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Grant Palmer update?
Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 4:28 am
by _harmony
From Meridian magazine:
Instead the Book of Mormon is breezily dismissed by Grant Palmer, an excommunicant, who calls it a piece right out of the 19th century and an archaeologist who says there is no evidence for it in Central America. Discussion ended.
source:
http://www.ldsmag.com/arts/070504pbs2.html
Was Palmer ex'ed? I thought he was just disfellowshipped. Or is this author incorrect?
Re: Grant Palmer update?
Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 4:44 am
by _Seven
harmony wrote:From Meridian magazine:
Instead the Book of Mormon is breezily dismissed by Grant Palmer, an excommunicant, who calls it a piece right out of the 19th century and an archaeologist who says there is no evidence for it in Central America. Discussion ended.
source:
http://www.ldsmag.com/arts/070504pbs2.htmlWas Palmer ex'ed? I thought he was just disfellowshipped. Or is this author incorrect?
Going off RFM threads about him a year ago, he was never exd according to the people who knew of him. It was stated that he was disfellowshipped but I have no posts saved on it. Unless something changed recently, I am unsure why Meridian refers to him that way.
Re: Grant Palmer update?
Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 6:06 am
by _moksha
Seven wrote:Going off RFM threads about him a year ago, he was never exd according to the people who knew of him. It was stated that he was disfellowshipped but I have no posts saved on it. Unless something changed recently, I am unsure why Meridian refers to him that way.
I suspect Meridian likes to take a more faith-promoting approach to history. In our reality however, Brother Palmer was disfellowshiped for a certain period of time.
Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 11:21 am
by _truth dancer
I have spoken with Grant on several occasions, and have discussed this topic. Unless something happened recently, he was "just" disfellowshipped.
~dancer~
Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 4:41 pm
by _harmony
Maybe one of our more TBM posters could follow up with Meridian, and tell them they're publishing false information.
Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 4:42 pm
by _Runtu
harmony wrote:Maybe one of our more TBM posters could follow up with Meridian, and tell them they're publishing false information.
To quote George Costanza: "It isn't a lie if you believe it."
Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 5:00 pm
by _harmony
Runtu wrote:harmony wrote:Maybe one of our more TBM posters could follow up with Meridian, and tell them they're publishing false information.
To quote George Costanza: "It isn't a lie if you believe it."
In publishing, that philosophy will get you sued. I'd want that cleared up, if I was Palmer.
Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 6:33 pm
by _Sethbag
There's a lot of mileage to be gotten out of this little "mistake". To someone interested in defending the church, defusing the arguments of someone who criticizes it can be helped immensely if you can point to that person's having been excommunicated. Everyone on this board knows that a lot of not most chapel Mormons will nearly automatically reject anything said by an excommunicant or apostate about the church, assuming, as they do, that it must be just a malicious lie by someone who can leave the church, but who can't leave it alone.