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Orson Scott Card: Big Love? Big Deal
National Review Online ^
| March 13, 2009
| Orson Scott Card
Posted on 03/13/2009 11:25:57 AM PDT by neverdem
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posted on
03/13/2009 11:25:57 AM PDT
by
neverdem
To: neverdem
Good for him. I loved his Ender books, and apparently he’s a sincere person of faith.
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posted on
03/13/2009 11:27:27 AM PDT
by
BlueStateBlues
(Blue State for business, Red State at heart.........Palin, 2012--can't come soon enough.)
To: neverdem
It would be an interesting comparison to see HBO do a series about polygamy in the Muslim world. Something tells me the reaction of the “moderate Muslims” wouldn’t be nearly as restrained as that of the Mormons.
}:-)4
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posted on
03/13/2009 11:29:51 AM PDT
by
Moose4
(Hey RNC. Don't move toward the middle. MOVE THE MIDDLE TOWARD YOU.)
To: neverdem
why would any man engage in polygamy?
on mother in law is enough!
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posted on
03/13/2009 11:34:32 AM PDT
by
absolootezer0
(thank God for Chicago: makes Detroit look wholesome by comparison.)
To: Moose4
Yes, produce a “Hijab Love” or something, profile a year in the life of a typical Taliban family.
I think I’d get cable just to see that. They could have the lash the grandma episode, the acid in the face episode, the kill the rape victim episode. . .
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posted on
03/13/2009 11:34:56 AM PDT
by
Marie2
(Ora et labora)
To: neverdem
Orson Scott Card on NRO?!
Does this mean his conversion is complete?
He’s had some excellent articles recently.
(BTW, just finished the Shadow series. Great writer!)
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posted on
03/13/2009 11:41:16 AM PDT
by
astyanax
(Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in.' Ronald Reagan)
To: neverdem; Lando Lincoln; danneskjold; quidnunc; .cnI redruM; A Longer Name; A message; ...
Orson Scott Card - PING [please freepmail me if you want or don't want to be pinged to Orson Scott Card political articles]
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posted on
03/13/2009 11:41:46 AM PDT
by
Tolik
To: astyanax
He still considers himself a Democrat, amazingly enough. He’s kind of in that Southern vein of populist socially-conservative Rat that kept the South as the “Solid South” for so long—the Zell Miller type.
}:-)4
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posted on
03/13/2009 11:43:20 AM PDT
by
Moose4
(Hey RNC. Don't move toward the middle. MOVE THE MIDDLE TOWARD YOU.)
To: Marie2
“Hijab Love”! That would get a great reaction. I imagine the Muslim fundamentalist vote in CA was even more for Prop 8 than the Mormons. I know a handful of Mormon libertarians who would vote against it but there don’t seem to be many Islamic libertarians. I am sure Tom Hanks is getting ready to produce “Hijab Love” any day now.
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posted on
03/13/2009 11:43:42 AM PDT
by
azcap
To: absolootezer0
why would any man engage in polygamy?I've heard the Mormons stopped it because they decided it was against the Bible teachings in Matthew 6:24
"No man can serve two masters . . . "
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posted on
03/13/2009 11:49:53 AM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Are there any men left in Washington? Or, are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
To: greyfoxx39
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posted on
03/13/2009 12:00:40 PM PDT
by
reaganaut
(ex-mormon, now Christian. "I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see")
To: Tolik
To: Vigilanteman
“We just want to be left alone and practice our religion as we see fit”
“Then why did you knock on my door?”
“Because I want to talk to you about my church”
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posted on
03/13/2009 12:07:27 PM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: Moose4
Victor Davis Hansen is still a Democrat, too.
To: Moose4
the Zell Miller type.
It would be nice if we had a few more of those types (Democrats that actually know something about the Constitution.)
Heck, it would be nice if we had a few more Republicans like that!
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posted on
03/13/2009 12:19:52 PM PDT
by
astyanax
(Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in.' Ronald Reagan)
To: neverdem
I have an idea for a reluctant, tightwad, polygamist with 5 wives, who hates kids called “Big Glove”. He is too cheap to buy condoms so he uses a rubber glove.
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posted on
03/13/2009 12:25:08 PM PDT
by
SERKIT
("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
To: absolootezer0
To: absolootezer0
There are times that I think one is too much!
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posted on
03/13/2009 12:29:48 PM PDT
by
sheik yerbouty
( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
To: AppyPappy; colorcountry; Colofornian; Elsie; FastCoyote; svcw; Zakeet; SkyPilot; rightazrain; ...
Mormons have always been the exception to Americas policy of religious tolerance. Throughout our history in America, Mormons have been oppressed by government, killed or driven out by mobs, slandered, and libeled always by fellow Americans who professed to believe in religious tolerance.
FMA: Persecution of the Mormon Church
"The True Church is always persecuted, and the Mormons have always been persecuted."
Mormon claims of persecution as evidence of truth must founder on these facts:
- Persecution, however intense, or even martyrdom, cannot prove the truth of the victims' beliefs. Every religion has its martyrs, and yet no Mormon would accept the persecution of Islamic martyrs, or the persecution of the Baha'i or the Falun Gong, as evidence that those religions are true.
- Although history shows that Mormons were persecuted, history also shows that it was not for their theology, but for their goal of establishing a Mormon theocracy wherever they settled, to the justified resentment of the non-Mormon population.
- Mormons have never suffered persecution such as was visited upon the Jews of Europe, the pagans of the fourth and fifth century Roman empire (where Christianity had recently become the official state religion), the native religions of America during the European conquest, especially by the Spanish, or any number of other persecutions where one group forcefully imposes its religion on another. At the present time, the Baha'i in present-day Iran and the Falun Gong in China have suffered much greater persecution than Mormons. Nowhere have the Mormons been forced to abandon their religion under threat of death or harm. (The Mormon abandonment of the practice of polygamy in 1890 merely "forced" them to follow their own Article of Faith stating that they believe in obeying the law.)
Their claim of persecution generally ignores the persecutions inflicted by the Mormons themselves on their opponents. This is usually because the source of information about their "persecution" is the Mormons themselves. They make much of the Haun's Mill Massacre, but say nothing about the Mormon mob burning the town of Gallatin. They say nothing about the Mountain Meadows Massacre, where Mormons slaughtered 150 innocent and unarmed immigrants. They don't tell you how they drove David Whitmer, Oliver Cowdery and others from their homes under threat of death. They don't tell you about their persecution of the Godbeites in Utah.
Mormons also seem to believe that disagreeing with them and pointing out the errors of their religion is a form of persecution. This very attitude shows that they really know nothing first-hand about being really persecuted.
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posted on
03/13/2009 12:30:20 PM PDT
by
greyfoxx39
(Recession-Your neighbor loses his job, Depression-you lost your job, Recovery-Obama loses HIS job.)
To: SERKIT
Yeah, but then wouldn’t he have to have five...
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posted on
03/13/2009 12:33:28 PM PDT
by
pappyone
(New to Freep, still working a tag line.)
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