[Paragon Defender]

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!

[Colofornian]

The Church may not explain every little detail to your satisfaction. They have a lot more more important things to do than address...anti-Mormon[s]...constantly.

(Yeah, we know, PD. Did you forget that the SL Trib columnist, Lds member Robert Kirby let us on that reality from less than two months ago?)

Here, I'll remind you what Kirby said:

In sacrament meeting last week, the bishop got up and announced he had received a letter from the First Presidency. As he prepared to read it, the congregation perked up. Moments like this are always attention-getters for Mormons. Normally, we get direction from the top during General Conference. Occasionally something can’t wait and it comes in the form of an official letter from the brethren telling us to start (or stop) doing something....The letter...told/counseled rank-and-file Mormons to stop pestering church headquarters for clarification of church doctrine. Apparently some members get so stressed about the finer points of doctrine that they’ll fire off a letter asking for the final word. Church HQ can’t handle the demand...According to the First Presidency’s letter, members with real doctrinal concerns were to seek the counsel of our local leaders — stake president, bishop, Scoutmaster, building custodian, etc.
Source: Kirby: Wrestling with doctrine no match for me

So, ya see, PD...it's not just what you deem as "anti-Mormon" queries...LDS CHURCH HQ can't handle the internal demand, either!

My conclusion when this column broke was:

Ah, the Internet is doing its job. So many questions are being raised by non-Mormons of Mormons, that the answers aren't there. Non-Mormons want answers. Grassroots Mormons are being deluged with such questions; hence, they, in turn seek answers from their authorities. Yet when non-Mormons ask these same kind of doctrinal questions, what do some online lds apologists do? Why, they send them to lds.org and the First Presidency of the lds church.

Then what happens when the First Presidency of the church gets besieged by these doctrinal questions -- whether they come indirectly through their own members or more directly from inquirers? Why, the First Presidency sends a Fall, 2010 missive to all their sacrament meetings around the world, telling them to stop sending their doctrinal questions to them because they can't handle most of them!

Merry TrueChristmas, PD!

[svcw]

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.

Fantastic news PD.

I am really happy that you are publicly stating that quotes from non affiliated non official lds sites are permissible as it is a non issue. So quotes from non official non affiliated sites are just as valuable and informative as official affiliated sites.

Wow. That probably was really hard for you to give up. Thanks.

[Elsie]

You now have cute little stories in your repertoire?

AHEM!

According to the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life’s monumental “U.S. Religious Landscape Survey” that was issued in June, 21% of self-proclaimed atheists believe in either a personal God or an impersonal force. Ten percent of atheists pray at least weekly and 12% believe in heaven.

[Elsie]

Many of these answers are official, some are common-sense and some are very plausible answers.

The OTHER 101% are circular logic and rabbit trails.

[T Minus Four]

It's really all the gang has. Non-Issues

I think that Jesus being a created being and God being a former human are very concrete issues.