Chap wrote:The fact that DCP manages to look more intelligent and better informed than the majority of his interlocutors is hardly a surprise. He is a professional academic, a person who from high school has followed a career path that at each stage selects strongly for articulacy in speech and writing, and the ability to marshal information to support an argument. Moreover, for years now he has been studying the art of making the best possible case for the claims of the CoCJoLDS.
the fact is DCP is a a simple "Whore" a simple "Pimp" to whom he swore his allegiance.
He is like a Transvestite, you know he is a male appearing like a female. It is fake.
Telling us; this is his true identity (true church).
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Chap wrote:The fact that DCP manages to look more intelligent and better informed than the majority of his interlocutors is hardly a surprise. He is a professional academic, a person who from high school has followed a career path that at each stage selects strongly for articulacy in speech and writing, and the ability to marshal information to support an argument. Moreover, for years now he has been studying the art of making the best possible case for the claims of the CoCJoLDS.
the fact is DCP is a a simple "Whore" a simple "Pimp" to whom he swore his allegiance. He is like a Transvestite, you know he is a male appearing like a female. It is fake. Telling us; this is the only true church.
He believes that it is the only true Church. That isn't being fake, if it is then you'll have to explain fake to me. You can't convince me that he doesn't believe what he preaches, I know him, I've seen him speak on a few occasions, he is 100% genuine. Certainly on message boards he can be a bit arrogant and if you were to attack this then I couldn't argue against it. He's no fake.
"… Do you believe Jesus Christ and the gospel of salvation which he revealed? So do I. Christians should cease wrangling and contending with each other, and cultivate the principles of union and friendship. I am just as ready to die defending the rights of a Presbyterian, a Baptist, or a good man of any other denomination." Joseph Smith jr. Sermon, 1843
RockHeaded wrote:The funny thing is I doubt if 90% of the anti Mormons on the internet could hold a good debate with DCP and I think that is why he is attacked on this message board so frequently.
90%? Kinda low don't you think?
it's probably more like 99% but since I know how modest DCP is I figured I'd lower it to 90% ;)
Name the place and time, I'll take him on. DCP has a history of not wanting to meet real critics face to face. He prefers to be shielded by his minions.
RockHeaded wrote:The funny thing is I doubt if 90% of the anti Mormons on the internet could hold a good debate with DCP and I think that is why he is attacked on this message board so frequently.
90%? Kinda low don't you think?
it's probably more like 99% but since I know how modest DCP is I figured I'd lower it to 90% ;)
By the way, DCP is many things--intelligent, quick witted, kind (to most)--but modesty is not one of his traits. His favorite rhetorical device is to berate himself through the voice of his imagined critic--of course all the while implying that he is the opposite. Not really the mark of a humble man.
RockHeaded wrote:The funny thing is I doubt if 90% of the anti Mormons on the internet could hold a good debate with DCP and I think that is why he is attacked on this message board so frequently.
90%? Kinda low don't you think?
it's probably more like 99% but since I know how modest DCP is I figured I'd lower it to 90% ;)
Name the place and time, I'll take him on. DCP has a history of not wanting to meet real critics face to face. He prefers to be shielded by his minions.
I know of instances where DCP met with "real critics face to face."
One moment in annihilation's waste, one moment, of the well of life to taste- The stars are setting and the caravan starts for the dawn of nothing; Oh, make haste! -Omar Khayaam
RockHeaded wrote:The funny thing is I doubt if 90% of the anti Mormons on the internet could hold a good debate with DCP and I think that is why he is attacked on this message board so frequently.
90%? Kinda low don't you think?
it's probably more like 99% but since I know how modest DCP is I figured I'd lower it to 90% ;)
Name the place and time, I'll take him on. DCP has a history of not wanting to meet real critics face to face. He prefers to be shielded by his minions.
I know of instances where DCP met with "real critics face to face."
Don't come on here and call BS. I'm talking about a real debate, not a plausible-deniability private session in which he can deny later. I'll make all of the arraignments. It has to be in a public forum with a debatable question--you know, like "Was Joseph Smith Trustworthy?". It doesn't have to be me either. I sure there are many who would be willing to debate the good doctor.
Dr. Peterson called Ed Decker out for years for not meeting him in a public debate. However, Dr. Peterson has refused to meet McCue in a debate for years also. I'm no Bob McCue, but I will certainly take on DCP.
John Larsen wrote:Dr. Peterson called Ed Decker out for years for not meeting him in a public debate.
I did?
I don't remember that. I don't remember ever having had the slightest urge to face Ed Decker in a public debate.
I debated for my high school, and I did well. But I also learned that winning a debate often had more to do with quick wittedness and rhetoric (both of which I'm reasonably good at) than with the actual strength of one's case. I don't think that oral debate is a particularly good way of getting at the truth.
That said, I've done radio debates with the likes of James White and Bill McKeever (and will, just as a matter of interest, debate Islam with the widely published critic of Islam Robert Spencer next month in Las Vegas).
John Larsen wrote:Dr. Peterson called Ed Decker out for years for not meeting him in a public debate.
I did?
I don't remember that. I don't remember ever having had the slightest urge to face Ed Decker in a public debate.
I debated for my high school, and I did well. But I also learned that winning a debate often had more to do with quick wittedness and rhetoric (both of which I'm reasonably good at) than with the actual strength of one's case. I don't think that oral debate is a particularly good way of getting at the truth.
That said, I've done radio debates with the likes of James White and Bill McKeever (and will, just as a matter of interest, debate Islam with the widely published critic of Islam Robert Spencer next month in Las Vegas).
I must have been misinformed. Thank you for the correction.
Mister Scratch wrote:Or even online? Weren't you a participant in that legendary ZLMB chatroom dogpile, which effectively drove Decker away from discussion?
I don't recall this supposed event.
If it happened, it didn't make much of an impression on me.
I've briefly interacted electronically with Ed Decker on a small handful of occasions over the past two or three decades. I once spoke with him for a few minutes on a friend's call-in radio show. The question here was about formal public debates. I've never sought a debate with Ed Decker.
