Dan is usually best ignored, but I'll make an exception to thank him for sending more people to my blogs by referring them to the "important" blog of his alter-ego, Peter Pan. Dan's well-earned reputation for ad hominem attacks is exemplified by this blog. It combines the worst of FARMS with the irrationality of the Interpreter.
Dan has always been upset at the idea of Latter-day Saints making informed decisions--especially when informed people disagree with Dan. It's a strange characteristic of the credentialed class that they insist everyone agree with them. To be sure, they have their phony "academic disagreements" about such minutiae as which river in Mesoamerica is the Sidon, but they enforce their M2C dogma like old Soviet commissars. Except most of us don't care about the M2C theories any more.
Like other M2C scholars, Dan expects "ordinary" Latter-day Saints to accept the official pronouncements of the "Interpreters," meaning the credentialed class that presumes to tell everyone what to think.
Hence, the name of his awesome "journal" that we all enjoy.
In case you missed it, here's Dan's post:
Of course, I have no problem with what Elder Gong said. Once we accept the dilution theory at the core of M2C, Lehi's descendants can be found everywhere in the world.
Unlike the credentialed class, I'm happy that people can believe whatever they want. Also unlike the credentialed class, I encourage people to make informed decisions.
Here's the screen capture of his gem in case he tries to erase history, the way our revisionist historians and M2C scholars do.
