beastie wrote:Sometimes I think that board exists so that certain people can make themselves feel better by mocking unbelievers. I mean, good heavens, in the last 3 days I've been told I am intellectually arrogant, have a spiritual sickness, am a binary thinker, and am foolish for following my conscience. Apparently, they think this is a good missionary tactic.
I'm going to engage in psychobabble, so take it with a grain of salt.
I think some apologists have a chip on their shoulders because they know that the academic world would consider Mormonism's basic truth claims quite ludicrous. Certain apologists, more than anything else, want to be viewed as a peer by academics. The grating knowledge that their most basic beliefs will always be viewed as ridiculous by academics, combined with the desire to be a respected academic themselves, creates a state that results in this sort of venting.
All in my layperson, biased, opinion, of course.
In my academic, biased, opinion, too...