Kevin Graham wrote:Thompson is a qualified Egyptologist, but unlike the apostate Dr. Thompson
Oh that would make things much easier for droopy, but as usual he doesn't know what he is talking about, as Thompson is no "apostate" and is an active LDS member in good standing.the Church also has and has fielded competent and distinguished scholars with similar credentials
Funny how droopy admits these people work strictly for the Church, revealing their biased agenda that has nothing to do with truth or scholarship. But let's see who he had in mind. CFR.greater intellectual depth (if Shirts' expose of Thompson's lackluster scholarship is any indication, and it most certainly appears to be) who have not found Thompson's conclusions convincing.
Kerry Shirts wears fruit on his head and argues that archaeology proves God has a penis. He is not a scholar in any sense of the word and he doesn't pretend to be. His website is an ancient artifact of failed apologetics. The fact that members have to restort to relying on whatever nonsense an armchair apologist pumps out, means they have no business talking about intellectual integrity.
The fact is no one has dealt with Thompson's refutations of Nibley, and Ritner's latest book confirms much of what Thomspn already established. According to Ritner, Nibley's knowledge of Egyptian was so bad, that he'd perform "word for word" translations, producing gibberish, just so he could say, "See, this makes no sense, Egyptian we may never understand." Of course word for word translations from any language often produce gibberish. Nibley had Mormons fooled into thinking he had a decent grasp of the Egyptian language. He didn't. But who was going to argue with him? There were no Mormon Egyptologists at the time.
When I was an apologist this caused concern for me so I emailed an LDS E-list that was frequented by numerous LDS scholars and their only help was to tell me that Thompson was working his way down the career ladder by becoming a HS teacher somewhere in Florida. That was the extent of their response when I presented a number of claims he made that contradicted Nibley. In reality Thompson is visiting scholar at Brown University and the Egyptology depts at Chicago and Brown Universities are all united in their disagreement with the one or two "Egyptologists" produced by the Church. They have no credibility anywhere now.
In reality, the apologists have not dealt with Thompson. He has more credibility than both of the Church's "Egyptologists" put together. Mulhstein and Gee both have become agents of disinformation and they are not shy about lying if they think they can get away with it or save a soul for the Mormon Church. Truth really doesn't matter to them. Muhlstein's latest and idiotic remark aboutr a papyrus saying "Abraham on his couch" is a perfect example.
Loran Blood is a moron of epic proportions, and he has yet to demonstrate any knowledge on these matters whatsoever. It is why he gets "insta-banned" on his home forum whenever he tries to stick his nose into the subject he clearly knows nothing about. This is the same idiot who tried telling me the critics were arguing that the Book of Abraham came from the Hypocephalus! It is the same idiot who told me I knew nothing, but then ran over to the other forum to solicit help from the apologists in order to respond to my questions; they couldn't help him either. Between defenses mounted by Loran and the "special needs" apologist named Wade Englund, things aren't looking good for LDS apologetics. They don't have the intellectual fortitude to create valid counter-arguments. All they know how to do is attack anyone who dares stray from the party line.
Very interesting input, K. I figured as much just from the mechanical regurgitations Mr. Droopy hinted at.
Its so interesting to me to see Mormons make claims like "Thompson has been refuted" but then fail to show any evidence to support that claim.
Anyway, good insights. Many thanks.
-BH
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