Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 833

Don’t those angel statues on Mormon temples violate the Ten Commandments?

    Robert Boylan responds to a rather surprising argument leveled by some against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:   http://scripturalmormonism.blogspot.c...    

“Attacks in Lebanon: The ‘New York Times’ gets it right – the targets were Christians”

    http://www.getreligion.org/getreligio...    

“Donald Trump, Man of Faith”

    http://www.firstthings.com/article/20...    

“Inmates break free from cell to help ill jailer”

    Thanks to Eric Lopez for calling this very nice story to my attention:   http://www.12news.com/news/nation-now...   I hope that these inmates receive some sort of reward for their action.   I think that the satisfaction that they’ve already received for doing something truly good could even be life-changing for them.    

Losing sight of the obvious

    “The obvious is the hardest thing of all to point out to anyone who has genuinely lost sight of it.” Owen Barfield        

“Venus, not Earth, may have been our Solar System’s best chance at life”

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/startswit...    

“Mitt Romney ‘in it to win it'”

    Ugo Perego brings this hopeful item to my attention:   https://www.the-newshub.com/us-politi...   Color me skeptical.  But I would be delighted — delighted — if it were true.    

Determinism?

    We must believe in free will, we have no choice.  (Isaac Bashevis Singer)  

Weird Science: “The Alluring Look of a Like-Minded Liberal”

    Does political sympathy make people more beautiful in our eyes?  Here’s a curious bit of social-science research:   https://psmag.com/the-alluring-look-o...    

“Joseph Smith and the Doctrine of Sealing”

    This week’s new article in Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture has appeared:   Joseph Smith and the Doctrine of Sealing