Apologists Erupt over Runtu's Top 10 List
Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 11:44 pm
Over on the aptly named MADboard, several notable apologists are flipping out over a comic Top Ten List which seems to have been penned by our very own Runtu:
http://www.mormonapologetics.org/topic/ ... emolished/
You can judge for yourself whether or not this satiric list is worthy of the criticism it has received from the apologists:
Later, John "Runtu" Williams appeared on the thread to claim credit, and to put out any angry fires on the Mopologetic front:
No---sorry, John. The apologists are absolutely grimly humorless when it comes to things like this. Most striking was this unfortunate but predictable outburst from Pahoran:
Huh. It seems to me that this is poor form on Pahoran's part. Doesn't he know that a group of Latter-day Saints touring the Holy Land in the 1970s found it uproariously funny to mock the Jewish wedding ceremony? Someone better tell him post-haste, before he embarrasses important apologists yet again.
http://www.mormonapologetics.org/topic/ ... emolished/
You can judge for yourself whether or not this satiric list is worthy of the criticism it has received from the apologists:
Top Ten Rejected Names for the "Mormon Scholars Testify" Website
Date: Jan 12 17:11
Author: substrate
Mail Address: XXXXXX
10. Great Moments in Cognitive Dissonance
9. Smarter People Than You Who Believe
8. Who's Who of Lame Excuses
7. Extreme Makeover: Bogus Religion Edition
6. It's Still a Pig, Even if the Lipstick Has a PhD.
5. Dancing Around the Truth
4. Lie to Me: Utah
3. Truthbusters
2. At Least We're Not Defending Bigfoot
1. It's Not a Lie if You Believe It
Later, John "Runtu" Williams appeared on the thread to claim credit, and to put out any angry fires on the Mopologetic front:
John Williams wrote:A couple of clarifications:
1. Everything I've ever done is remarkably juvenile, so don't expect me to change.
2. I can't believe you called me a jackass. You owe all jackasses out there an apology. :)
And I thought apologists had a sense of humor. ;)
No---sorry, John. The apologists are absolutely grimly humorless when it comes to things like this. Most striking was this unfortunate but predictable outburst from Pahoran:
Pahoran wrote:John Williams wrote:A couple of clarifications:
1. Everything I've ever done is remarkably juvenile, so don't expect me to change.
2. I can't believe you called me a jackass. You owe all jackasses out there an apology. :)
If you really are the author of that pile of bigoted vomitus, then you are right.John Williams wrote:And I thought apologists had a sense of humor. ;)
We do.
It's just that "jokes" along the lines of "All Mormons tell lies" or "Mormons are out of touch with reality" pretty much fall under the same genre as "jokes" about why Jews have big noses and how many people with hereditary suntans can hang from one tree. The only people that enjoy them are the local Imperial Wizard, the local Gauleiter, and the local Mormon-hater.
Who may or may not all be the same person.
Oh, and just so you know: "Cognitive dissonance" as an anti-Mormon slogan is now recognised as mere pretentious posturing by the incurably ignorant.
Regards,
Pahoran
Huh. It seems to me that this is poor form on Pahoran's part. Doesn't he know that a group of Latter-day Saints touring the Holy Land in the 1970s found it uproariously funny to mock the Jewish wedding ceremony? Someone better tell him post-haste, before he embarrasses important apologists yet again.