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Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director/Debunking FairMormon
A FairMormon Analysis of "Debunking FAIR’s Debunking" (also known as "Debunking FairMormon" - from the author of the Letter to a CES Director)
A FAIR Analysis of: Letter to a CES Director A work by author: Jeremy Runnells
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Does FairMormon agree with a large percentage of the claims made in the Letter to the CES Director?
Jeremy Runnells has claimed that FairMormon has agreed with him on a large percentage of various claims he has made, even going so far as to claim agreement on items that FairMormon did not respond to. With regard to historical facts, Mr. Runnells's citations are sometimes incorrect and his interpretations, even of correctly cited historical facts, are unwarranted. In short, FairMormon disagrees entirely with the conclusions reached by Jeremy Runnells.
Jeremy Runnells has claimed that FairMormon has agreed with him on a large percentage of various claims he has made, even going so far as to claim agreement on items that FairMormon did not respond to. With regard to historical facts, Mr. Runnells's citations are sometimes incorrect and his interpretations, even of correctly cited historical facts, are unwarranted. In short, FairMormon disagrees entirely with the conclusions reached by Jeremy Runnells.
Overview
Approximately eight or nine months after we produced our original response to the Letter to a CES Director, the author produced an apologetic called Debunking FAIR's Debunking, later changed to Debunking FairMormon. Much of the material is simply an incorporation of our original summary responses to the individual issues, and the author's reassertion of his original claims. Our original summary responses to most of these issues have now been incorporated into the text of the full wiki articles that are now transcluded into the CES Letter response. There are, however, some new claims that originated in direct response to FairMormon. In this page we will highlight only new individual items which were not covered in the original CES Letter response. For convenience, these responses to Debunking FairMormon are also included in the list of responses to the original, and various updates, of the CES Letter.
Detailed responses to "Debunking FAIR’s Debunking" (also known as "Debunking FairMormon" - from the author of the Letter to a CES Director) by section are found in linked subarticles below
Response to section "Book of Mormon Concerns & Questions"
Response to section "Book of Mormon Translation Concerns & Questions"
Response to section "First Vision Concerns & Questions"
Response to section "Polygamy/Polyandry Concerns & Questions"
Response to section "Prophets Concerns & Questions"
Response to section "Kinderhook Plates and Translator/Seer Claims Concerns & Questions"
Response to section "Witnesses Concerns & Questions"
Response to section "Temples & Freemasonry Concerns & Questions"
Response to section "Science Concerns & Questions"
Response to section "Other Concerns & Questions"
Response to section "Conclusion"
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