Posted on 06/10/2007 7:24:29 PM PDT by Reaganesque
Name one of those “lies” the Tanner’s are making a living from. Just one. Any one will do.
BTW, anyone can go to the Tanner’s home and bookstore. They are very modest people with a very modest income that they work very hard at making (they are hard working, honest people). Tanner’s morality would match up to yours or Mitt Romney’s any day. AND they are Christian.
Good people like this should not have to be slimed by the likes of those who will do and say anything in order to get flipping Mitt nominated. It is very disturbing.
There should be consultants from BOTH sides offering historical facts. This movie is not another exercise in Mormon propaganda, now is it. Are you upset that the movie producers didn’t hire Bonneville Communications and their tradmarked “Heartfelt” approach to truth dissemination?
I think Reaganesque sum Tanners very well!
Having Sandra Tanner as a consultant on a movie about Mormons would be like having David Duke as a consultant on a movie about Martin Luther King, Jr.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1848135/posts?page=60#60
I’ve asked you to list one lie. Can you do it?
Yes they do, but then serious Catholics, Evangelicals and Jews all have similar attitudes, and not without good reason. When raising a family, similarity of convictions is quite helpful.
Keep up the good work, cc. You’re doing a great job for your side.
Not every non mormon sings their praises like you or Ed Decker.
Lawrence Foster, an associate professor of American history at Georgia Institute of Technology, a scholar who is non-Mormon and who has spent a decade in intensive work on Mormonsim, has said of the Tanners:
“Until they are prepared to abide by accepted standards of scholarly behavior and common courtesy, they can expect little sympathy from serious historians,” and “the Tanners’ own work falls short of history.” Foster also stated, “The Tanners have repeatedly assumed a holier-than-thou stance, refusing to be fair in applying the same debate standard of absolute rectitude which they demand of Mormonism to their own actions, writings, and beliefs.” Foster gives the Tanners credit for publishing old LDS documents, “but criticizes them for using unauthorized materials which have been acquired leaving much to be desired, ethically speaking.” The Tanners often publish “scholarly works of living individuals without their permission, because the end (destroying Mormonism) justifies the means.” Foster continues, “The Tanners seem to be playing a skillful shell game in which the premises for judgement are conveniently shifted so that the conclusion is always the same—negative.”
Foster also quoted another Tanner critic who said:
“Jerald and Sandra Tanner have read widely enough in the sources of LDS history to provide that [larger] perspective, but they do not. Although the most conscientious and honest researcher can overlook pertinent sources of information, the repeated omissions of evidence by the Tanners suggest an intentional avoidance of sources that modify or refute their caustic interpretation of Mormon history.” (”Career Apostates,”dialogue,summer 1984,pp.35-60)
you say some of the kookiest things CC each Church is entitled on how they understand the Word of God!
At least I don’t lie.
Jon Voight said he had no idea who that was.
Just to be clear, she was not involved.
But the Tanners do!
Any idea who that "other" critic was?
This is typical LDS tactic. Can't discuss the issues of a movie about MMM, so they first accuse producers of getting infromation from Saundra Tanner (not verified whatsoever), and then continue an assualt on the integrity of the Tanners. For just once can you guys actually support your positions without attacking the credibility of someone else or calling someone a bigot?
Really, I'm starting to wonder.
Jerald Tanner died last year.
Still waiting resty....
....one lie?
Any lie?
It’s very easy to call names, but it is more difficult to prove it. You up to the task?
LOL! Cha Ching! That had to hurt.
I know but the creeps spirit lives on!:)
Nope, there is plenty more though. I know they are your heros for starting lighthouse ministries, but you really should research their history as much as you do your former Church’s history.
Is this an example of the “truth” we will find on LDS.org?
Do you care to discuss it? Do you even recognize the lie that is told here about Zina Diantha Huntington Young?
http://www.lds.org/pa/display/0,17884,5511-1,00.html
Nice change of subject. NOT
Any comment?
Should we let the inmates run the jail? Should we let Mormons be the only ones to disseminate information about their own history?
Is this what is to be expected?
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