It is well-known that politics can be divisive. This is especially true in our current climate of distrust, class division, and demonization of political opponents. In LDS Church meetings the general understanding is “We shouldn’t discuss politics in Church.” This frequently heard statement is based on a vague sense of an actual Church policy (which, … Read more
Republicans frequently employ the informal fallacy. This category of faulty reasoning includes such problems as ad hominem (personal) attacks, begging the question, equivocation, false dilemma, faulty analogy, inconsistency and more. (Here is an interesting list). Informal fallacies are not fallacies of logic (those are called formal fallacies). Rather, they are fallacies caused by faulty premises … Read more
Words are important. They not only record and explain reality, they actually create reality. In fact, words are so important that “the Word” is actually one of the names of Jesus Christ. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.The same was in the beginning with … Read more
In the library (and on the internet) in Heaven, all questions of fact will be answered completely truthfully. Those who write the books and post the data will be Celestial beings who have passed this Earthly test of character and who will never lie or have cause to deceive. When it comes to matters of … Read more
We in the United States like to think that we live in a representative democracy. We are attracted to Lincoln’s optimistic idea that America stands for “government of the people, by the people, and for the people” We have been taught that, despite the wrangling that occurs, our political processes eventually result in government policies … Read more