[chuck]Another entry delving into Mormonism! This time, we dissect a speech given by Boyd K. Packer in August of 1981 to church educators. It is a concise guide to Packer’s view of how historical research ought to be performed, both in general and most specifically for the history of Mormonism and its leaders. The speech highlights the dangers of scholarship to LDS faith (a refrain we’ve heard before from other religions), is remarkably oblivious to its own internal contradictions, and even makes an ugly call to refrain from disseminating things that are “true, but not useful.”
Leighton and I make our commentary on this bald appeal to lie by omission here.
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For those interested, the fire engines heard during this podcast were due to a fire two floors above me. Three fire engines showed up to take care of things in my building, but have no fear, despite the fiery depths threatening to take me I pressed forward to bring the truth to our three listeners. That and I was completely oblivious to my building being on fire because I didn’t look out my window.
aren’t you the super? shouldn’t you have been out there with a bucket or something?
Why must you bring up such small details like that? It doesn’t help anybody to point out the facts. After all, some things are true, but they’re not very useful.