"Mormonism has a depth

[SeattleUte]

Originally Posted by YOhio

http://www.yale.edu/mormon_conference/

Looks like all Mormons who put it on.

[creekster]

Originally Posted by YOhio

http://www.yale.edu/mormon_conference/

Someone needs a primer on googling techiniques, it would appear.

[creekster]

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

Looks like all Mormons who put it on.

You mean mormons had the nerve to present about mormonism?!? How can it have any liegitmacy if it isn't put on by non-mormons?

[Tex]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

I believe that the Claremont thing is because a wealthy Mormon put up millions of dollars. I think that Claremont wouldn't sniff at Quinn because the Mormon donor objected, IIRC.

That was me.

[SeattleUte]

Originally Posted by creekster

You mean mormons had the nerve to present about mormonism?!? How can it have any liegitmacy if it isn't put on by non-mormons?

This is typical FARMS fakery. They put on a conference on the Yale campus, attended by a FARMSy or two who attended or is temporarily at Yale, call it a Yale conference, and make it appear that Yale Divinity School is sponsoring this major ecumenical or secular study of "Mormon philosophy." "Yale" is just a veneer here, I promise.

[YOhio]

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

"Yale" is just a veneer here, I promise.

Pinky swear?

[Goatnapper'96]

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

This is typical FARMS fakery. They put on a conference on the Yale campus, attended by a FARMSy or two who attended or is temporarily at Yale, call it a Yale conference, and make it appear that Yale Divinity School is sponsoring this major ecumenical or secular study of "Mormon philosophy." "Yale" is just a veneer here, I promise.

Similar to Pinochio that dick protruding from your forehead is growing. Shut up the words of your mouth and the viagara overdose will go away and the rest of us will just remember it as one of your stupid moments.

[YOhio]

Originally Posted by Goatnapper'96

Similar to Pinochio that dick protruding from your forehead is growing. Shut up the words of your mouth and the viagara overdose will go away and the rest of us will just remember it as one of your stupid moments.

Are you doubting him? Does an SU promise mean nothing to you? I see no reason to not trust him on this one Goat.

[ChinoCoug]

Originally Posted by Tex

That was me.

how did you let him get away with chairing the Yale conference session? Such a failure, Tex!

[SeattleUte]

Originally Posted by ChinoCoug

how did you let him get away with chairing the Yale conference session? Such a failure, Tex!

Bullshit. He didn't "chair" it. On the contrary. It was a conference funded and censored by BYU/FARMS. Quinn's role was reduced to simply introducing the keynote speaker (Bushman) because of BYU's intervention. Kenneth West, a BYU alumn and Mormon and graduate student at Yale, organized the conference.

"In 2003, when he was a visiting professor at Yale University, BYU threatened to withdraw funding for a conference it was co-sponsoring with Yale on Mormonism if Mr. Quinn was allowed to speak there, according to the conference's organizer, Kenneth West. Noel Reynolds, a longtime BYU administrator and now a Mormon mission president in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., says the university was concerned that "the conference not be used to promote personalities or personal complaints about the church." Yale officials insisted on the participation of Mr. Quinn, who ultimately resolved the dispute by agreeing to introduce the keynote speaker rather than give a scholarly paper."

http://www.lds-mormon.com/wsj_quinn.shtml

The conference was a dog and pony show.