Expressions of Faith: Testimonies of Latter-day Saint Scholars<\/em><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
My entry includes the following passage:<\/p>\n
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The building up of Zion is a cause that has interested the people of God in every age; it is a theme upon which prophets, priests and kings have dwelt with peculiar delight; they have looked forward with joyful anticipation to the day in which we live; and fired with heavenly and joyful anticipations they have sung and written and prophesied of this our day; but they died without the sight; we are the favored people that God has made choice of to bring about the Latter-day glory; it is left for us to see, participate in and help to roll forward the Latter-day glory. . . . And whilst we are thus united in the one common cause, to roll forth the kingdom of God, the heavenly Priesthood are not idle spectators, the Spirit of God will be showered down from above, and it will dwell in our midst. The blessings of the Most High will rest upon our tabernacles, and our name will be handed down to future ages; our children will rise up and call us blessed; and generations yet unborn will dwell with peculiar delight upon the scenes that we have passed through, the privations that we have endured; the untiring zeal that we have manifested; the all but insurmountable difficulties that we have overcome in laying the foundation of a work that brought about the glory and blessing which they will realize; a work that God and angels have contemplated with delight for generations past; that fired the souls of the ancient patriarchs and prophets; a work that is destined to bring about the destruction of the powers of darkness, the renovation of the earth, the glory of God, and the salvation of the human family.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
My Malevolent Stalker made merry over the fiery biblical rhetoric of that passage, and over my apparent pretense to something like prophethood. \u00a0\u201cWow!\u201d chimed in his much less gifted wannabe, whom I call my Mini-Stalker. \u00a0\u201cPeterson really holds himself in high regard. Peterson\u2019s name will be handed down to future generations? I can\u2019t believe he really wrote that.\u201d \u00a0Poor Mini-Stalker practically had to grasp for his smelling salts in order not to swoon at my \u201csmug sense of self importance and arrogance,\u201d my \u201cenormous ego\u201d and \u201cnarcissistic personality.\u201d \u00a0\u201cUnbelievable,\u201d he wrote. \u00a0\u201cJust unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n
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But then it was realized that the words aren\u2019t mine at all<\/em>. \u00a0They\u2019re quoted from Joseph Smith.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Oops.<\/p>\n
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And suddenly, at that point, the narrative turned on a dime: \u00a0I had\u00a0plagarized<\/em>\u00a0Joseph Smith, you see, \u201cword for word.\u201d Without credit.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Oh my.<\/p>\n
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Please see the photos above, taken from the book itself. \u00a0Please notice the indenting that indicates a block quotation. \u00a0Please notice the reference to HC 4:609-619.<\/p>\n
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This little episode offers a clear object lesson on how consuming malice can cloud one\u2019s vision, making obvious things invisible and replacing them with phantasms, specters, and fictions.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The lidless, unsleeping, malignant eye of my Malevolent Stalker, always on the hunt for material that he might be able to abuse and twist in order to portray me as mean-spirited, corrupt, and depraved to the core, recently discovered a personal essay that I published in a 1996 anthology that was edited […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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