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| Posted by: Tim McNabb |
5/28/2008 3:00 PM |
eing a Christian and accepting the foundational tenets of that faith
can lead, at least in my case, a certain intolerance for those faith
systems that run afoul of those tenets.
Few chap my hide quite like the mainstream Latter Day Saints (Mormons)
much less their
various and sundry weird freakin' sects. Please bear in mind that it is
the faith system I detest for theological reasons, not its
practitioners. I have great affection for individual Mormons (I voted
for Mitt Romney in the GOP primary).
My hostility stated, it is not my place to say what another man may
believe.
Faith is an issue between a man and God, and whatever delusion I think
another man is under is not materially different from the delusion I
lived under until I found faith, or more accurately, Faith found me.
If I had the authority, I would no more banish Mormonism than burn
books.
That said, I have to confess that I find the LDS sect in Texas
especially repugnant. The God I worship taught through his apostles
that men are to love and respect their wives, to care for their
families, to lead them in righteousness. At the risk of boasting, my
own marriage is one where we each are equals save for the
responsibility, which rests exclusively with me. The men who practice
this heretical faith I find odious and their dominated womenfolk quite
pathetic and pitiable if not somewhat contemptuous.
However, there are worse barbarisms than being a member of a polygamous cult.
The Texas Child Protective Services has succeeded in making the
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints sympathetic
in my eyes. Notwithstanding the underage girls pregnant and therefore
obviously victims of a crime - perhaps even a criminal conspiracy - the
rest of the mothers are guilty of nothing more than extraordinarily
lousy taste in men. So far, I have heard that the 90% of children
not directly part of a child-endangerment investigation are otherwise
hale and hearty save for whatever nutritional failures were imposed upon
them by Texas CPS while warehousing them and shipping them around the
state.
Do-Gooders are attracted to work like Child Protective Services.
Do-Gooders I have met are routinely hostile to faith in anything other
than The State. I suspect that the secular-minded Do-Gooders in this
case felt quite comfortable holding all members of this sect in
suspicion for simply being members of a religion other than Secularism.
It must never be that being unusual can empower the state to take your
children. The theology of the LDS is highly suspect, but the hazard is
to their soul, not to the health and well-being of their children. The
state has responsibility for the body and to a lesser extent the mind
not the soul nor does it have the authority to bring sanctions for
weirdness. Feed, clothe and treat your children gently and the state
ought to keep it's nose out of your life. |
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