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1. The observation of an outsider with “no dog in the fight” is less relevant than the fiercely held biases of the opinionated.

LOL, feeling left out? I would prefer at least intelligent input rather than the broad brush bleats you've posted.

2. Keeping people from learning about mormonism from mormons is preferable. Precisely how you would like others to learn about your faith, or professional skills, or political views, etc., I presume.

ROTFLAICGU. nando buddy, if you've followed any of these threads, 90% of the time the articles posted are from MORMON sources and sites. The comparison is like this nando, mormonism is like a car, the salesman makes his alluring pitch for the latest and greatest zoom 5000. Do you accept him at his word? Or do you check out consumer reports, car and driver, customer satisifaction sites, etc to see what those who do not have a vested interest in selling you that car have to say? So if an individual wants to examine mormon sources, they can at least do so in a more informed manner.

Secondly, it is like pulling hens teeth to get mormons to stand up and actually ellucidate what their doctrines are. If you follow threads, we often cite mormon doctrines to supliment what mormons claim to be doctrine. So to say that keeping knowledge of mormonism away from investigators just isn't borne out by facts - we use mormon source doctinal statement a lot.

3. Protecting agnostics from the danger of mormonism is less important than protecting anyone else from the same.

Not at all, the compare and contrast methods I generally use are more than suitable to inform an agnostic like you.

4. You are taking credit for people making highly personal decisions about their faith. On the internet.

I take no credit, just voicing the testimonies of those here who have gotten out of mormonism after being challenged here in FR.

If god really wanted everyone to be christian he would have left jesus all resurrected and immortal on the earth forever and ever. [Naturally, I don’t really want an answer from you. This question is purely in satisfaction of my urge to ask something that I think is clever.]

Not very clever, but worthy of an answer just the same. Unfortunately, a full and complete answer would be the size of a book, and I'm not up to that level of detail right now. But specifically on the point of If god really wanted everyone to be christian he would have left jesus all resurrected and immortal on the earth forever and ever, Jesus' presence here in that fashion is not necessary for 'everyone' to become a Christian. Salvation is by faith nando, and the scriptures, the guidance of the Holy Spirit, the facts and evidences of the truth of the gospel message and the touch of God on one's life are more than sufficient.