The Light and Truth Letter

My search for more light and truth.

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My loss of faith was gradual and then all at once. It felt like my whole world had turned upside down. My wife's reaction surprised me. She told me how excited she was for my faith journey.

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@TresClare Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.

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@SteelBlaidd @StephSandberg https://t.co/qzsmfkysWm

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@SteelBlaidd I love being endorsed by an apostle! 😏

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@surskitmaxxing @nephitejnf @sister_slay @BenBird53920553 Which do you find the least persuasive?

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If this is the best shot they got of me with 1 hour of footage, I'm in real trouble.

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@stackerco @_btcole If this was my whole argument about polygamy then you'd have a point. But this is one paragraph in an entire section about polygamy. I could soften the language "orgy" and add some qualifiers I suppose. Maybe the attached is a better opening to that section.

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@stackerco @_btcole You may be mixing up sections. This is a later section about polygamy. Perhaps I could say "some critics". I guess I trusted the reader by this point to understand that every critic is a little different and not all phrase things the same way.

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@stackerco @_btcole Remember you claimed I used a strawman but then turned around to use a whataboutism to deflect and divert.

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@stackerco @_btcole Mad respect for Vogel. While my letter addresses critics, I name CES Letter Foundation and Mormon Stories by name.

A letter to Vogel would understandably be different.

You think I should address only the best critics and give Dehlin and Runnells a pass?

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@stackerco @_btcole If your answer is that apologists use them too (so far the most common critical response) then we can talk about the logical fallacy you'll be using.

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@stackerco @_btcole Do you:

1. Think critics of the Church do not use manipulation tactics or logical fallacies? (Or not as many as I claim)

Or

2. Agree they use them but think I gave poor examples? I'm happy to provide more representative samples in an update if you provide them to me.

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@stackerco @_btcole I think we're comparing apples and oranges. Or tacos and pizza if you will.

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@seekingValimar When people in the scriptures speak in unison my temple ears perk up. See Mosiah 5.

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How come I never noticed this??

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@stackerco @_btcole You'll have to send me a video, I don't know the taco man but sounds like he has good taste in food.

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@stackerco @_btcole The reason this table resonates with people is because saints see all of them all of the time.

Plus, I don't refute the claims from the "strawman". I state a manipulation technique or fallacy and give a representative sample without debunking the claim within the example.

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@stackerco @_btcole I see almost every example in the table daily on X and Reddit alone. They are representative examples of the type of hostility any Latter-Day Saint experiences online nearly every day.

Name one you've never seen before from critics.

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@busy_bee_me The QR codes inside will take you to the audiobook. I'm a big audiobook guy so I get it!