GoodK wrote:Who do you think pays travel expenses when someone like DCP flies to Southern California to do a fireside?
I gather that you're saying that he essentially gets to play the role of the globe-trotting ambassador for Mormon Apologetics, and that he gets to charge it all to the Church's petty cash fund....
Seriously, though: Do you have a sense of how much these folks get paid? Further, can you speak to any specifics vis-a-vis "financial gain"? I.e., how much does a FARMS Review contributor typically get paid? How much does DCP make from apologetics on top of his BYU salary? (In your estimation?)
Well, I am saying that, as well as speculating how much of the trip is dedicated to church things vs. apologetic things. It seems silly to fly a DCP type figure out to california from utah for a fireside on the atonement...
I have no clue regarding his exact salary and where the line is drawn between FARMS and BYU pay. I also am waiting to hear back from a friend at BYU regarding his specific role there, as he seems to have a lot of free time to post at MADB.
I highly doubt he gets paid to post online, but if he considers writing for FARMS a apologetic venture, he gets paid for his apologetics.
In other words the claim that Peterson and other LDS apologists are PAID to be apologist's seems to be a hollow claim with no evidence to back it up. Scratch must really be disappointed. Such excitement over NADA!
Jason Bourne wrote:In other words the claim that Peterson and other LDS apologists are PAID to be apologist's seems to be a hollow claim with no evidence to back it up. Scratch must really be disappointed. Such excitement over NADA!
Yes my friend, I suppose we will just have to give the big guy the benefit of the doubt until he owns up to things or we can get a copy of his Income Tax filing.
Yes my friend, I suppose we will just have to give the big guy the benefit of the doubt until he owns up to things or we can get a copy of his Income Tax filing.
Translation: this is a bare assertion without the slightest credible evidence to back it up.
Move along, nothing to see here...
The face of sin today often wears the mask of tolerance.
Yes my friend, I suppose we will just have to give the big guy the benefit of the doubt until he owns up to things or we can get a copy of his Income Tax filing.
Translation: this is a bare assertion without the slightest credible evidence to back it up.
Move along, nothing to see here...
Instead of give you the negative attention you want - because negative attention is still attention - I'll just smile at you.
:)
I'm glad you are having fun.
Of course the authors of FARMS don't get paid for what they do, I mean, why would they? They don't need money, the spirit sustains them...
Mister Scratch wrote:Will is just reacting to having one of his worst fear realized: namely, that apologists are doing it for profit. The only thing that would make all of this worse would be learning that one of the GAs personally signs DCP's Mopologetic paycheck.
Isn't it little bit naïve to think DCP & His Cronies, Gorditto's do this, waste their energies w'out getting paid?
They are like Celebrity B.S. Artists and should be paid accordingly.
There's nothing wrong with it.
(except that our poor DCP takes the fall for all of them with Judas type denial).