![]() It doesn’t follow from the fact that some furry animals are squirrels that ALL furry animals are squirrels. The fact that people sometimes see illusions doesn’t mean that everything that people see is illusory. The fact that people sometimes see things that aren’t there by no means proves, in any given case, that what a particular person has claimed to see isn’t there. If it’s intended as an argument, however, it’s an obviously fallacious one. It’s not clear, though, whether he regards what he has just said as an argument. (Plainly, he regards both UFO abductions and Bigfoot sightings as obviously false and ridiculous but such claims are not my topic here.) Their accounts, he says, are no more valid than are the accounts of people who say they’ve been abducted by space aliens aboard UFOS, or that they’ve seen Bigfoot. The exchange begins when the one who, I think, has not watched the film denigrates the testimonies of the Book of Mormon witnesses. But I was disappointed in reading what both of them had to say. I know the real-life identity of one of them, and I happen to know that he has seen “Witnesses.” The other, I’m reasonably certain, has not. My attention was recently caught by an online exchange (explicitly responding to the “Witnesses” film project) between two anonymous but deeply disaffected members (or ex-members) of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. But I have a specific reason for wanting to comment on the topic again, right now: I’ve found their testimony compelling for many decades, since long before my involvement with the “Witnesses” film project, and I fervently believe that others should, as well. I can’t promise that it will be the last time that I do so. It’s a dramatic story, and a deeply significant one.īut I want in this column to return to the Book of Mormon witnesses. The nature and the future of the Church was hanging in the balance. And the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, led by Elder Brigham Young, asserted apostolic leadership. Sidney Rigdon put himself forward as a “guardian” for the Church in Joseph’s absence. Now, we’re beginning to pivot toward our next film project, which we’re calling “Six Days in August,” and which will focus on the question of succession following the assassination of Joseph Smith by an anti-Mormon mob in late June 1844 ( ).
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