Why is he surprised about being half culpable for an unpleasant exchange? Does he really lack any modicum of self awareness? He calls you Dumb Dude ffs. And Chung is Everybody W.C. in other words a toilet. He can generate unpleasant discourse in an empty room ffs.
Seriously, good point.
I suppose it’s meant to imply to his faithful readers that once their friends leave the church, they should expect them to become increasingly hostile and unhinged as Satan buries himself deeper in their heart. And all the noble Mormon can do is look on with pity.
The only person I can imagine from my life who would make me feel the way DCP does about this person is my ex wife. With Dan it’s probably a very long list.
He just can’t help being mean-spirited…
Housman was an agnostic, perhaps even an atheist, and sometimes a hostile one. (His homosexuality may have been at least a partial a motivation for that hostility.)
Premise 1. Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable.
Premise 2. The best evidence for the Book of Mormon is eyewitness testimony.
Conclusion. Therefore, the best evidence for the Book of Mormon is notoriously unreliable.