Andrew Sullivan responds to our piece in the Washington Post on the alleged “cultishness” of Mormonism here. It’s an interesting discussion, and Sullivan is game to continue it. But his resistance to our Mormon mind-meld techniques displeases us, so we’ll keep up the brainwashing attack.
Sullivan begins by saying that we were “offended” by his raising the question of “Mormonism’s cultish qualities.” Let us be clear: we’re not offended. (It takes a lot more than that.) Sullivan hasn’t hurt our feelings; he has, rather, committed some errors in logic that we’re seeking to correct. Claiming that someone is offended is an easy way of discounting their arguments as subjective and emotional. We’re not seeking an apology from Sullivan for offending us; we’re hoping to see him use better logic and information in his frequent discussion of Mormonism.
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