drumdude wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2023 1:42 am
As far as I am aware, Mike Parker has not been invited by Dan to be on Interpreter’s radio show since he was exposed. This is noteworthy because Mike was a regular on the show previously.
Dan decided not to comment on Mike, but rather whinge about the heartlanders finding a welcoming home here.
“DCP” wrote: I observe with interest that, in addition to Mr. Neville’s happy willingness to participate on the podcast of a vocally derisive critic of the claims of the Restoration, “TwoCumorahFraud” is now a participant on what I sometimes call the “Peterson Obsession Board.” Some here will recall “TwoCumorahFraud,” a recent commenter here, for his vitriolic hostility to me, Jack Welch, the late John Sorenson, the late William Hamblin, and others, denouncing us for having supposedly plagiarized the evil limited Mesoamerican model for Book of Mormon geography from a long-dead member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints named L. E. Hills and, thus, turned our backs on the modern apostles and prophets. The Obsession Board is a largely atheistic place, fiercely critical of the Church and its beliefs and — since its residents overwhelmingly dismiss the Book of Mormon as a fraud — not remotely inclined to “TwoCumorahFraud’s” aggressive “Heartlander” geographical views. But a shared disdain for “apologists” seems to provide congenial common ground for everybody there, at least for the moment.
A note on Item 4, above: I’ve repeatedly said here and elsewhere that, although (like all of my academic associates, so far as I’m aware) I’m unpersuaded by “Heartlander” models of Book of Mormon geography, I’m perfectly happy to fellowship with members of the Church who hold those views. But, curiously, I’m not perfectly happy when a fellow Latter-day Saint calls me “Slander Dan,” alleges that I reject the prophets, and compares me and my friends to Lucifer and his host of devils. This is what I genuinely object to in the behavior of a few persons who are associated with the “Heartlander” movement: The apparent willingness to denounce other active and committed Latter-day Saints for failing to share their opinions on the precise GPS coordinates of the Jaredite city of Lib. While it’s interesting and even, as an academic subject, not unimportant, the geography of the Book of Mormon is, at most, a topic of secondary or tertiary significance. It isn’t worth breaking fellowship with the Saints. It isn’t worth sowing discord in the Kingdom
- my emphasis
Imagine this instead, or as well:
"This is what I genuinely object to in the behavior of a few persons who are associated with the “
MesoAmerica” movement: The apparent willingness to denounce other active and committed Latter-day Saints for failing to share their opinions on the precise GPS coordinates of the Jaredite city of Lib. While it’s interesting and even, as an academic subject, not unimportant, the geography of the Book of Mormon is, at most, a topic of secondary or tertiary significance. It isn’t worth breaking fellowship with the Saints. It isn’t worth sowing discord in the Kingdom".
No! It would never be right to accuse, say, Parker in such a way, would it? I must have it all wrong, right?
