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Kathryn Jenk­ins Gor­don recent­ly read through the Book of Mor­mon with a dis­tinct pur­pose: I want­ed to deter­mine how many evi­dences were found in the Book of Mor­mon itself sup­port­ing the fact that it was trans­lat­ed from an ancient doc­u­ment and not writ­ten by Joseph Smith in the ear­ly 19<sup…

This last week­end I watched the doc­u­men­tary Going Clear. I have heard and read some about Sci­en­tol­ogy before the doc­u­men­tary, and so I knew to expect there to be some strong sim­i­lar­i­ties between Sci­en­tol­ogy and Mor­monism. I rec­om­mend every­one, faith­ful or not, see the doc­u­men­tary. It does a great job… 

A com­mon obser­va­tion of Mor­mon apolo­get­ics, and Fair­Mor­mon in par­tic­u­lar, is that their expla­na­tions are rarely inter­nal­ly con­sis­tent. The expla­na­tion for one issue con­tra­dicts or con­flicts with the expla­na­tion for anoth­er issue. Some­times, it does­n’t mat­ter much that they con­tra­dict each oth­er. Oth­er times, they real­ly do dam­age to their argu­ments. One case…