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Lurker don’t believe what the anti-Mormon gang wants you to believe, that these links are empty. Far from it. They are full of truth.

Lurkers: Imagine you're enjoying this Christmas season a card game with friends & family...
...Say Uno...
...Or Crazy 8's...a card game involving a trump card.

We're sitting at the card table w/Paragon Defender. He tells us we need to transcend normal trump card games...
...So he pulls out his fancy deck of cards that on the surface seem professionally produced...but somehow conveys a shoddy product. We say, "OK. we'll try our hand at it."

We start playing. The deck he whips out has printed cards that read...
...Mormon scriptural sources...like "Book of Mormon" & "Pearl of Great Price" & "Doctrine & Covenants" & "Book of Abraham"
...+ "Official Lds Church Curricula"
...+ "Lds Priesthood manuals"
...+ "Official Lds Church Pamphlets"
...+ Books authored by Lds General Authorities -- including their "prophets" and "apostles" -- some published by the Lds church; most not
...+ "Journal of Discourses" of public messages & sermons by Lds General Authorities

Each time we play one of the above cards, PD turns to his laptop & prints out a "fresh" card that actually never varies: It's shaped like a spam can. It reads:

"Unofficial Lds Apologetics Web Sites Trump" card -- or what PD calls his, U.L.A.W.S.T. card.

When we ask for an Official copy of the rules of this game that allows him to treat this card as the "final authority" card; he just smiles and reassures us that this is the omnipotent trump card.

"There's nothing," says P.D. "more potent than Lds Apologetics Web site linkages."

"But Brigham says..."

"No...no..no," PD says, printing another spam card for extra emphasis. "This" -- he says with much pride -- "is the ultimate trump card."

"What?"

"We thought," we say, "that the 'Living prophet' was the ultimate trump card for this game? Wasn't this rule #3 of E.T. Benson's 14 'fundamentals'...that a 'living prophet' trumps a dead prophet?' And rule #2 a 'living prophet' trumps Mormon standard scriptures?"

"Yes, E.T. said that," says PD.

"So?"

"Well," PD says...smiling now. "E.T.'s dead."

You now have cute little stories in your repertoire?

The Church may not explain every little detail to your satisfaction. They have a lot more more important things to do than address the anti-Mormon ramblings constantly. The unofficial sites provide answers to some of your non-issues. Many of these answers are official, some are common-sense and some are very plausible answers.

No matter where they came from, the obsessed anti-Mormon activist crowd would not be happy with the answers.

Conclusion: Complaining that all of my links aren't "official" Church sites is just another in the long list of Non-Issues brought up by the anti-Gang. It's really all the gang has. Non-Issues.

Merry Christmas!