Comments on: Armaund Mauss Interview

By: Brad Kramer

Brad Kramer — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 01:28:30 +0000

Mostly, though, the hyperbole was just a rhetorical device designed to reinforce how pleased I was with the Mauss interview.

By: Brad Kramer

Brad Kramer — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 01:26:31 +0000

There was definitely some hyperbole there. Consider it a failed attempt at irony.

I’m immensely bothered by the specific phenomenon I singled out (expose-style attempts to uncover the inscrutably dark motives of authors not explicitly engaged in Mormon apologetics) — which, admittedly, constitutes a fairly small percentage of what FARMS puts out, most of which is, as you say, fairly straightforward and innocuous.

By: aquinas

aquinas — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:14:53 +0000

I've written my reactions here: Armand Mauss on Church and Society and Other Musings.

By: Clark

Clark — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:42:23 +0000

No hyperbole there Brad, is there? Sometimes I wonder about all the venom spewing against FARMS given that 95% of their stuff is pretty straightforward and innocuous.

By: Mark D.

Mark D. — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 05:55:57 +0000

s/Armaund/Armand/g

By: Nitsav

Nitsav — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 05:47:09 +0000

“With all the futile venom-spewing and fire-breathing coming out of the FARMS circles in their thinly-veiled chicken fight with anti-Mormon hackery, and all the financial, intellectual, and institutional resources committed to that rather murky enterprise”

That’s some nice caricature hyperbole Brad… Glad you like the interview. That blog puts up some good stuff.

By: Brad Kramer

Brad Kramer — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 03:59:13 +0000

With all the futile venom-spewing and fire-breathing coming out of the FARMS circles in their thinly-veiled chicken fight with anti-Mormon hackery, and all the financial, intellectual, and institutional resources committed to that rather murky enterprise, it’s refreshing (if somewhat sobering) to see how much good can come from someone like Mauss or Bushman just having a reasoned conversation with people asking reasonable questions. An interview like this is worth 100 articles exposing the secret motives of under-cover anti-Mormon authors.

(“A new book claims not to be anti-Mormon, and yes it is technically factually correct, but is it anti-Mormon propaganda anyway? Tune in at 10:00 and find out what our intrepid scholar-polemicists uncovered about what the author may have once said about the LDS Church”)