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To: tantiboh
~”Posing a very vulnerable strawman to attack is a Mormon tactic we’ve become very familiar with at FR over the past several weeks.”~

Oh, a straw man argument? Let’s see:
“A straw man argument is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent’s position. To “set up a straw man” or “set up a straw man argument” is to create a position that is easy to refute, then attribute that position to the opponent.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

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Just watch the “straw man” postings telling the world about how we, as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, believe. Then, to divert attention from there activities, they say the old line of “look at them, not at what we are doing”.

408 posted on 01/14/2008 11:51:47 PM PST by fproy2222 (Study both sides.)
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To: fproy2222

Sorry, I mistakenly left you out of the more sacks ping. I’ll correct that in the future.


411 posted on 01/15/2008 8:07:49 AM PST by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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