Were DCP and other BYU Apologists Ordered to "Tone it Down"?

[_Doctor Scratch]

Yes...that's right. I recall Benson's quote. When was that, by the way?

That was 1993

Well, then, that would place it well before the time period in question.

[_Daniel Peterson]

Nobody ordered, required, suggested, insisted, or otherwise caused that anything be "toned down."

We were never so villainous as we've been systematically made out to be. There has been no massive change.



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[_Doctor Scratch]

Nobody ordered, required, suggested, insisted, or otherwise caused that anything be "toned down."

We were never so villainous as we've been systematically made out to be. There has been no massive change.



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You yourself said that there was a "quip" concerning the negative aspects of Mopologetics. What was it?

[_Daniel Peterson]

Get a life, Scratch.

[_Doctor Scratch]

Get a life, Scratch.

Oh, come now. You wouldn't want to seem hypocritical. You and LoaP are playing tag-team on the other thread, pumping Gadianton for answers. It just wouldn't be right for you to dodge this very simple question, now, would it?

[_Daniel Peterson]

Any non-Scratchist can write to me for the epic full story, unedited and unabridged, of the world-historical quip via daniel_peterson@BYU.edu.

I doubt that any non-Scratchist really cares, but it won't bother me to be surprised.

[_Doctor Scratch]

Any non-Scratchist can write to me for the epic full story, unedited and unabridged, of the world-historical quip via daniel_peterson@BYU.edu.

I doubt that any non-Scratchist really cares, but it won't bother me to be surprised.

I'm sure you know how it looks that you keep avoiding this very simple question.

[_Daniel Peterson]

I'm sure you know how it looks that you keep avoiding this very simple question.

I hope it makes it looks as if I'm tired of your absurd and obsessive three-year-long attempt to defame me, and as if I'm simply not going to continue (as I've done for three long years) to respond to your agenda-driven interrogation.

[_Doctor Scratch]

I'm sure you know how it looks that you keep avoiding this very simple question.

I hope it makes it looks as if I'm tired of your absurd and obsessive three-year-long attempt to defame me, and as if I'm simply not going to continue (as I've done for three long years) to respond to your agenda-driven interrogation.

Such hyperbole! How is you answering a simple question going to "defame" you? It's not. You're just being a baby.

[_Daniel Peterson]

Such hyperbole! How is you answering a simple question going to "defame" you? It's not. You're just being a baby.

LOL. Obviously, my answering a simple question won't defame me. (That's why I'm happy to answer this question for any non-Scratch who contacts me at daniel_peterson@BYU.edu.)

It's the way you'll spin any answer I give you that will defame me.

Three years of it has been enough, and then some. And I've certainly figured your modus operandi out by now!