Jeremy Runnells talks about taking research from others, including the Tanners, and compiling it to create the CES Letter on the Mormon Stories podcast.

Date
Jun 12, 2014
Type
Interview
Source
Jeremy Runnells
Critic
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

"Mormon Stories 481: Jeremy Runnells Pt 2 - Jeremy Runnells Discusses the CES Letter in Detail," Youtube, June 21, 2014

Scribe/Publisher
Mormon Stories
People
Jeremy Runnells, Sandra Tanner, Jerald Tanner, John Dehlin
Audience
Viewing Public
Transcription

Jeremy: It's not my information and I stand on the shoulders of giants, the Tanners. They're real...they're the real hipsters.

John: The Tanners?

Jeremy: Yeah, they knew a lot of this stuff in the '60s, and they're just now being vindicated. I heard about the Tanners, the "anti-Mormons", the God makers and all that stuff How can you not watch that interview with Sandra Tanner? She's just this nice grandma that knows a lot of stuff about Mormon history. I'm not a Christian. I don't really relate to the whole Christian stuff.

The stuff that they figured out and came out with - they were involved in a lot of stuff, that Mark Hofmann stuff, the Book of Abraham, and so it's really interesting. I stand on the shoulders of giants. What I did was I took their research, and their insights, and their works, and I put it in a way that worked best for me, that explained my train of thought in terms of why I no longer believed in the Church.

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