"Anti-Mormon": The Adventures of an Epithet

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_harmony
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Re: "Anti-Mormon": The Adventures of an Epithet

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beastie wrote:Here's a recent example from Pahoran, who is the master:

Its falsehood is immediately apparent from the fact that every anti-Mormon does in fact resort to resort to lying, twisting the truth, and making things up.

Yourself not excepted.


http://www.mormonapologetics.org/index. ... 0&start=80

He's talking to Analytics in this response - the same person he told, on ZLMB, that since he was an anti-mormon he wouldn't object to the murder of Mormons.

I think the term anti-mormon is appropriate at times. The nuts who yell at Mormons and protest, or the Ed Deckerites who say Mormonism is Satanic in origin - those people really are "anti-mormons". (of course, not even they would condone murder, I suspect) But to use the term, with all its associations, against someone like Analytics is ludicrous.


Pahoran is one of the best anti-Mormons ever born. He's also a coward. If he had any courage, he'd come here.
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Well, I have to admit Harmony, that we have to wonder why Pahoran doesn't visit our forum, given that he'd be free to say pretty much anything he wants here. One has to acknowledge the confidence of DCP, BCSpace, and Droopy, they truly do believe in their respective missions.
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Pokatator wrote:In other words, you and DCP and others really aren't helping your cause. I think you make it worse. You seasoned apologist types can handle the lying and deception you do and your hollow arguments but the Chapel/Meldrum type Mormons would view you just as much anti-Mormon as the ones you described above.

Pokatator can't seem to grasp the concept of civil and respectful disagreement.

Oh well. He's a lying deceiver who discredits critics of Mormonism with his vacuous nonsense.

I can live with that.
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Gadianton wrote:Well, I have to admit Harmony, that we have to wonder why Pahoran doesn't visit our forum, given that he'd be free to say pretty much anything he wants here. One has to acknowledge the confidence of DCP, BCSpace, and Droopy, they truly do believe in their respective missions.

I can't really think of any good reason for Pahoran or any other believing Latter-day Saint to come here.

I mean, really. For the vast audience? For the substantive and respectful discussions? For the erudition of the place?
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Daniel Peterson wrote:
Pokatator wrote:In other words, you and DCP and others really aren't helping your cause. I think you make it worse. You seasoned apologist types can handle the lying and deception you do and your hollow arguments but the Chapel/Meldrum type Mormons would view you just as much anti-Mormon as the ones you described above.

Pokatator can't seem to grasp the concept of civil and respectful disagreement.

Oh well. He's a lying deceiver who discredits critics of Mormonism with his vacuous nonsense.

I can live with that.


And yes dear Danny I can live with you too.
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Pokatator wrote:dear Danny

The lying deceiver Pokatator can't seem to grasp the concept of civil and respectful disagreement.
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I mean, really. For the vast audience? For the substantive and respectful discussions? For the erudition of the place?


I wouldn't say I had that in mind, not to knock my buddy P., but, I've never recalled him being interested in the things you list here at all. Not even in the slightest little bit.
Lou Midgley 08/20/2020: "...meat wad," and "cockroach" are pithy descriptions of human beings used by gemli? They were not fashioned by Professor Peterson.

LM 11/23/2018: one can explain away the soul of human beings...as...a Meat Unit, to use Professor Peterson's clever derogatory description of gemli's ideology.
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Actually, Pahoran did post here for a time. But, when he learned that the people here would dish it back to him just as well as he dished it out (without any mods to back him up), he tucked tail and ran. And he's never been back. I find his cowardice remarkable.
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Spoken like a true hero.

It's very courageous to practice anonymous character assassination here.
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Daniel Peterson wrote:Spoken like a true hero.

It's very courageous to practice anonymous character assassination here.


Is this quip meant to somehow excuse Pahoran's cowardice? Or are you just engaging in a combination red herring-ad hominem attack?
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