“Just a Nice Old Man Who Tells Stories?”

My friend and longtime FARMS/Maxwell Institute colleague John Gee takes well-deserved aim at a remark that he recently heard from a “Mormon studies scholar”:

http://fornspollfira.blogspot.com/2016/09/just-nice-old-man-who-tells-stories.html

I might also suggest a glance at this very brief item, also from Dr. Gee, which seems to me clearly relevant:

http://fornspollfira.blogspot.com/2016/08/today-quote.html

May I submit, too, that an arrogant and spiritually undiscerning contemporary might have dismissed Jesus himself as little more than a Galilean peasant yokel who told stories?