[delacoert]

Continuing to find articles on "LDS religious niceness" as started in Does Religion Make You Nice? Does atheism make you mean?

[gorush]

It’s not you, it’s me.

[pnh102]

I despise the movie “Bambi.” To this day I still see the hunter who killed Bambi’s mom as doing a favor for the person who would have hit her while driving a car.

[maine-iac7]

"Thumper??! An oppressive tyrant??! Get a grip, Julie!")

Dear Julie - get the facts right. Geeese, you're blaming and accusing Thumper for something he never STATED but only repeated what his FATHER taught him.

Thumper had make a remark about Flower, the skunk.

Thumper's MOTHER admonished him with "Thumper. What did your father tell you this morning?"

Thumper, hanging his head. answered: "If you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all."

One doesn't take great stock in what a writer writes when an error is one of the first things written he/she writes. ;o)

[dragonblustar]

Clairee Belcher from Steel Magnolias- Well, you know what they say: if you don't have anything nice to say about anybody, come sit by me!

[dragonblustar]

I’ve gone to a doctor’s office where all the people working there were Mormons and the women were exactly like that.

[PzLdr]

My Pop always told me, “If you can’t think of something nice to say, think of something else.”.

[maine-iac7]

Good golly, Miss Molly. What a long and convoluted screed - with a dig at the LDS tossed in for - what?

I can see why the author is so enamored of the writer/book, Phyllis Chesler. She seems to've found a kindred soul: one who was bit by her mother as an infant and 'mistreated' by every female since. (I wonder, do these women who find such unhappiness around them, for ever and ever, ever think: "what is the common denominator. Might it be - gasp - ME?"

Her book (Chesler, an uber feminist,)(according to a review: " is actually an extended bit of "soap Oprah" in which Chesler, in between the extensive quotes, grinds many an axe against all the women she deems to have offended (i.e., disagreed with) or mistreated her, especially her mother. The book could easily have been titled, "My Mother's Inhumanity to Me." Chesler, is of course, always more sinned against than sinning. No doubt being a self-proclaimed feminist icon tends to make you think that way."

Why on earth bring poor Thumper - or the LDS women - into it, except maybe trying to lend some humanity to it?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Sounds more like passive aggression than niceness.

[yldstrk]

The Bible does say to use words for building up...........

LDS, does that mean Latter Day Saints?

Have to consider the source........