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How often does Dan criticize his comrades? I confess I don't know because I don't read his blog posts except when they're mentioned here. The only time I have ever seen him criticize a fellow apologist in public was he lashed out at Yahoo Bot once---because Yahoo Bot had spoken out against William ...

You’ve consistently been one of the most even headed posters here. It blows my mind that DCP compared you to gollum. I can’t think of anything else that highlights DCP’s deranged view of critics better than that. I do find it revealing, especially when you consider that guys like Kiwi57 and Midgley...

I've never seen that image before, or most of the planet names. Do you know the source of that meme, Moksha? The caption at the bottom of the photo contains a URL -- that leads to the Joseph Smith Papers website. The names were pulled out of Joseph Smith’s magic hat and were readily available to hi...

I've never seen that image before, or most of the planet names. Do you know the source of that meme, Moksha?

Talk about steadying the ark! If Jesus is indeed an infinite and all-powerful being, he most certainly could personally meet every single dying human from Earth, plus all the other aliens that he died for as well. The whole physical body thing gets in the way perhaps, but maybe when you've attained ...

For one, the gospel topics essays were a form of bargaining, following decades of denial and, at times, anger at the "critics" who merely pointed out the inconvenient truth. FAIR is all about bargaining. Seems like the overall state of LDS apologetics is hovering around that stage. Less developed M...

Informed readers know the name-title of “Pharaoh” (Great House) is misused in Joseph Smith’s translations and is an anachronism in the Book of Abraham. The very word “Pharaoh” does not belong in Abraham’s time and Smith’s definition of what it signifies is incorrect: And now, without further ado, I...

I vaguely remember DCP arguing for the reasonability of Pascal’s wager. So he might be at stage 3! I really hope Dan isn't a Pascal person. It's such a terrible argument and has been debunked pretty much since it was first proposed. I can't say I would be surprised if Dan were a Pascal wagerer, how...

Considering how many members here are former apologists, I am curious, in your own experiences, how much of your "testimony" was based on fuzzy feelings or experiences you believed to be supernatural in origin? Zero. I was very interested in experiencing the supernatural but I never believed that I...

I know "Abram" doesn't appear, I just meant is that hieratic character present in the surviving papers. I believe it does as indicated in a previous post. What does that suggest to your mind and what questions would that pose to LDS Egyptologists who are stuck having to explain its existence within...