“‘When the prophet says it, that settles it’? Refuting an Evangelical Anti-Mormon”

The impressively energetic and prolific Irish Latter-day Saint Robert Boylan takes on a common anti-Mormon charge:

http://scripturalmormonism.blogspot.com/2017/03/when-prophet-says-it-that-settles-it.html

A strain of anti-Mormonism common to both the evangelical and secular species of that remarkable disorder is the claim that Latter-day Saints are, as Rush Limbaugh would put it, “mind-numbed robots.”  That we can’t think for ourselves.  Or, in one variant, that to some substantial degree at least, we’re believers because we’re sheltered from the wider world out there, ignorant, intellectually timid, incurious, shallow, provincial, perhaps even stupid.

That’s certainly all true of me, of course — though a considerable element of sheer mean-spirited and depraved hatred has to be factored into my case in order to understand me accurately, along with mercenary greed (because the Church pays me a huge salary to do apologetics) — but I don’t believe that it can plausibly be said of my Glaubensgenossen.  And I launched Mormon Scholars Testify, in part, as a response to the allegation.

Speaking of which:  I simply haven’t had time to do anything with Mormon Scholars Testify for many, many months now.  (Historically, I’ve recruited every single entry that’s there, prepared almost all of the biographies, and edited every single submission for posting.  The incredibly efficient Tanya Spackman has then actually put them up.)  But I would like, if possible, to start the site growing again.  I know that there are several faithful Latter-day Saint academics and scientists out there among even the readers of this blog who haven’t contributed yet to Mormon Scholars Testify.  I hope that they will consider doing so.  And I would really appreciate some assistance with recruiting and preparing future entries.  If you’re positioned to help with the first task, please do help.  Invite others in your network of friends and acquaintances to submit testimonies.  And if you would like to help edit and prepare such entries — a quite distinct job — I invite you to step forward, as well.  Thanks.