Leonard Arrington Testimony

[_moksha]

These guys look capable of unearthing many additional testimonies.

[_Daniel Peterson]

These guys look capable of unearthing many additional testimonies.

Except they can't read.

[_RockSlider]

Wow Dr. P, kind of like you teleported back to your pre-leave of MDB … right back to seventh heaven here aren’t you.

[_DaniteMason]

These guys look capable of unearthing many additional testimonies.

Except they can't read.

Ah, Ah, Ah Dr. Dan, let's not get too far ahead of ourselves. The Berenstain Bears and the Case of the Malevolent Stalker (Salt Lake City: Cassius University Press, 2009) is one of my personal favorites.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/65952442@N04/6004700466/

[_Buffalo]

Arrington came to me while I was in the temple. He says he's converted to Judaism now, but thanks anyway, Dr. Peterson.

[_jon]

Arrington came to me while I was in the temple. He says he's converted to Judaism now, but thanks anyway, Dr. Peterson.

I see he's been chatting with Roberts and Nibley then...

[_Kevin Graham]

the last statement you provided was given nearly a decade before his death.

Leonard Arrington's Adventures of a Church Historian was published on 1 May 1998.

Leonard Arrington died on 11 February 1999.

That's not nearly ten years. That's just over nine months.

Moreover, your insinuation notwithstanding , the entry always included complete bibliographical information, including page numbers, for the book from which Professor Arrington's testimony was excerpted.

I stand corrected. I don't remember seeing it the first time, but I probably didn't read closely enough.

[_Daniel Peterson]

Thank you, Kevin.

It really leaves the impression that you've exhausted your supply of live scholars

Astonishingly, another live scholar's testimony appeared, as if by magic, this very morning! Yet another person who, by allowing his name to be associated with mine, has probably destroyed his life:

http://mormonscholarstestify.org/2624/david-peterson

The impression reported by MM, that I've exhausted my supply of live scholars, should pass quickly among any who are so afflicted -- at least for those of them who can read. If not, they should take two aspirin and call their doctors.

Perhaps it will now be objected that I've been reduced, in my desperate straits, to calling upon relatives for testimonies. The only reply I can muster to that charge -- admittedly a pathetic one, and probably a lie-- is that, so far as I know, David Peterson isn't a relative of mine.

[_Buffalo]

Thank you, Kevin.

It really leaves the impression that you've exhausted your supply of live scholars

Astonishingly, another live scholar's testimony appeared, as if by magic, this very morning! Yet another person who, by allowing his name to be associated with mine, has probably destroyed his life:

http://mormonscholarstestify.org/2624/david-peterson

The impression reported by MM, that I've exhausted my supply of live scholars, should pass quickly among any who are so afflicted -- at least for those of them who can read. If not, they should take two aspirin and call their doctors.

Perhaps it will now be objected that I've been reduced, in my desperate straits, to calling upon relatives for testimonies. The only reply I can muster to that charge -- admittedly a pathetic one, and probably a lie-- is that, so far as I know, David Peterson isn't a relative of mine.

It's okay. I've baptized him by proxy into the the International Atheist Congregation for Christ. Spiritually he has accepted the ordinance, even if he doesn't know it yet.

[_Daniel Peterson]

On Friday afternoon, at the FAIR conference, I intend to quote several dead people.

Publicly.

Shamelessly.

Hideously.

I'm not going to ask permission to do this.

Even if the police show up.