Mister Scratch wrote:Well, does the "later question" figure into Mopologetic motivation? I kind of think that it does. Don't you? I.e., don't you think that many Mopologists ask themselves this question at some point, and that their answer in part determines how they choose to act?
Not in the same you do, it seems. From where I'm sitting, it looks like you've merely constructed some psychological categories (all but one of which are negative) in order to place Mormon defenders in a poor light.
Speaking of the only neutral/neutral-positive category you propose, you wrote:
Furthermore, it seems unlikely that this is ever the sole reason why a given individual undertakes LDS apologetics.
I don't know why it seems unlikely. You haven't provided any reasons for assuming it to be unlikely.
My guess is that you subjectively constructed your categories specifically to apply to certain individual LDS defenders, rather than that certain LDS defenders just happen to fit in your "objective" categories.
Shade's categories are intended to describe general phenomena. Yours seem intended to label particular people.
That's my take, at any rate.
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