My Column in the "Mormon Times"

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Re: My Column in the "Mormon Times"

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Daniel Peterson wrote:Both belief in the Book of Mormon and rejection of it require a leap of faith, he says. Hence his book's title. "I believe it," he announces in his closing words. "I have made the leap of faith."


How does it require a leap of faith to reject an extraordinary claim?
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Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
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Daniel Peterson wrote:Today's stench in Eric's nostrils:

http://www.mormontimes.com/article/2001 ... th-charity


This is probably one of your better essays that I've read. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
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Thank you.
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Although we obviously shouldn't be surprised at it, the church's human side is sometimes jarring and, if permitted, can cause disillusionment. It's urgently important, therefore, for our own sake, that we "clothe (our)selves with the bond of charity, as with a mantle, which is the bond of perfectness and peace" (Doctrine and Covenants 88:125). Failure to do so can be spiritually lethal.

"For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged," Jesus taught, "and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again" (Matthew 7:2). Christians worldwide regularly pray, rather dangerously, that the Lord "forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors."


I think this is a wonderful message and it sounds so much more like Jesus than that "righteous judges in Israel stuff", which seems to grant permission to judge other's errors while ignoring our own. As they would say in the Las Vegas Ratpack, "Check out the love, mercy and forgiveness baby".

Keep up the good work!
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Speaking of forgiveness, do you think Satan ever gets an invitation for the family Christmas dinner?
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Daniel Peterson wrote:Today's stew of vicious lies:

http://www.mormontimes.com/article/2010 ... -and-trust


Let me summarize:

Mormonism (and Christianity in general) promise more to believers than atheism.

Got it.

ETA: isn't this just another variation of "put it on the shelf"?
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Daniel Peterson wrote:Today's stew of vicious lies:

http://www.mormontimes.com/article/2010 ... -and-trust


Not bad. Thank you for not taking the Glenn Beck approach to this natural disaster.
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