Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1260

“Guardians of the Galaxy”

    My wife and I just got back from watching the latest Marvel Comics movie.   I’ve seen really positive reviews for it, but, truth be told, I was a bit disappointed.  I knew it would be summer fluff, but there was a bit less there than even I had expected.  It’s amusing, though, [Read More...]

“President Obama Lied about Obamacare”

      As at least two people have pointed out, I get all of my news and “facts” from Sean Hannity, whom I very seldom watch and whose radio show I’ve rarely heard and have never heard for its entire length, and from Fox News.   They’re right, of course.   For many years, Sean [Read More...]

Richard Dawkins walks into a metaphorical buzz saw

    The vocal and seemingly omnipresent atheist Richard Dawkins hasn’t done himself many favors with this one:   http://www.theguardian.com/commentisf...    

Three political cartoons

  From the two-time Pulitzer-Prize-winning cartoonist Michael Ramirez:          

I finally understand!

    I’ve puzzled, over the years, about how a few of my more deranged critics find the time to follow virtually everything I do and say so closely.  I’ve wondered how they can possibly hold down jobs (assuming, of course, perhaps without much justification, that they do) or ever even emerge, blinking and — for once [Read More...]

“The Hope of God’s Light”

    A powerful conversion story:   http://www.mormonchannel.org/video/mo...    

“Of families, games, and religion — but perhaps not as you were expecting”

    http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...    

Heute ist, unter anderem, die Schweizer Bundesfeier gewesen!

    I would like to wish my Swiss friends — and, for that matter, everybody else — a happy Swiss National Day.   1 August is the day on which the birth of Switzerland is celebrated.  Representatives of the three Waldstätten or “forest cantons” — of Uri, Schwyz (from which modern German Schweiz and [Read More...]

“Changes in the Book of Mormon”

    I apologize for being late with this notice.  I spent a very pleasant day at a family gathering today up in one of the small canyons above Salt Lake City, but there was, as I knew there would be, no internet reception there.   However, The Interpreter Foundation continues to purr along whether [Read More...]

Bart Ehrman, Craig Evans, and the Burial of Jesus

    The prolific atheist-leaning agnostic New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman, who teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, recently published a book entitled How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee.   It has received quite a lot of attention, and has been heartily welcomed by religious [Read More...]