Comments on: That’s No Good http://larison.org/2007/11/05/thats-no-good/ n. the principle of good order "Observe the strange inversion of all order and sense! Dignity debased; how vilely is the function of a consul prostituted!" ~The Craftsman Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:48:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Solent http://larison.org/2007/11/05/thats-no-good/#comment-8014 Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:47:28 +0000 http://larison.org/2007/11/05/thats-no-good/#comment-8014 "I have noted this before, but it strikes me as particularly strange symbolism for someone interested in “defending and restoring Western, Judeo-Christian culture” to endorse a candidate who does not really represent the main religious tradition at the heart of that culture." Well, plenty of Christians don't seem to want to vote for a Mormon, and you're one of them. You can frame this as wanting to "symbolically uphold tradition" or whatever, but it's just prejudice. C'mon. You think they're fake Christians, and you're right. A lot of our "real" Christians are pretty fake too. What about snake-handlers? Frothin', quakin' Pentecostals? Self-Helping (-Worshipping) Evangelicals? Are these folks upholders enough of tradition for you? What silliness. Mormons are part of the surreal American religious sideshow...except the sideshow is really second stage in this country right now, as it includes about one in five people. Given our advanced stage of cultural decay, I'd chill out about who is and isn't godly in the right publicly symbolic ways. If you think he can't be elected, fine--that's another question--but it's not like he would be a really real Christian if he were, say, a Year 2007 Episcopalian. “I have noted this before, but it strikes me as particularly strange symbolism for someone interested in “defending and restoring Western, Judeo-Christian culture” to endorse a candidate who does not really represent the main religious tradition at the heart of that culture.”

Well, plenty of Christians don’t seem to want to vote for a Mormon, and you’re one of them. You can frame this as wanting to “symbolically uphold tradition” or whatever, but it’s just prejudice. C’mon. You think they’re fake Christians, and you’re right. A lot of our “real” Christians are pretty fake too. What about snake-handlers? Frothin’, quakin’ Pentecostals? Self-Helping (-Worshipping) Evangelicals? Are these folks upholders enough of tradition for you? What silliness. Mormons are part of the surreal American religious sideshow…except the sideshow is really second stage in this country right now, as it includes about one in five people. Given our advanced stage of cultural decay, I’d chill out about who is and isn’t godly in the right publicly symbolic ways. If you think he can’t be elected, fine–that’s another question–but it’s not like he would be a really real Christian if he were, say, a Year 2007 Episcopalian.

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