Posted by
skep41 on Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:32:55 PM
Defaming
Mormons is almost as much fun as reviling Born-Again Christians if you
have one of those mind-numbingly dull jobs writing for a major
newspaper. Not that there's much difference between the two in the Ivy
League educated mind, where any religion, even New Age Idiocies like
Wiccan are looked at with sneering contempt. These guys are too busy in
their spare time painting their house green to reflect harmful Global
Warming-causing cosmic rays to wallow in irrational belief systems. But
nothing brightens a dull day at The Daily Blab like a good old
wacky-religious-cult-enslaves-with-kinky-and-brutal-fury story. They
can fulminate against these Mormon (make sure that word gets used alot
so that America will be alerted to the enemy within) polygamists who
kept their women permanently locked inside their compound where they
were reduced to total subservience, brainwashed by a weird and brutal
dogma of patriarchism and then traded like livestock among their close
male relatives. Lurid tales of fiftyish men and just-nubile women can
be flaunted to show the evils of Mormonism. Imagine the mental state
people who live like that are probably in. We should condemn any
religion where this type of arrangement is common, shouldnt we? Even if
it encompasses a billion people and a large chunk of the world's known
oil reserves, right? Because this is the type of society that breeds
terrorists. Osama Bin Laden, for example, was one of dozens of children
from young wives of a rich merchant. In Britain the incidence of
congenital birth defects, the frequency of which is increased greatly
by inbreeding, is astronomically higher in the Muslim community where
just-pubescent girls are often given in marriage to much-older male
relatives. The Houston compound wouldnt have raised a stir in Riyadh or
in rural villages from Morocco to Pakistan, its a totally acceptable
life-style. These are countries where female circumcision is accepted
and common, honor killings expected of the family. Traditional folks.
Not all Muslims do any of this (none of the modern cosmopolitan ones
do), or live this way but a much higher proportion of Muslims do than
Mormons so it must be okay to generalize like the New York Times does
to Mormons. Anyway, the Mormon church has renounced polygamy and Islam
isnt even thinking of any step toward female equality, the idea is
blasphemy. The 60 year old Prophet's eleventh wife was nine years old.
So
the next time the media get their hands on some fringe Christian
group and get one of these sneering laugh-fests going remember that
there are certainly Islamic compounds
in this country these geniuses could be snooping into which have practices every bit as brutal as the ones in Houston. We'll be waiting, guys!