RE: [AML] Beck, Leaving the Saints

I wasn't fooled by her either, Thom. That's my point. :-)

Marianne Hales Harding

>I wasn't fooled by her claims to authority. Had she been a professional
>sociologist, I might have paid attention.
>
>Thom Duncan replies to:
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>com] On Behalf Of Marianne Hales Harding
> >Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 2:51 AM
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> >Subject: RE: [AML] Beck, Leaving the Saints
> >
> >>Why do we have to, unless the book proclaims itself as THE definitive
> >>book on such-and-such. When John Sorenson writes a book on Book of
> >>Mormon geography, I'm going to expect serious research (that I can
> >>duplicate if I chose). When a person writes a personal memoir, I'm
> >>really not expecting to read anything other than their own
> >experiences.
> >
> >Thom, crack that book open again! She is constantly saying,
> >in essence, "Here are all of my professional credentials."
> >(she spouts her credentials a
> >lot) "I am logically and honestly telling you important things
> >that you should believe and act upon." I think we make
> >judgements about the reliability of the narrator in any book
> >we read, but in a book like this, where she is constantly
> >trying to establish herself as a reliable narrator (i.e. the
> >many references to her logical brain and her sociological
> >training) and where she is, admittedly, trying to "open our
> >eyes" to a particular problem or incident...well you'd have to
> >be pretty naive to take her at face value without even once
> >testing her claim that she is a reliable narrator. Where's
> >your Mormon Training, my friend? Martha herself said that the
> >problem with Mormonism is that it teaches you to seek your own
> >revelation on the truth of it (and then true revelation tells
> >you it is false). So I guess Martha told me, "Look at this
> >logically and then you'll see you can trust me." Problem was,
> >I looked at it logically and found I couldn't trust her.
> >
> >Marianne Hales Harding
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