Every once in a while, I put together a testimony for an exceptionally prominent deceased LDS scholar and post it on "Mormon Scholars Testify." This one seems particularly relevant to the claim, advanced by some critics, that Mormon history has been systematically falsified, and that the truth can only be had from critics:
http://mormonscholarstestify.org/2620/l ... -arrington
Leonard Arrington Testimony
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Okay, wow. This is just hideous. What a desecration of Arrington's legacy. How in the hell did you get authorization to do this, Dan? For heaven's sake, take it down. Don't smear the man via association with your rancid projects. To claim that what you've done is cheap and opportunistic is a gross understatement. Take this down immediately. My God. How horrifying.
"[I]f, while hoping that everybody else will be honest and so forth, I can personally prosper through unethical and immoral acts without being detected and without risk, why should I not?." --Daniel Peterson, 6/4/14
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Doctor Scratch wrote:Okay, wow. This is just hideous. What a desecration of Arrington's legacy. How in the hell did you get authorization to do this, Dan? For heaven's sake, take it down. Don't smear the man via association with your rancid projects. Take this down immediately. My God. How horrifying.
What a ludicrous response.
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It's not ludicrous at all, Dan. Get it off of there. How can you feel good about pillaging the man's work for your own dumb crusades? Seriously: who gave you permission to do this? This is sick.
"[I]f, while hoping that everybody else will be honest and so forth, I can personally prosper through unethical and immoral acts without being detected and without risk, why should I not?." --Daniel Peterson, 6/4/14
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A friend correctly notes that Kenneth Godfrey's recent entry is also relevant here:
http://mormonscholarstestify.org/2593/kenneth-w-godfrey
http://mormonscholarstestify.org/2593/kenneth-w-godfrey
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argumentum ad verecundiam ad mortis
Parley P. Pratt wrote:We must lie to support brother Joseph, it is our duty to do so.
B.R. McConkie, © Intellectual Reserve wrote:There are those who say that revealed religion and organic evolution can be harmonized. This is both false and devilish.
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Buffalo: Dare pondus idonea fumo.
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Daniel Peterson wrote:Buffalo: Dare pondus idonea fumo.
Vescere bracis meis.
Parley P. Pratt wrote:We must lie to support brother Joseph, it is our duty to do so.
B.R. McConkie, © Intellectual Reserve wrote:There are those who say that revealed religion and organic evolution can be harmonized. This is both false and devilish.
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Sick . . . et non.
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Daniel Peterson wrote:Sick . . . et non.
Mater tua criceta fuit, et pater tuo redoluit bacarum sambucus.
Parley P. Pratt wrote:We must lie to support brother Joseph, it is our duty to do so.
B.R. McConkie, © Intellectual Reserve wrote:There are those who say that revealed religion and organic evolution can be harmonized. This is both false and devilish.