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Radio Free Mormon

Radio Free Mormon: 082: Daniel Peterson Defends His Honor

Radio Free Mormon

Mormon Discussion Inc

Religion & Spirituality

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

RFM having seen Dan Peterson post not one but two blog posts in response to RFM episode #69, revisits Dan obfuscation around having been dishonest about the suppression of First Vision accounts and how Dan is trying to help his loyal followers make sense of his words.

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And the Testing one, two three, testing one, two one two three this is radio free Mormon on the air

0:27.6

Broadcasting behind enemy lines tonight's episode. We have some breaking news for you.

0:33.2

Today's date is June 11th, 2019 and you will recall that only two days ago

0:39.6

on Sunday June 9th, 2019, I released a podcast titled Daniel C Peterson, the Artful Dodger of

0:47.2

Mormon Apologetics.

0:49.3

In that podcast, I talked about how one year ago in the Deseret News article

0:54.4

Professor Daniel C Peterson of Brigham Young University

0:57.8

wrote a column regarding the First Vision accounts

1:00.5

and overstepped the bounds of propriety by actually telling an untruth, a mendacity,

1:06.6

what lesser minds would call a lie.

1:08.5

And that he did this when he said, point blank, there has been no suppression of the First Vision accounts. In that

1:14.4

episode I went back and talked about all of the different things that were going

1:18.6

on behind the scenes in comments on different blog posts.

1:22.8

Some of them comments by Daniel C. Peterson in which he said

1:26.2

that he would respond to this allegation,

1:28.4

but he wouldn't do it a year ago.

1:30.1

Instead, he would do it when he felt like it, when he got around to it, and he would do it in a place and time of his choosing.

1:37.6

Well apparently my podcast from two days ago was the straw that broke the professor's back and before the sun went down.

1:45.0

Last Sunday, June 9th, 2019, the same day that my podcast released, Daniel C. Peterson went to his

1:51.3

blog post at Sick Eet Nahn in order to respond to this allegation.

1:55.6

Now I do not know what has happened in the past year to suddenly get Dan Peterson off

2:00.6

the dime and responding to this issue, but plainly I've hit a nerve and not only did

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