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2025-08-31T21:36:55-06:00

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“With a fatherly care, and paternal regard”

Last updated on: August 31, 2025 at 9:36 pm By Dan Peterson

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During the April 1929 General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Elder Orson F. Whitney, an exceptionally talented writer and speaker and a senior member of the Church’s Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, delivered an address that has been quoted frequently in recent decades by other leaders of the Church and by many other Latter-day Saints. It has given comfort to many, for obvious reasons. Consider, for example, the three following passages from his remarks: The... Read more

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2025-08-30T18:04:19-06:00

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How high can it fly?

Last updated on: August 30, 2025 at 6:04 pm By Dan Peterson

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Honestly, I think that some critics of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are deranged. I can understand coming to the conclusion that the Church’s truth claims are false. What I can’t understand and what I regard as very likely unhinged is jumping from that conclusion to the further conclusion that absolutely everything that the Church and its leaders do is (some combination or other of) evil, deceptive, dishonest, ridiculous, and worthy of sneering contempt. Yet I... Read more

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2025-08-30T14:01:08-06:00

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Padre no me arrepiento

Last updated on: August 30, 2025 at 2:01 pm By Dan Peterson

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“Why God Placed Adam and Eve Under Paradoxical Injunctions: A View of the Garden Scene through the Optics of Communication Theory,” written by Jared Balmer Abstract: This paper investigates the pragmatic aspect of communication between God and our first parents while in the Garden of Eden—the psychological impact of placing them under contradictory injunctions that result in a situation of “damned if you do and damned if you don’t.” God could not introduce knowledge that, by definition, also involves... Read more

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2025-08-28T19:08:08-06:00

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Men and Women and Girls and Boys, etc.

Last updated on: August 28, 2025 at 7:08 pm By Dan Peterson

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Thursday is our day at the website of the Interpreter Foundation for posting reprints of book chapters. Today is Thursday, so we’ve posted the reprint of a book chapter. Please note that today isn’t Friday. But Friday is the day on which we publish new articles in the Interpreter Foundation’s journal. I spell this out here as clearly as I can, so as not to confuse and upset one of our readers, who has previously imagined that, by posting... Read more

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2025-08-28T11:07:34-06:00

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Shall we not go on in so great a cause?

Last updated on: August 28, 2025 at 11:07 am By Dan Peterson

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A new article of mine has gone up in Meridian Magazine: “Brigham Young, Race, and Slavery: Reexamining Utah’s 1852 Service Act.” If you can bear to do so, please feel free to take a look at it. Also on the subject of Brigham Young, we were back again today in the Pioneer Memorial Museum in Salt Lake City — the headquarters of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers — for more filming. The footage that we obtain there will... Read more

2025-08-26T21:41:34-06:00

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Good and Faithful Servants

Last updated on: August 26, 2025 at 9:41 pm By Dan Peterson

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On Sunday night, at the recommendation of friends, my wife and I watched a film titled The Way. Telling the story of several people who are walking the famous pilgrimage route Camino de Santiago, it was directed by Emilio Estevez, who appears in it himself at several points, and it stars his father, Martin Sheen. With that recent viewing of the movie on my mind, my attention was caught by this article, which was not — but easily could have... Read more

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2025-08-25T14:58:36-06:00

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From the desk of an intellectually bankrupt Mopologist

Last updated on: August 25, 2025 at 2:58 pm By Dan Peterson

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Up today on the immutable and unchanging website of the Interpreter Foundation: “The Interpreter Foundation Podcast — August 14, 2025: Plausibility Structures, Intellectuals, and the Church’s Truth Claims; The Interpreter Foundation Birthday Party During the 14 August 2025 episode of the Interpreter Foundation Podcast, our hosts Terry Hutchinson, Kevin Christensen, and Mark Johnson discussed an article on plausibility on the Times and Seasons blog (https://timesandseasons.org/ and the 13th annual Interpreter Foundation Birthday Party. The audio track is also included... Read more

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2025-08-24T17:56:33-06:00

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De mortuis nil nisi bonum

Last updated on: August 24, 2025 at 5:56 pm By Dan Peterson

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“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?” (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956) I continue to be hammered over at the Peterson Obsession Board for... Read more

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2025-08-23T21:05:45-06:00

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In which I once again object to certain rhetoric

Last updated on: August 23, 2025 at 9:05 pm By Dan Peterson

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On Wednesday last, I posted a blog entry (“On Dealing With “Scum” Who’ve Entered Our Country Illegally”) in which I took issue with an ostensible Latter-day Saint over at the “LDS Freedom Forum” who calls himself “Fred.” I objected to his use of such terms as scum to refer to illegal immigrants to the United States. I’ve since learned that “Fred” has also used words like monkoids and chimps for people who don’t share his particular skin pigmentation, and... Read more

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2025-08-22T12:31:57-06:00

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I can easily imagine worse deaths

Last updated on: August 22, 2025 at 12:31 pm By Dan Peterson

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Two new articles went up today on the perpetually unchanging website of the Interpreter Foundation. The first of them is “Death by Chocolate: Considering the Wine Imbibed by the Lamanite Guards,” written by Noel Hudson Abstract: This article examines two instances in the Book of Mormon in which captives escape through the negligence of drunken and sleeping guards. It suggests that details about the wine used to intoxicate the Lamanite guards in the city of Gid provide support for... Read more

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