“Answering Letter To A CES Director – # 1”

There have been many responses from believers to Jeremy Runnells’s unfortunate (and, in too many cases, unfortunately destructive) Letter to a CES Director, an unoriginal grab-bag of attacks on Latter-day Saint belief and the claims of the Restoration.

Here, for example, is a transcript of my own hasty fifty-minute reaction to the Letter at the 2014 FairMormon conference.

And here is a section of the FairMormon website devoted to the Letter, the effect of which has been far greater, in my judgment, than its quality merits.

And here’s a reply from someone who goes by the nom de guerre of “Stallion Cornell.”

I’m sure that there are others.  Unfortunately, although (since it’s had an impact on too many people) I know that I should give the Letter more attention than I have, I just haven’t been able, thus far, to muster much enthusiasm for doing so.  I found reading it excruciating and exasperating, rather like the infamous Chinese water torture.

Here though, Tarik LaCour, a very bright fellow, commences another response:

http://tarikdlacour.blogspot.ie/2017/02/answering-letter-to-ces-director-1.html

It will be interesting to watch as he proceeds.

Posted from Waikoloa, Hawaii