[Colofornian]

From Peterson's talk at the FAIRLDS Conference (still smarting, as he sarcastically said): A few observers, commenting on the recent shake-up at the Maxwell Institute, have claimed that it represents a generational change: A newer, perhaps better trained, certainly kinder and gentler cohort of scholars is arriving on the scene that is embarrassed if not disgusted by the things their predecessors have done, and that is eager to replace sordid polemics and distasteful pseudoscholarship with solid, dispassionate Mormon studies. Time will tell whether this change of generations will really deliver the predicted transformation.

Peterson lampoons what BYU was regarding as "distasteful pseudoscholarship"...but frankly, not only is that all that FAIR and its cohort of apologists have been...but as mentioned in the previous comment, that's all its hit piece by Greg Smith was amounting to be...

[teppe]

Colofornian ...

I have a suggestion for you .... on Sunday, for once why don’t you read the scriptures about Christ’s love, instead of trying to destroy other Christians belief system which you don’t approve of.

If you think this post is that potent .... please be an apologist for why your definition of God and Christ was:

A. Dictated by a pagan Emperor, Constantine.

B. When that Pagan Emperor became baptised he did everything he could to put the Nicene creed into the dustbin of history.

C. The Nicene Creed was ressurected by Emperor Justin the Apostate to fracture christianity in his attempt to reinstate paganism.

D. The Nicene Creed finally triumphed through Emperor Theodosius who established the eddict of Thessalonica which made alternative beliefs to the Nicene Creed punishable by death.

So in otherwords .... your belief system was established by Imerperial decree, Imperial Coercion and Imperial directed Murder.

I’ll take any critisicm of my beliefs that you can throw at me compared to the mountain of ungodly influence that established your belief system.

Sincerely yours, Teppe