Gadianton wrote:
None. I don't want to take this to "real life" beyond apologetic activity. I have no comment on careers, families, or much else unless it's relevant to apologetics. I judge internet output, and apologetic output in print. I'm sure most of the apologists are decent people in real life, and I'm not looking to judge these people, to "smear" them or spend time getting to know them as people behind the monikers and vindicate them. I'll let Jesus do that. I'm interested in the phenomena of mopologetics.
I think this is an important point, I wonder if it provides some insight into why certain folks think that criticism of the apologists amounts to "character assassination." As you rightly point out, Dr. Robbers, neither you, nor myself, nor most critics, actually, engage in in real life attacks on the apologists. While Midgley and Roper will turn up at Sandra Tanner's bookstore, and while DCP will gossip about Mike Quinn's private sex life, you and I stick to online activity and printed Mopologetics. And the apologists virtually never coming looking well, all things considered. So, if one were to judge the apologists based purely off the criteria you mentioned, then they probably would seem like the scum of the earth.
I suppose that people like Jason are posting with extra knowledge of and experience with these Mopologists in real life. So, to focus purely on their Mopologetic personae may seem (to them, anyway) like "character assassination," since holding these folks to their Mopologetic activities will inevitably make them look bad, since they are.