Who is your favorite LDS ?????apologist??????

Post by **_charity** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:04 pm

consliglieri
Maklelan
calmoriah
selek
jwhitlock

Post by **_harmony** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:18 pm

moksha wrote:I want to add more too:

The Nehor
Garden Girl
Morningstar
Alter Idem
Harmony
Liz

What? Where? When? Holy Sheep Shorts, lil penquin! I only apologize when I'm wrong.

Post by **_harmony** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:22 pm

charity wrote:consliglieri
Maklelan
calmoriah
selek
jwhitlock

I do enjoy Maklelan. He used to have more chutzpah, but nobody's perfect.

I used to like Confidential Informant too. And SMac. I would have once put Kerry on that list, but that was a long time ago.

_Yoda · Post by **_Yoda** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 12:08 am

harmony wrote:
moksha wrote:I want to add more too:

The Nehor
Garden Girl
Morningstar
Alter Idem
Harmony
Liz

What? Where? When? Holy Sheep Shorts, lil penquin! I only apologize when I'm wrong.

Hey, Harm! We're apologists! Who 'da thunk? ;)

Post by **_Doctor Steuss** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 12:25 am

liz3564 wrote:Hey, Harm! We're apologists! Who 'da thunk? ;)

Congratulations!

(If you get coffee mugs, I'm really going to be pissed...)

Post by **_moksha** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 12:32 am

I left out Charity. That is like leaving out a conservative think tank when you are adding up the people with IQs over 100 in Washington.
Got to add her:

Charity

Post by **_moksha** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 12:35 am

liz3564 wrote:
harmony wrote:
moksha wrote:I want to add more too:

The Nehor
Garden Girl
Morningstar
Alter Idem
Harmony
Liz

What? Where? When? Holy Sheep Shorts, lil penquin! I only apologize when I'm wrong.

Hey, Harm! We're apologists! Who 'da thunk? ;)

I have broadened the scope of apologetics to include those who can be honest as well as defensive in the name of Mormonism.

Post by **_Tarski** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 1:42 am

Kathrine the Great (reasonable)
Asbestosman (creative, understands the arguments, doesn't just assert dogma)
Dr. Steuss (to the extent that he is an apologist---he seems like a reasonable and good humored dude in any case).

DCP? Well, he needs to fess up about the horses.

Post by **_Mister Scratch** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 3:17 am

Dr. Shades wrote:My favorite apologist is, hands-down, DCP. Why? Because of A) his rapier wit, which makes him a very good read even if he's advocating a position with which I disagree, and B) his ability to catch flaws in his opponents' thinking. Whenever I disagree with him on something and make it known, I know I have to have all my ducks in a row, 'cause he'll surely call me out otherwise.

I agree (not surprisingly) wholeheartedly with this. No one else comes close. Bokovoy is very friendly, and I rather like him, but he caves under pressure fairly easily. Pahoran is too much of a powder keg. All three of those guys, however, have had to guts to come take on the critics over here on this MB. There are the cowards, of course, such as Bill Hamblin and Scott Lloyd. They probably both know that they would be ground into mincemeat in fairly short order. Kerry Shirts, likable as he may be, is just too flamboyant to be Numero Uno. I guess we are not even touching upon some of the more "paper-based" apologists---i.e., folks who stick primarily to publishing in FARMS Review and its ilk. It probably goes without saying that those guys just aren't as fun and/or interesting, although I must confess that I am chilled to my very marrow by the uber-serious clenched lips and rather pasty mien of John Tvedtness. For whatever reason, I find him to be unspeakably creepy, in a nightmarishly avuncular way.

_Yoda · Post by **_Yoda** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 3:27 am

Doctor Steuss wrote:
liz3564 wrote:Hey, Harm! We're apologists! Who 'da thunk? ;)

Congratulations!

(If you get coffee mugs, I'm really going to be pissed...)

You got a Starbuck's coffee mug. Didn't you read my earlier post? ;)