My Column in "Mormon Times"

[Daniel Peterson]

Periodically, I feel that I need to explain that I phrase the announcements of articles here the way that I do in homage to my Malevolent Stalker and his half dozen or so slavish disciples over at another board. Since they always interpret everything I do and say in the most hostile possible manner, as unethical, deceptive, hateful, bigoted, and fueled by out-of-control rage on my part, I'm doing them the (entirely unearned) favor of presenting each article to them already misrepresented and distorted in the defamatory manner that they favor and my Stalker cunningly practices.

Just so you know.

Lately, though, my Stalker seems to have gone mostly silent. Perhaps it's because, after three years or so of my declining to interact with him, he's finally realized that that important phase of his life is over. For about the past year, though, I've been receiving hateful and insulting anonymous emails -- sometimes several a day -- from somebody who, at a minimum, clearly follows the threads on the Stalker's board. I've wondered, sometimes, if it might not be my exasperated and increasingly desperate Stalker, craving attention from me. (I wouldn't be a bit surprised.) But, since I've never, ever, responded to even a single one of these emails, even they have begun to come less and less frequently. Perhaps the poor, troubled fellow is going to have to find a new raison d'être.

[Kenngo1969]

You're a perfect scoundrel, Dan; how can you deny someone his very reason for being?! Your callousness truly knows no bounds! I don't know if you ever saw it, but some months ago I either sent you an e-mail or PM-ed you here about our coincidental appearance in print on the July 5, 2012 edition of the Deseret Morning News. For the record (and just to refresh your memory, perhaps), here's a link to your contribution to the July 5, 2012 edition:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765587890/Christianity-is-all-about-community.html?pg=all

And here is my (Alas, much less worthy!) contribution to the same issue:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765587954/Health-care-decision-is-questionable.html?pg=all

When I contacted you, I offered to forego future publication in issues in which your work appears so as to avoid damaging your reputation. Let me know if you feel it’s necessary to take me up on that offer.

[Daniel Peterson]

Peterson is almost giddy with glee at the thought that all non-Mormons are going to hell -- including even those who never even heard of Peterson's cult:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeterson/2013/06/what-about-those-who-have-never-heard.html

[Avatar4321]

Peterson is almost giddy with glee at the thought that all non-Mormons are going to hell -- including even those who never even heard of Peterson's cult:

http://www.patheos.c...ever-heard.html

Excellent piece Dr.

[Daniel Peterson]

Peterson flat out lies to his readers, making up passages in the Book of Mormon that don't really exist:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865581907/The-Book-of-Mormon-was-very-carefully-written.html

[Daniel Peterson]

Shamelessly lying to the brain-dead TBM sheeple who read his "column," Peterson claims that Joseph Smith was inerrant, infallible, and perfect in every way:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865582259/Millions-shall-know-Brother-Joseph-again.html

[Daniel Peterson]

Feeling safe and secure because he's several thousand miles away across the Atlantic Ocean, the cowardly Peterson mocks patriotism and belittles his own country:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeterson/2013/07/a-day-for-celebration-and-remembrance.html

[Daniel Peterson]

Completely without friends and seemingly unable ever to get along with anybody, Peterson now tries to antagonize the people who run FAIR:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865582923/Annual-FAIR-conference-set-for-Aug-1-2.html

[Calm]

Trying to get double the publicity, I see:

[Daniel Peterson]

Vomiting forth the savage misogyny that is one of his signature characteristics (all of them hateful and reprehensible), Peterson attacks an early Mormon believer simply because she's a woman:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865583267/Mary-Whitmer-12th-witness-to-the-Book-of-Mormon.html

[Daniel Peterson]

Peterson attacks Mary Eberstadt's book on the grounds that she's a non-Mormon woman without the priesthood who should shut up and go back to the kitchen:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeterson/2013/07/faith-and-family-depend-upon-each-other.html

[Daniel Peterson]

Peterson's shameless racism is once again on display in this vicious rant against African culture:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865583914/Theological-training-not-required-to-believe-in-Christ.html

[Daniel Peterson]

Showing his innate fascist colors, Peterson endorses Brigham Young's unethical power grab after the death of Joseph Smith, and, with a smirk, mocks those who resisted it:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865584292/The-Twelve-were-prepared-for-leadership.html

[Daniel Peterson]

Seething with a savage misogyny, Peterson contemptuously spews forth bile upon Eve and, through her, upon all women:

 

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865585036/How-was-Eve-an-help-meet-for-Adam.html

[Daniel Peterson]

Plainly preferring the Iron Age to modern medicine and technology, Peterson denounces science because it conflicts with his silly "religion":

 

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeterson/2013/08/science-isnt-the-only-road-to-knowledge.html

[Daniel Peterson]

Brazenly lying for the Lord as usual, Peterson tries to convince the sheeple of something that, history proves, never happened:

 

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeterson/2013/09/the-transfiguration-of-brigham-young.html

[Daniel Peterson]

Although, with brazen hypocrisy, Peterson continues to benefit from modern medicine and to enjoy modern technology, Peterson comes out with guns blazing against modern science and eeeeevil scientists and in defense of the young-earth creationism that he favors:

 

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865586218/Reading-the-books-of-scripture-and-nature-together.html

[Daniel Peterson]

Reality-based thinkers know that there are only two possibilities for Martin Harris:  Either he was a deliberate liar or he was a crazy loon.  Peterson knows this too, of course, but, as usual, he tries to deceive his gullible readers:

 

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeterson/2013/09/martin-harris-native-honesty-and-life-long-testimony.html

[Daniel Peterson]

Peterson's entire academic career and, indeed, his whole personality are based upon an uncontrollable desire for vengeance against those who wronged him in his unhappy youth and humiliated him during his mission.  So, in this column, he attempts to slake his thirst for revenge by claiming that unbelievers aren't and, indeed, can't be good people:

 

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865587083/Sociologist-explains-how-religion-benefits-even-atheists.html

[Bill “Papa” Lee]

A new column of mine appeared in the �Mormon Times� section of the Deseret News today, entitled by the newspaper�s editors �Prophet�s Birthday Fits with Season�:http://www.mormontimes.com/article/19027/Prophets-birthday-fits-with-seasonRelated items on �Mormon Scholars Testify� include:http://mormonscholarstestify.org/1972/mark-l-mcconkiehttp://mormonscholarstestify.org/2065/steven-c-harperhttp://mormonscholarstestify.org/1477/gordon-a-madsen.

And the inevitable flock of "fans" that come with each Dr. Peterson article:

http://www.deseretnews.com/user/comments/705367348/Many-of-Prophets-revelations-were-shared-experiences.html

I would like to know, why you would call them "fans"; My thinking is those who see him in his current role, he is a teacher, so student seems less demeaning to to the author?

[Daniel Peterson]

Seething with angry contempt for women, Peterson froths with rage at those who've simply suggested that they should be treated with respect:

 

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeterson/2013/10/a-female-apostle-in-the-new-testament.html

[Helen47]

Its seems some scholars take issue with the intrepretation of the scholars you cite in your article. For example

 

" Linda Belleville, Richard Bauckham, and Eldon Epp have taken on the task of correcting some of the above findings pertaining to Junia. Belleville's article is in NTS and is titled "Iounian...episamoi en tois apostolois: A Re-examination of Romans 16.7 in Light of Primary Source Materials" NTS 51 (2005). Bauckham's book "Gospel Women" devotes several pages to interacting, refuting, and correcting the Burer and Wallace article. Epp in his book "Junia: The First Woman Apostle" covers the whole gamut pertaining to Junia.

 

Epp gives a tedious but thorough textual critical evaluation of the history of Junia in the Greek text and also the search for Junias (the alleged masculine form of the name, which doesn't seem to be found in New Testament times and rarely there after) in non-Biblical Greek literature. He points out that the earliest copies of the Greek texts for Romans 16.7 are majuscules (capital letters). There are no accent marks in them. The importance of this is that the gender of the name depends on the accentuation. Hence, the earliest texts are inconclusive and we are very dependent on Patristic interpretation for the gender of Junia. When the minuscules (using lower case Greek letters) appeared, Junia was accented with a character which indicates the feminine form of the name. Despite the Roman Aegidus, the feminine form of the name was in the Greek text of Erasmus' critical text in 1516 and in all critical Greek texts, with the exception of Alford's 1858 edition, until 1928 when Nestle inexplicably (read, he didn't explain it in the apparatus) went to the masculine form. This remained the case until the 1998, when the edition just as inexplicably went back the other way and the masculine is dropped as even an alternative (not in the apparatus). Hence, the textual weight is for the feminine name Junia, which most scholars accept."

http://www.reference.com/browse/Junia

[Helen47]

More.....

 

http://evangelicaltextualcriticism.blogspot.com.au/2010/04/review-of-eldon-epp-junia.html

[Helen47]

Craig Keener observes:

It is also unnatural to read the text as merely claiming that they had a high reputation with “the apostles.” Since they were imprisoned with him, Paul knows them well enough to recommend them without appealing to the other apostles, whose judgment he never cites on such matters. . . . Paul nowhere limits the apostolic company to the Twelve plus himself, as some have assumed (see especially 1 Cor.15:5-11). Those who favor the view that Junia was not a female apostle do so because of their prior assumption that women could not be apostles, not because of any evidence in the text.

[xxv]

 

http://www.memorymeaningfaith.org/blog/2013/04/junia-the-apostle.html

[Daniel Peterson]

Another rage-fueled, hateful piece of dreck from the mercifully-silenced Peterson:

 

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865588998/Latter-day-Saints-and-the-study-of-the-temple.html