Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1168

Active Latter-day Saints are manifestly inferior specimens of humanity.

    “Sadly, the Mormon faith has become a place that incentivizes the survival of the least fit. Since strict obedience is demanded and harshly enforced, only the least talented, least articulate, least nuanced thinkers, least likely to take a stand against abuse, and the least courageous people thrive in the Church today.” Kate Kelly, [Read More...]

“Spiritual but not religious”?

    Or “not religious, and not spiritual”?   http://www.christiancentury.org/revie...   In quest of a unicorn.    

A tradition from the Prophet Muhammad

    A hadith or tradition from the Prophet Muhammad, narrated on the authority of Anas, reports the Prophet as saying, “By Him in whose Hand is my life, no servant [of God] truly believes until he wants for his neighbor [or, one variant says, for his brother] whatever he wants for himself.” (From the [Read More...]

A thought about hate

    “Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.”  (Maya Angelou)  

President Kimball on science and religion

    “Modern scientific findings harmonize with revelation through the ages. No conflict exists between the gospel and any truth. . . .  All true principles are a part of the gospel of Jesus Christ. There is no principle that we need to fear.” Spencer W. Kimball    

I’ll be there tonight, in sha’a Allah

“Fifty Shades of Grey”

    I think I was among the last to hear about the novel Fifty Shades of Grey.  It was already a publishing phenomenon when it first swam across my radar screen.   I’ve never leafed through it.  I’ve never held it.  I’m not sure I’ve ever so much as seen a copy.   But [Read More...]

New Testament 67

    Matthew 6:25-34 Compare 12:22-32.   These verses contain some of the most stunningly impractical and even, in a sense, dangerous and irresponsible advice in the Sermon on the Mount.   Who could possibly survive, living in this manner?  Do you really want to belong to a society where nobody worries about, or takes [Read More...]

“Historicity and the problem of ‘getting at’ the past”

    The latest installment of the biweekly Deseret News column written by William Hamblin and yr obd’t servant is now up:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...    

“Dear Justice Kennedy: An Open Letter from the Child of a Loving Gay Parent”

    Another of those stories which, if it pointed the other way and if I were to doubt it or in any way fail to take it at face value, would reveal me (at this point, I should think, rather redundantly) to be a cold-hearted, bigoted, and unfeeling cad who’s indifferent, because of his fanaticism, [Read More...]