bcspace wrote:Any confirmation yet that these emails are real?
Any confirmation yet that these emails are not real?
As whyme would no doubt say: 'The emails have not yet been proven false. If the critics could do that, they would have done so by now.'
Zadok: I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis. Maksutov: That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
DCP has said what he wants to say (quite a lot) in his email, and I don't see that it would help him to say much more until he can talk to potential supporters face to face. Meanwhile, bcspace can go on about 'no confirmation' as much as he likes: every day that passes without anyone saying that nothing of the kind has happened is another confirmation that the emails are genuine. Note how quickly the two relevant threads on the MAD board were shut down without any word of denial by anyone.
Zadok: I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis. Maksutov: That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
Chap wrote:As whyme would no doubt say: 'The emails have not yet been proven false. If the critics could do that, they would have done so by now.'
I have to admit that the longer it takes for a solid denial or clarification, the more it looks like they're legit...
While not an absolute confirmation, California Kid said.
I've been told by people in the know that the emails are real. The lack of denials would seem to suggest the same.
"Any over-ritualized religion since the dawn of time can make its priests say yes, we know, it is rotten, and hard luck, but just do as we say, keep at the ritual, stick it out, give us your money and you'll end up with the angels in heaven for evermore."
"And the human knew the source of life, the woman of him, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, 'I have procreated a man with Yahweh.'" Gen. 4:1, interior quote translated by D. Bokovoy.
Fence Sitter wrote:While not an absolute confirmation, California Kid said.
I've been told by people in the know that the emails are real. The lack of denials would seem to suggest the same.
For what it's worth, Kevin Barney (a pretty well known apologist) wrote on Kerry Shirt's Facebook page (this past Sunday) concerning the Bradford/DCP emails:
[I]t is not a hoax, it is real.
Are we getting closer to confirmation?
"Moving beyond apologist persuasion, LDS polemicists furiously (and often fraudulently) attack any non-traditional view of Mormonism. They don't mince words -- they mince the truth."
-- Mike Quinn, writing of the FARMSboys, in "Early Mormonism and the Magic World View," p. x (Rev. ed. 1998)
Rollo Tomasi wrote:For what it's worth, Kevin Barney (a pretty well known apologist) wrote on Kerry Shirt's Facebook page (this past Sunday) concerning the Bradford/DCP emails:
[I]t is not a hoax, it is real.
Are we getting closer to confirmation?
I expect that for some the emails will need to be published by the Church before they are accepted as real.
"Any over-ritualized religion since the dawn of time can make its priests say yes, we know, it is rotten, and hard luck, but just do as we say, keep at the ritual, stick it out, give us your money and you'll end up with the angels in heaven for evermore."
