The "CES Letters" YouTube channel and website are another effort by LDS apologists to counter the CES Letter by largely agreeing with the assertions of the CES Letter.
It seems counterproductive to me.
A better approach, in my view, would be to corroborate and support what Joseph and Oliver taught instead of repudiating it and rationalizing why they were wrong.
I commented on this in more detail on my ldshistoricalnarratives blog, here:
https://www.ldshistoricalnarratives.com/2024/09/the-embarrassed-narrative-and-sith.html
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Here's an example of how the apologists cause more problems than they solve. The episode titled "Translation with Richard Lyman Bushman" promotes SITH.
It has had 2.2k views in 3 weeks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAAKV1JDBHk&list=PLyz16Fi98u5xf53bZYEF74m6pGUtDpzTO
Mormon Stories did an episode in response titled "Top Mormon Historian Admits CES Letter has Validity - Richard Bushman | Ep. 1934."
81k views in 8 days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T13dVy3izM&t=1811s
We can all see that the apologists not only corroborated and supported the CES Letter claims, but they generated content that corroborated and supported the narrative promoted by Mormon Stories, which attracted 40x the views in less than half the time.
The comments to the Mormon Stories video explain the problem in detail.
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How about taking a different approach that supports, corroborates, and explains what Joseph and Oliver taught?
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