My Column in "Mormon Times"

[Daniel Peterson]

I take it that you don't like it. I've met a few others of your sort.

[volgadon]

I take it that you don't like it. I've met a few others of your sort.

I hate each Julie Andrews film they've made,

I'm just a nasty narrow-minded jade.

Don't think that I will smile at it,

I'm not a weak-willed hypocrite,

I'll say: I'm bored!

[Pahoran]

I take it that you don't like it. I've met a few others of your sort.

When the stage show was initially touring and was being advertised on the radio, the ads left me cold. I wasn't impressed at all.

Then, some time later, it came back, and I found myself invited to attend and no really gracious way to get out of it. So I went along, resigned to an evening of boredom, and was delighted to be wrong.

FWIW.

Regards,

Pahoran

[Pahoran]

I hate each Julie Andrews film they've made,

I'm just a nasty narrow-minded jade.

Don't think that I will smile at it,

I'm not a weak-willed hypocrite,

I'll say: I'm bored!

Is there a tune that goes with that?

Thanks,

Pahoran

[volgadon]

Is there a tune that goes with that?

Thanks,

Pahoran

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgMI0BObEXI

You see, ennui.

[Daniel Peterson]

Unashamed to reveal his appallingly horrible true character before the shocked gaze of innocent bystanders, Peterson serves up a disgusting broth of anti-scientific and amoral cant:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765617108/Moral-law-is-no-product-of-evolution.html

[3DOP]

In order for bad people to do bad, they have to figure out a way to make it seem good. The worst of history's and literature's villains never admit to themselves or others that they are doing bad.

I am not criticising that. I think its great that King David and Stalin and Nixon and Raskolnikov and Uriah Heep and Pilate and all of us must rationalize our questionable deeds! Thankfully, a man cannot admit to himself that his actions are simply wrong. We have a conscience to confuse before we may do a bad thing. That is why until anyone is dead, we may hope for a change of heart. It is what makes us all brothers. I am inclined to consider it "the true light that enlighteneth all men who cometh into the world" (John 1:9). It is a spark of the divine in us.

I don't believe it evolved.

3DOP

[Daniel Peterson]

Completely undeterred by the so-called "spirit of Christmas," Peterson gets his kicks off of sadistic, Schadenfreude-type ridicule, mocking people and humiliating them for laughs:

http://www.deseretne...s-absolute.html

[thesometimesaint]

In science there is no designer, and evolution isn't purposeless. Though we may not know what that purpose is at any given time.

Ps. Morality gives a better chance for our species to survive childhood.

[Daniel Peterson]

In a typically hateful attempt to drive people out of the Church who don't think precisely the way he does, Peterson attacks Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, using that prominent nineteenth-century American poet as a whipping boy in order to stigmatize all who dare to doubt, question, or think:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765618229/The-Savior-can-change-dark-to-light.html

It's Christmastime, and, as might have been expected, Peterson chooses this season to snarl "Bah! Humbug!" at the world.

[Nathair/|\]

In a typically hateful attempt to drive people out of the Church who don't think precisely the way he does, Peterson attacks Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, using that prominent nineteenth-century American poet as a whipping boy in order to stigmatize all who dare to doubt, question, or think:

http://www.deseretne...k-to-light.html

It's Christmastime, and, as might have been expected, Peterson chooses this season to snarl "Bah! Humbug!" at the world.

Thank you for posting that. Given how my year has gone, I needed to hear that.

[Calm]

Thank you for posting that. Given how my year has gone, I needed to hear that.

It has been a hard, hard year for some reason. I hear so many feel the same way about it.

Hopefully the earth will die and be reborn (quietly) on Dec 21 according to the Mayan timeline and we can start a new cycle and have a better year in a truly new New Year.

[Nathair/|\]

Ed Herman with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir tells the story of Longfellow's Christmas.

[Daniel Peterson]

Getting less and less of a thrill out of assaulting and defaming non-Mormons, Peterson launches a vicious attack on ordinary humble members of his own church:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765618734/Rebirth-of-revelation-heralds-a-brighter-day.html

[Daniel Peterson]

Plainly threatened by their calm rationality, Peterson brutally attacks those who don't share his so-called "faith," even demanding that they stop celebrating Christmas, or something like that:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765619222/Secularism-offers-little-comfort.html?pg=1

[blackstrap]

Good 'ol B.R. with his " life is hard and then you die " philosophy. Thanks for your work Dan and may the new year be a bit less chaotic.

[Daniel Peterson]

Thanks.

[Daniel Peterson]

Representing the forces of barbarism and unreason, Peterson unleashes an attack against science and human progress:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765619789/With-Christianity-natures-fine-tuning-makes-sense.html

[Daniel Peterson]

Overflowing with his characteristic rage and vengefulness, Peterson strikes out at Catholicism while simultaneously mocking Martin Luther and revealing his pro-Nazi leanings:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765620340/We-develop-character-in-the-stream-of-life.html

[Daniel Peterson]

Peterson attempts to recruit others into his vicious, snarling, unprincipled war against all those who differ with him:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765620918/When-it-comes-to-religious-differences-first-show-charity-then-get-charity.html?pg=1

[Daniel Peterson]

Erupting with his typical volcanic vengeance-fueled rage, Peterson smears everybody who doesn't share his abject worship of a completely flawless Joseph Smith:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865571839/Joseph-Smiths-character.html

[Daniel Peterson]

Angrily screaming his defiance of decent people everywhere, Peterson uses an entirely irrelevant theory in linguistics in an attempt to hide the sordid truth about the so-called "Book of Mormon":

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865572457/Top-Book-of-Mormon-expert-Royal-Skousen-to-lecture.html

[Daniel Peterson]

Unintimidated by rumored attempts of Church leaders to silence him because of his viciousness and depravity, and still consumed with hatred for ordinary Latter-day Saints, Peterson, gushing forth his bile in the Church's own daily newspaper, denounces one of the central acts of Mormon worship:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865573084/Sacrament-prayers-have-ancient-origin.html

[urroner]

Good article there

[Scott Lloyd]

Unintimidated by rumored attempts of Church leaders to silence him because of his viciousness and depravity, and still consumed with hatred for ordinary Latter-day Saints, Peterson, gushing forth his bile in the Church's own daily newspaper, denounces one of the central acts of Mormon worship:

http://www.deseretne...ent-origin.html

A fine piece.

Here's a bit of trivia that may have escaped the notice of some: The text of the sacrament prayers in the Doctrine and Covenants is not precisely identical to that in the Book of Mormon. There is a difference of one word. Ten sunbeam points to the first person who can identify the difference.