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Explanation and Disclaimer: Worst of the Anti-Mormon
Web asks the question: How come Loftes
Tryk is not on the web?
If you are humor-impaired, leave immediately. This is not for the faint-of-heart, the thin-skinned, or especially humorless anti-Mormons. If you are a humorless anti-Mormon, this site is intended to mock you—I am laughing at you. Worst of the Anti-Mormon Web appears each Tuesday of the week. Twice a week was just a bit too much work. Need to see the archive editions? Click back there. Confused by what you see? Did you think that this site would be 1) full of anti-Mormon stuff beating up on helpless Mormons or 2) full of Latter-day Saint stuff beating up on antis? Be sure to read the Infrequently Asked Questions. And please be sure to read it before you blast some email my way. I know reading is tough and the web does nothing to encourage attention spans, but I am confident that everyone who can handle a browser can read and understand this short file. (For those who want to object to this outrageous claim, I can only counter that there is no real evidence that Ed Decker or John L. Smith surf the web.) Questions, comments, criticism? Want to submit your favorite bigoted, biased anti-Mormon site for a glorious "WORST" award? Send email to Gary Novak [Gary is no longer accepting e-mail regarding this site]. If you are an incensed anti-Mormon, please please, please send me email. I will be only too glad to post your note here [defunct].
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Worst of the Anti-Mormon Web
One of my readers—okay, my reader— recently wondered
why the Worst has not been updated in over a month.
In my defense I can only say that I have a couple of other
projects that I need to get completed before I can get back
to shouting the deeds of the seedy underworld of the worst
of the anti-Mormon web from the rooftops.
And to make matters worse, as if that is possible, it now
turns out that Loftes Tryk,
of all people, is now on the web. So now the primary reason
for the existence of this site must be questioned.
So you want to know something about Loftes Tryk (pronounced
"trick," I am told)? How about a guided tour of
his website?
Tryk is nothing if not a novel and creative interpreter of
the Book of Mormon. Notice the exquisite artwork in this
sketch
of Nephi's life.
Hard to believe, but the sketch
of Lehi is worse. Does he even read the texts that he
criticizes?
And finally, for today at least—and one can only hope that
Loftes continues his fine intepretative efforts—is Tryk's
bizzare and convoluted interpretation of
several
passages from the Book of Mormon.
Now the truth of the matter is that Tryk is brand new to the Net
and he has hardly begun to publish the materials he has published
previously as "The Jacob's Well Report." But he has
published a wonderful tome by the name of The Best Kept Secrets
in the Book of Mormon. I here refer you to Dan
Peterson's fine review of that interesting peice of scholarship.
And not being one to waste anything juicy, I am leaving
Dan Peterson's correspondence up for your reading enjoyment.
Due to overwhelming popular demand from my reader, I have
done an exhaustive search of my email and turned up the
missing Dan Peterson correspondence. You may now enjoy
the correspondence in its entirety. And to repeat myself
from last week:
Dan Peterson recently had an email exchange with the author of
the Moroni the
Alien site. This week's Worst features all of
Dan's correspondence with this fellow.
I think it rather nicely illustrates exactly what the most
rabid, howling-at-the-moon anti-Mormons are like.
Oh yes, if you have a pacemaker installed, you may want to
refrain from reading. You may die laughing. For the rest
of you, in order to help prevent laugh-induced injury, place
pillows on the floor near your computer—and keep a box
of tissues nearby. ROFL.
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