Reply #16: And you've done what, exactly, to verify or debunk these facts?

[darkstar3]

Here's a lesson on credibility:

You have employed an obvious straw man, substituting Graves for Murdock and attempting to attack Murdock's credibility through an associate. You have further defended this tactic as if it were somehow legitimate or substantially different from the Rev. Wright fiasco. You therefore have lost any credibility you may believe your Googley prowess has given you, at least on the topic of religious history.

And stop pretending, through phrases like your last, that you speak for "the scholarly." It may have escaped your superior perspective, but there are several denizens of this board who are most certainly members of that scholarly class to which you aspire.