The Top Ten Happenings in Mopologetics 2008

[_Daniel Peterson]

The thread has to be about DCP before he will acknowledge you.
It is really the only thing he likes to talk about.

As witnessed by the biography that I wrote about Muhammad, and the fourteen bilingual Middle Eastern texts that I've published, and the various articles on Islam that I've produced, and the scads of apologetic material that I've generated. It's always and ever about me.

But let me take this opportunity to acknowledge TAK.

[_TAK]

The thread has to be about DCP before he will acknowledge you.
It is really the only thing he likes to talk about.

As witnessed by the biography that I wrote about Muhammad, and the fourteen bilingual Middle Eastern texts that I've published, and the various articles on Islam that I've produced, and the scads of apologetic material that I've generated. It's always and ever about me.

But let me take this opportunity to acknowledge TAK.

No lets keep this about you.. but thank you for proving the point so quickly ..

[_Daniel Peterson]

No lets keep this about you.. but thank you for proving the point so quickly ..

I again acknowledge TAK.

[_LifeOnaPlate]

Well I certainly feel very underacknowledged.

[_Daniel Peterson]

Well I certainly feel very underacknowledged.

Just acknowledge TAK.

You'll feel better instantly.

[_The Nehor]

Well I certainly feel very underacknowledged.

Just acknowledge TAK.

You'll feel better instantly.

You should write a book about this. It could be the next 'Prayer of Jabez' phenomenon.

[_Mister Scratch]

Why don't you quit doing apologetics, then? What's in it for you? What do you gain by doing it?

I gain relatively little. I do it because I believe I should do it.

And why do you believe that?

More to the point, why are you so concerned that people might think that you collect a "wad of bills" for doing apologetics? Do you worry that it would undermine your credibility in some way?

Of course it would undermine my credibility.

And that, I expect, is one of the major reasons why you seek to make the charge stick.

Would it undermine your credibility if it were discovered that you try to coax money out of wealthy LDS in order to help finance Mopologetics?

[_LifeOnaPlate]

Would it undermine your credibility if it were discovered that you try to coax money out of wealthy LDS in order to help finance Mopologetics?

The fun is in the details. Such as your expression "coax money out of" rather than something more neutral like "solicit donations."

[_Mister Scratch]

Would it undermine your credibility if it were discovered that you try to coax money out of wealthy LDS in order to help finance Mopologetics?

The fun is in the details. Such as your expression "coax money out of" rather than something more neutral like "solicit donations."

No, not really. I'll happily edit the post, if you like. I see no major semantic difference between the two phrases.

[_Daniel Peterson]

Would it undermine your credibility if it were discovered that you try to coax money out of wealthy LDS in order to help finance Mopologetics?

No. Not at all.

We make no secret of the fact that our fundraiser seeks to raise funds. We don't hide the fact that we encourage donations:

http://farms.BYU.edu/subscribe/?donate

We're hardly unusual in this regard:

"Giving to the Huntington" is a feature of the Huntington Library website.

http://www.huntington.org/Advancement/Giving.html

"Give now," says the Audubon Society.

http://www.audubon.org/

"Join or give," says the Sierra Club.

http://action.sierraclub.org/site/PageS ... in_or_Give

"Support our work," say Doctors Without Borders.

http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/do ... DAodsQh0xw

"Support MESA," says the Middle East Studies Association.

http://www.mesa.arizona.edu/Forms/support.htm

"Support Harvard," says Harvard University.

https://post.harvard.edu/harvard/devel/ ... intro.html

"Donate," says the Barbershop Harmony Society.

http://www.barbershop.org/

And so on and so forth.

Non-profit organizations routinely seek donations.

Normal, reasonable people don't find this surprising, let alone sinister and menacing.