Mormon Apologetics: The Problems | Ep. 1822 | LDS Discussions Ep. 46

Mormon apologetics have been around ever since Mormonism has existed. Join with Mike, Nemo and John as they discuss the types of apologetics that members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints engage in and why they are all flawed.

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Chapters
00:00:00 Introduction
00:06:50 Defining apologetics
00:15:15 Using academic/secular credentials to push theology
00:24:50 The past is a foreign country
00:32:50 Misusing a quote to accomplish the goal of shutting down the conversation
00:42:30 Following the footnotes
00:52:15 Cherry picking and misusing sources
00:54:15 Look at how the church cut the quote within the actual quote
00:57:30 The use of the “Happiness Letter” without any context
01:01:00 How could Joseph Smith have ever known?!?!
01:16:30 Parallelomania and the hunt for bullseyes
01:30:15 Stacking the equation to force the data to give the conclusion
01:34:45 Using strawman arguments to slay your opponents
01:44:50 Lying for the Lord
01:50:00 M. Russell Ballard’s 2016 address to CES Instructors
01:57:15 Speaking/acting as a man - “Give Joseph a break”
02:02:15 Are they speaking as prophets or as men?
02:09:45 Being intellectually consistent when making arguments
02:18:00 John Hamer explains the problem with apologetics quite succinctly
02:22:40 Why apologetics can be so harmful
02:24:30 Bart Ehrman summarized the problem with apologetics quite well
02:28:00 It’s not apologetics that are inherently bad…but how they’re used
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