On Elijah Able

[SeattleUte]

Originally Posted by Tex

I'm genuinely curious as to why Millet didn't provide more data. Maybe he didn't understand Goat's question or maybe he just didn't want to take the time. I took several classes from him, including PoGP, and spent several visits in his office talking to him about various issues. He also happens to be an outstanding emissary of the church to other faiths, has been the vehicle of several fruitful interfaith efforts, and even gotten some pastors/preachers of other faiths to come and speak at the Y.

In short, the role of liar or distortionist (or "FOS" as Lebowski so delicately puts it) I have a hard time assigning to Millet. It just doesn't seem consistent with the man I know. Maybe I'll email him myself.

But to the point of argument, Mike called the people in that 60-minute clip "false priests and priestesses," practitioners of "priestcraft," espousing views no different from the 1940's, and so on. Whatever one thinks of Millet's opinion on who originated the ban, these are clearly over-the-top allegations. Morever, he didn't even listen to the entire conversation, and when asked, could not produce examples of what he found objectionable.

Mike is a bombastic, petulant child on so many issues ... be it blacks, Palestine, torture, or you name it ... and deserves every word of criticism he gets. Small wonder that Lebowski slithers on by to defend him.

Waters is just killing the messenger. This seems to be a new school of apologetics here: "BY, Mark Peterson, who cares what they said. JS didn't say it and it's not in the canon." Millet says the authority for the ban was likely the Pearl of Great Price. That is at least a defensible statement. The Pearl of Great Price says Pharoah was cursed as to the priesthood because of his black skin. I submit Millet was simply stating the obvious.

I'm not interested in a bunch of sophistry about how I'm misreading the Pearl of Great Price. So all you newly minted apologists hold your fingers.