{"id":1172,"date":"2004-08-12T15:57:18","date_gmt":"2004-08-12T19:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2009-01-16T17:04:56","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T21:04:56","slug":"the-muslim-anti-mormons-are-catching-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2004\/08\/the-muslim-anti-mormons-are-catching-up\/","title":{"rendered":"The Muslim Anti-Mormons are Catching Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mormoninquiry.typepad.com\/mormon_inquiry\/2004\/08\/random_reflecti.html\">Via Dave&#8217;s<\/a>, I noticed a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairlds.com\/pubs\/conf\/2003PetD.html\">Dan Peterson FAIR Conference paper with a fun anecdote<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><i>Let me tell you about an experience I had a few years ago. I was invited to do a Muslim\/Mormon dialogue up at Idaho State in Pocatello. . . . The closer it got, the more awkward I felt about this upcoming &#8220;dialogue.&#8221; There were just some things about it that didn&#8217;t add up, and I began to feel that something was seriously wrong. When I got there I realized that it was. The room was absolutely jammed with Muslim anti-Mormon tracts. I hadn&#8217;t even known that such a thing existed. I can report to you, by the way, that they weren&#8217;t very good. They need to take a page from some of our Evangelical critics who can mount much better arguments than the ones they had. Nevertheless, it was a first step and you have to admire them for trying.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Dave&#8217;s, I noticed a Dan Peterson FAIR Conference paper with a fun anecdote: Let me tell you about an experience I had a few years ago. I was invited to do a Muslim\/Mormon dialogue up at Idaho State in Pocatello. . . . The closer it got, the more awkward I felt about this upcoming &#8220;dialogue.&#8221; There were just some things about it that didn&#8217;t add up, and I began to feel that something was seriously wrong. When I got there I realized that it was. The room was absolutely jammed with Muslim anti-Mormon tracts. I hadn&#8217;t even known that such a thing existed. I can report to you, by the way, that they weren&#8217;t very good. They need to take a page from some of our Evangelical critics who can mount much better arguments than the ones they had. Nevertheless, it was a first step and you have to admire them for trying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5516,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions\/5516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}