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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
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.
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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. We have updated the original article responses to incorporate new evidence that the author of the CES Letter marshaled to attempt to bolster his original claims. Additionally, we have responded to new claims that appeared from the author that were not included in neither the original CES Letter, our response to it, nor the subsequent editions of the CES Letter. In this page we will highlight only new individual items which were not covered in the original CES Letter response (but as stated before, we have updated other articles to respond to other evidence covering the same claims). 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"

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Response to section "Book of Mormon Translation Concerns & Questions"

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Response to section "First Vision Concerns & Questions"

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Response to section "Polygamy/Polyandry Concerns & Questions"

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Response to section "Prophets Concerns & Questions"

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Response to section "Kinderhook Plates and Translator/Seer Claims Concerns & Questions"

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Response to section "Testimony/Spiritual Witness Concerns & Questions"

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Response to section "Priesthood Restoration Concerns & Questions"

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Response to section "Witnesses Concerns & Questions"

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Response to section "Temples & Freemasonry Concerns & Questions"

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Response to section "Science Concerns & Questions"

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Response to section "Other Concerns & Questions"

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Response to section "Conclusion"

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