As a freshman at the University of Southern California, I was first exposed to what was then commonly referred to as “anti-Mormon literature.” (*I’m not sure what the post-Mormon term for it is now, but you probably know what I’m talking about.) I read “The Godmakers” from cover to cover, which described a church with […]
Continue readingSo as part of the Latter-day Saint Survey Project, I’m going to serialize my updated response to the CES Letter, and I’m going to use each post to create a topic and a camp for discussion here at Canonizer. I begin with my 2018 foreword: Jeremy Runnells does not like me. And, really, can you […]
Continue readingSo I had an ulterior motive in publishing my CES Letter Reply here at Canonizer.com. My goal is to use it as the catalyst to launch the Latter-day Saint Survey Project, which I believe has the pave the way for a new way to gauge public opinion and, ultimately, change the world. A tall order, […]
Continue readingIn April of 2016, I published a document online called “A Reply from a Former CES Employee.” It was a response to the infamous “Letter to a CES Director,” colloquially known as the “CES Letter,” that has become a sort of pseudo-scripture, or perhaps anti-scripture, for former members of The Church of Jesus Christ of […]
Continue readingSo my first Canonizer.com post that I linked to my Facebook page did somewhat what I expected it would do – it generated a furious Facebook thread that, alas, did not lead anyone to actually use the Canonizer website. We’re trying to figure out how to make the user interface more user friendly in order […]
Continue readingSo this post selfishly serves two purposes. The first is that I am being repeatedly asked, publicly and privately, what I think of the smoldering ruins of decency that used to be the Kavanaugh nomination. Since I am white, male, and privileged as they come, I know everything I say is immediately suspect, and I’m […]
Continue readingSeveral years back, Utah passed a bill that allows schools to stop teaching sex ed. From the Salt Lake Tribune: “To replace the parent in the school setting, among people who we have no idea what their morals are, we have no ideas what their values are, yet we turn our children over to them […]
Continue readingAl Gore is making news again, insisting that Trump hasn’t been all that bad – or at he “has had less of an impact so far than [Gore] feared that he would.” What does that mean, exactly? What on earth could Trump have done to the climate in two years, even if he had deliberately […]
Continue readingDonald Trump’s position on immigration is the primary reason I am no longer a Republican, but the immigration issue has long been a wedge between my personal position and the stance of the GOP. The thought of giving amnesty to lawbreakers enrages Republicans, yet they label any attempt to deal with the issue as amnesty, […]
Continue readingA Jewish friend of mine who is no fan of Trump posted a Facebook status update asking people to refrain from comparing Trump to Hitler. Acknowledging the fact that Trump was awful, she called it disrespectful to the millions of people slaughtered by the Nazis to equate Trump’s current evils with Hitler’s exponentially more monstrous […]
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