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Re: Bushman Delivers Another Devastating Blow
Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2024 8:31 pm
by Wonhyo
DCP is often guilty of the very thing he accuses critics of being: Willfully ignorant of (or dismissive of) facts.
At this point, decades of Mopologetics (including the opportunity cost of publishing the two books that we had hoped to see in 2014-2015) have shaped the DCP that we now have. Nothing from here on out, not even a devastating blow from Richard Bushman on Martin Harris' "witness" of the plates, will push DCP to seriously look at Mormonism from outside his carefully curated (and probably much more fragile than he'd ever admit) religious world view.
Re: Bushman Delivers Another Devastating Blow
Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2024 9:54 pm
by drumdude
Wonhyo wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2024 8:31 pm
DCP is often guilty of the very thing he accuses critics of being: willfully ignorant of (or dismissive of) facts.
At this point, decades of Mopologetics (including the opportunity cost of publishing the two books that we had hoped to see in 2014-2015) have shaped the DCP that we now have. Nothing from here on out, not even a devastating blow from Richard Bushman on Martin Harris' "witness" of the plates, will push DCP to seriously look at Mormonism from outside his carefully curated (and probably much more fragile than he'd ever admit) religious world view.
"I have labored carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate human actions, but to understand them."
-not Daniel Peterson
Re: Bushman Delivers Another Devastating Blow
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 1:50 pm
by Philo Sofee
drumdude wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2024 9:54 pm
Wonhyo wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2024 8:31 pm
DCP is often guilty of the very thing he accuses critics of being: willfully ignorant of (or dismissive of) facts.
At this point, decades of Mopologetics (including the opportunity cost of publishing the two books that we had hoped to see in 2014-2015) have shaped the DCP that we now have. Nothing from here on out, not even a devastating blow from Richard Bushman on Martin Harris' "witness" of the plates, will push DCP to seriously look at Mormonism from outside his carefully curated (and probably much more fragile than he'd ever admit) religious world view.
"I have labored carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate human actions, but to understand them."
-not Daniel Peterson
