It's been pointed out Peterson didn't do this to his parents, and I will concede that that is the case. I still feel that using his parent's situation, whether he contributed to it or not, as an example whereby he can disparage people who are non-lds, is inappropriate.Marcus wrote: ↑Fri Jan 21, 2022 6:54 amPeterson, in his efforts to brag about Mormon wards, let slip some horrifying information about how he treated his (apparently non-lds member) parents in their final years.His parent's neighbors weren't even aware they died? I'm sensing a lot of shame and dismissal of parents who apparently didn't fit his requirement of 'active-lds-ness.'By contrast, my parents spent their last three decades in an upscale California neighborhood where there was seldom any contact of any kind with the people who lived on either side of them or across the street. They were all past the age when they had kids in school and ran into each other at PTA meetings, so they had virtually nothing in common, nothing to bring them together. They sometimes waved at each other across the street, but that was essentially it. When my parents died, nobody from their neighborhood attended the services. I doubt that any of the neighbors even knew.
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That's horrifying. To abandon elderly parents because they don't fit his definition of lds-ness is abominable. Peterson likes to brag about his father's military efforts, but he apparently didn't admire him enough to make sure his final years were cared for. Instead, he apparently chalked his parents' situation up to non-lds inactivity, and left them alone and lonely. That's shameful.
Additionally, Peterson himself has acknowledged elsewhere that even in his own life the lds model of neighborhood 'care' is artificial, when he noted that when the ward boundary lines changed and ran down his street, he stopped interacting with neighbors who literally lived across the street from him. Bragging about forced interactions isn't saying much about neighborliness, and pulling his parents into it because they apparently didn't have that forced interaction, is even less honorable.