You did a poor job of defending your idol then, and you're doing a poor job of defending him now.
Now that you're out of your den after a long winter's nap, perhaps you could come up with something a bit more...oh, misogynistic; something that would give your accusations at least a patina of legitimacy beyond your standard technique of inflating common, garden variety insults aimed at very disagreeable people as signs of broad based psychopathology.
Something, in other words, beyond the special pleading of a vindictive character assassin
How would I measure "credibility or respect outside [my] own little matrix"? Would articles in Christian periodicals and interviews with national television shows and newspapers count? Would being asked to introduce speakers at the FAIR Conference and write for the Mormon gateway at Patheos count? Or are they part of my matrix, too?
None of these are, in any necessary way, signs of credibility. There snapshots of your life, not signs of credibility. Al Gore is infinitely more well known, has done far more interviews and articles than you likely ever will, and written several major books, and done a major Hollywood move, and he has no credibility, so where does this leave you? Lots of intellectuals throughout history have had public venues, but little or no credibility. Credibility is grounded in intellectual substance and intellectual integrity, not the venues you've been given to peddle your intellectual wares. You're behavior here, regarding your disingenuous witch hunt against an apologist who threatened your fragile worldview, is the issue at hand.
CFR. I would like to hear some examples of myself "gnawing on the Book of Abraham." Should be easy for you to find since it's such a favorite pastime of mine.
Did I mention you? It is the favorite pastime of many here, and always has been. In any case, when any of you think of Will, you think of the Book of Abraham and the distinct possibility that the wall of voodoo you have built up around it could come tumbling down at any time. That was the basis of the entire Will dogpile, and we among those who defend the Church...as well as you, know that perfectly well.
I'm pretty sure I made an effort to understand what the Book of Abraham actually says when I took that Pearl of Great Price class as a freshman at BYU. Got an A in it, too.
You're "pretty sure?" Hardly compelling, considering the source.
No. It's a picture of some bad pulp that Blixa photoshopped to say "Ms. Jack."
Nice dodge.
Keep trying though. I'm sure you're about to turn up evidence that I'm up to something truly sinister any minute now . . .
And wouldn't that be poetic justice...