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'The Mormon Illusion,' by Floyd C. McElveen (1980)
0 of 1 found this helpful I bought this book because I collect Anti-Mormon publications. My review of the book is:
It is difficult to see the 'classic' status that is claimed for McElveen's rehash of old charges brought against Mormonism, precisely because it is only a re-hash of all the claims that have been made against Mormons for almost two centuries.
Apart from a childish argumentative style, McElveen's magnum opus is so lacking in verifiable references that it cannot be made to make a case against the Mormon religion.
McElveen fails to refer to the robust rebuttals and arguments from Mormon scholars and historians that have shown the falsity of the claims he repeats from the usual Anti-Mormon sources, and his failure washes away his foundation of sand, leaving his theories unsupported.
McElveen is of the class of Anti-Mormons that rely almost exclusively on copying material published by those who entered the field before he threw his hat into the ring.
Sadly, despite its publicity, 'The Mormon Illusion' contains nothing new, nothing enlightening, and consistently fails to understand what Mormons believe and why, thus presenting an outsiders perspective of a Christian denomination that he has neither experienced or understood.
The book's language and arguments are pedagogic and lack substance.
McElveen is a 'Conservative Baptist Home Society' pastor that ministered in some Alaska, Idaho, and other western states with Mormon populations. It is said,
"He has worked with and loved the Mormon people ... "
The book is described by a non-Mormon as,
"Candid, discerning, knowledgable [sic], well documented, [and] challenges LDS people to honestly rely on facts not shakey [sic] feelings, and to serve the scriptures - the Holy Bible, the Word of God."
McElveen sits inside the camp of those that are actively hostile to Mormonism, but outside the camp of the knowledgeable in all things Mormon, in addition to his misuse of the Holy Bible in his futile efforts to present Mormonism and Mormons as things they clearly are not.
It is sad that McElveen makes so much of his putative 'love' for Mormons, and then goes to work in the first few pages proving that his love is of no more depth than the skin on a rice pudding.
His mind is fundamentalist in which saying something makes it true without supporting argument. Not only does McElveen fail to adequately analyse Mormon history, he also lifts it in large chunks from such failed 'scholars' as the Tanners, and Wesley P Walters, and other books by anti-Mormons, without taking anything from Mormon writers except a sentence here, or half a sentence there, with no context and no contrary opinions.
Bearing in mind that we are to forgive 'zeal without knowledge' fundamentalists, this author makes no pretence at textual, historic, or theological analysis, yet he pretends that he is doing so.
His 'proof from the Bible that Mormonism is false' is a few minute verses from here and there, again without context or evidence that he knows their background, &c, and without exhibiting exegetical abilities.
I have read other reviewers that praise this book to the mountain tops, but they are all of McElveen's ilk and are as ensnared in anti-Mormon propaganda as he and his referents are.
This book was not written by one that has regard for truth, nor one that will rigorously endeavour to determine where truth lies. I do not ask McElveen to 'love' Mormons, but why does he refuse to write the truth, and not foolishness?