Patriarch
Miles Pratt Romney
Mitt
Romney's polygamist great-grandfather
***
Personally, I see no problem with Romney's candidacy. He was -- by far! -- the best Republican in the entire clownish "field."
What baffles me is how right-wing "Good Christians" could support a "Christian" cultist.
Remarkably, Billy Graham scrubbed his website of its "Mormon Cult Warning" just before November 6th when he - and his appallingly meanspirited son, Franklin - declared their support for Linguine Spine.
Dear T,
I'm reading "Under The Banner Of
Heaven" by Jon
Krakauer. It is the culmination to my year-long study of Joseph Smith and
Mormonism.
http://www.amazon.com/Under-
(Ron Howard is making the
book into a movie. http://www.nbcnewyork.
"Banner" flashes
before your eyes, does everything but turn its own pages. http://paxonbothhouses.
I marvel that Christian
"fundamentalists" supported Romney -- largely by diligent ignorance
of Mormon culture -- and wonder how they will reflect on their
self-delusion.
Personally, I see no problem with Romney's candidacy. He was -- by far! -- the best Republican in the entire clownish "field."
What baffles me is how right-wing "Good Christians" could support a "Christian" cultist.
Remarkably, Billy Graham scrubbed his website of its "Mormon Cult Warning" just before November 6th when he - and his appallingly meanspirited son, Franklin - declared their support for Linguine Spine.
There is something wrong with
Mormon culture and it relates to polygamy and patriarchy.
Notably, Romney's great
grandfather fled the United States to co-found a polygamous "mission"
in Mexico. Later, Mitt's Dad lived in this patriarchal enclave before
returning, destitute, to the United States. According to Mitt's Mom, George
Romney survived immigration by virtue of welfare handouts. Although George
Romney had genuine need for welfare, it is now the case that many Mormon
country folk -- trans-generational participants in brutal and brutalizing
culture -- strategize stem-to-stern parasitizaion of welfare agencies, in large
part to support multiple wives and dozens of children. http://www.boston.com/
Despite Utah's "picture
perfect" quality, the "denied shadow" takes a heavy toll on this
most clinically-depressed state in the union with significanlty more women on
anti-depressants than anywhere else in America. http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/story?id=4403731&page=1
Why does "70%
Mormon" Utah have twice the national average of depression? http://www.exmormon.org/mormon/mormon521.htm
Why are so many rural Mormons
deliberately dependent on welfare?
Read "Under The Banner Of Heaven.”
It reads like an Agatha
Christie mystery.
***
The fellow next to me in my
blog photo is Bruce Cockburn, a Canadian musician-composer-singer who provides
the "sound track" to my life.
I draw your attention to
his most "mystical" song, "Strange Waters."
Studio version: http://www.youtube.
Live version: http://www.youtube.
"Last Night Of The
World" is another great song.
Studio version: http://www.youtube.
Live version: http://www.youtube.
Bruce's biography,
"Kicking at the Darkness: Bruce Cockburn and the Christian
Imagination" is reviewed at http://paxonbothhouses.
Love
Alan
PS Speaking of depression,
you may enjoy Leonard Cohen's interview at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugh8Xe6hX7U
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