In Defense of The God Makers
So many hundreds of thousands of copies out there, in book form, 16mm film, VHS, BETA copies and now untold DVDs in many languages spread out throughout the world. You can even get a copy of the book now for your Kindle at Amazon.com.
The book has been revised and updated so that even the latest changes in the unchangeable LDS gospel are included.
Few books have maintained as active a presence in the market for almost 30 years as has the God Makers.
The animation portion alone has been viewed by over ten million people across the globe, if the counters on the many internet video clip sites are accurate. We stopped counting over a year ago.
Let me give you a little history. When Dave Hunt and I wrote the book, its release followed several years of intense research, not only by us, but by a team of researchers at Harvest House Publishers. I think we counted over 1400 separate references in the book.
Once it was complete, it was then reviewed by a law firm, looking for any and every line of type that may lead to a legal challenge, based on a myriad list of laws that pertain to publishing works critical of people and organizations.
Once it had passed all these pre-publication processes and was signed off by those in charge of each review step, it was finally printed and released. It immediately rose to the level of best-seller in the Christian market and stayed there for the better part of the first few years.
When the film, The God Makers, came out it was being shown across the country at more than a thousand venues a month, packed wall to wall with people intent on seeing the hidden doctrines of the LDS Church.
In those venues many Mormons also came and during the question and answer part of the program that followed every showing, many of the same charges were brought against the film and against me, personally. Oddly, the integrity of Dave Hunt was rarely impugned. I was always the traitor to the faith, the son of perdition.
In those times when I am cursed at, spit on and lied about, accused of vile and evil things, I often thought of the words of the great evangelist, Billy Sunday, when he talked those who cursed his bold stand against sin.
“I’ve stood for more sneers and scoffs and insults and had my life threatened from one end of the land to the other by this God-forsaken gang of thugs and cutthroats because I have come out uncompromisingly against them..”
Another time he said, “ I’m against sin. I’ll kick it as long as I’ve got a foot, and I’ll fight it as long as I’ve got a fist. I’ll butt it as long as I’ve got a head. I’ll bite it as long as I’ve got a tooth. And when I’m old and fist-less and footless and toothless, I’ll gum it till I go home to glory and it goes homer to perdition.” Billy Sunday
Now let me get a bit specific. To those who say that the God Makers is full of lies, half truths, misrepresentations of LDS theology, actually give an a real, documented example.
Even when the National Conference of Christians and Jews [NCCJ] came out and called it religious pornography [we agreed: it was our disclosure of actual LDS doctrine to which they were referring.] they had much to say, but no substance.
We contacted them and discovered there were no actual born-again Christians or orthodox Jews on the study, but there were several Mormons and a Buddhist was thrown on, as well.
They had never contacted us, asked us for a single piece of documentation and when we were finally tracked down a few of the ‘panel’ members, they had not even seen the film.
We challenged them to meet with us and give us their best “false statement or half-truth’ and they came up silent and empty.
I give you the same challenge here-in. Stop the prattle and speak substance. I grow weary of such foolishness. You can’t speak “The God Makers” into being a lie. You have to prove it.
In 30 years, I have defended the God Makers publicly and privately, on radio, TV, in the written word and by the spoken word. I am still here and so is the God Makers, still going strong, still reaching across that Mormon barrier of cult thinking and people find the truth and the real Jesus Christ. The real soul freeing gospel He brought us. The real salvation He gave us on the cross.
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