Have you noticed that there are different posters posting similar types of posts on the various threads?
I’m getting the impression that the apologists are trying to use the tactics described to stop the posting of such material in the RF by making those of us who disagree with mormonism get off topic and get bogged down in defensive tactics.
Just some random thoughts and observations.
Summarized Mormon apologetic strategies as follows:
• Deny - until the facts overwhelm.
• Attack - the sources, the critic, anything to change the subject of
discussion.
• Use the “Personal Defense” – A clever variation on “Attack” which
shifts the focus to the hard-done-by apologist and away from the
substance of the debate. The apologist might all but make up an
attack against himself, for example, and use attack language toward
himself, as if the critic had said it, and then shift into a Personal
Defense.
• Accept and Reject - essentially the “so what” defense, regardless of
the merit of the evidence rejected.
• Assert Victory - this includes “victory” over the factual information that
was never reasonably refuted.
• Refuse Re-engagement - once victory is declared, continued debate
can be declared irrelevant.
• Emphasize Feelings – bear testimony based on feelings. This shifts the
argument out of the objective into the subjective. Facts become
relative to perspective. There can be no rational argument on this
basis.
Of course I do see every removed thread as a victory. If the LDS was winning the argument in the thread they would want it to remain for all to see.
When would be a good time for a couple of our well-trained young missionaries to stop by your home and more fully explain the Restored Gospel® to you?)