Adam on Facebook wrote:Daniel Peterson is an insecure bully, and the LDS church would be well served to have him relegated to teaching Arabic at BYU and keep him out of the clown's cottage industry that is LDS apologetics.
Where is my popcorn popper?
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Bailey on Facebook wrote:This makes me so angry. As an active TBM I'm just mortified how someone could possibly think these actions are appropriate. I'll never understand how anyone could think that attacking for your cause is ever a good idea (unless physically threatened, and by definition, that would be self defense). ESPECIALLY if your cause is promoting Christ and his teachings. Way to build bridges there DCP.
All I know, is that my Mormonism and his Mormonism are NOT the same thing.
I think that this comment represents most of the chapel Mormons, even those who know about Dehlin's work:
Same here. I don't know what the Institute is.
Dan's ~630 Facebook friends pales in comparison to the more than 5,000 that John has!
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I would assume that on John's Facebook page, the comments would be negative toward Dan. Just an observation.
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