Apologists use any or all of their standard response classes.
- Deny: "It doesn't say that. The brotheren have not taught that. It's not doctrinal."
- Dispute "Steel swords aren't that hard to make. Anybody with a fire and iron ore can make them. Heck, my mother makes them on weekends."
- Define: "Steel in this context means iron. Or bronze. Or obsidian, or a club"
- Discount: "The Book of Mormon isn't about swords or horses or cureloms or cumoms or water-tight barges or endless wars. It is a second witness of Christ."
- Discover: "We found some metal somewhere in Central America. That proves that steel was common in the new world amongst Nephites."
- Deflect: "We've been over this question a thousand times. Please read my 100 page paper that is distantly related to the topic."
- Deride: "I can't believe how stupid you anti-mormons are. Answering you would be casting pearls before swine"
- Deplore: "It's so sad that you've lost your testimony and are going to hell. "
- Defer: "God has not chosen to reveal this knowledge to us. It will all make sense later, when we join him in the Celestial Kingdom."
