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In a comment on a video about the benefits of religion, Alan makes this sweeping generalisation about parents… Good video. I seriously agree with Haidt on the matters he is discussing. I don't hold out much hope for what he is proposing, however, for two reasons. (1) change takes work, and most adul...

This Deseret News article by Samuel Wilkinson caught my attention: “Want to be happy? Try helping other people: The author of ‘Purpose’ explains the benefits of helping others, with no thought of reward.” https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeterson/2024/05/observations-on-two-simple-passages.html The...

Does this mean FAIR thinks the official Church essays haven’t done a good enough job?

What's so funny is that he's been claiming over and over that he was hamstrung by the Church's own rules. But of course, he's only doing this after the fact. None of his old blog entries show him lifting so much as a pinkie finger to check up on Frenchy's records, or anything like that. Heck, he di...

During a recent open house and media day for a new house of the Lord, I led a group of journalists on a tour through the sacred structure. I described the purposes of temples in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and responded to their many excellent questions. Before entering the cele...

Sometimes trying to support lds theology over all else really ties the arguments up in knots. Here's a certain mopologist explaining the nature of relationships after death: ...here are some examples of Christian (and other) marriage vows that I’ve easily located online. They demonstrate that the d...

In the discussion on Frenchy's situation, a poster offered this: The brethren ask us to vote is enough for me to believe that it is the right thing to do. Beyond that, families could not exist if every person took time to calculate if a particular action yielded more benefits than costs. No ward or...

My mother died on 11 April 2005. I think it was on our first visit to the cemetery after my mother’s passing that my wife and I, driving up the rather steep hill toward my parents’ graves, noticed an elderly man who was toiling painfully up the road. We pulled over and asked him whether he could us...

Heres DCP's reason for not doing Frenchy's temple work: ...Having never known nor even met any other member of Frenchy Morrell’s family, and having met Frenchy himself only once, briefly and years ago, and being neither his undivorced spouse nor his adult child nor his father or mother or brother o...

So did Tangeta violate this? That’s a very good point, Rivendale. Back when tangata was kissing Dr. Peterson’s butt about this, DCP declared that this apparent violation of Church policy was “Wonderful!” You see: the rules don’t matter when DCP is angling for clicks on his blog; when that’s the goa...