tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post6177369206982092913..comments2024-03-28T10:44:30.518-06:00Comments on American Creation: Romney Is Mormons’ Path to the Christian MainstreamBrad Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17669677047039491864noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-60172339311877891122012-05-27T07:48:28.905-06:002012-05-27T07:48:28.905-06:00Feldman's understanding of tolerance is amusin...Feldman's understanding of tolerance is amusingly contemporary . . . he basically argues that mainline American Christianity will become tolerant of Mormons by coming to think that the differences are not serious. So, "tolerance," apparently, means substantial agreement.<br /><br />Then what's that word for living with people you continue to <i>disagree</i> with? I know it <i>used</i> to be tolerance. Is there a new word, since the old one was co-opted?Moryamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04812581722344925326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-25996802466867443502012-05-26T13:24:29.532-06:002012-05-26T13:24:29.532-06:00In historical terms, this change is business as us...<i>In historical terms, this change is business as usual. Catholics came to be seen as a legitimate Christian denomination only after years of oppression. Then came the acceptance of Jews. Mormons are the latest beneficiaries. Eventually, Muslims and Hindus will have their day as well. </i><br /><br />Here's the thing---first Noah Feldman is speaking of Roman Catholicism vis-a-vis America's Protestant character. Then he shifts to Jews. [Then predicting Muslims and Hindus will follow.]<br /><br />He's got his analogies all mixed, and it's an undifferentiated soup.<br /><br />That Mormonism will become as fully "normalized" as Judaism is an OK point, Mitt Romney as Joe Lieberman. The rest of the argument is imprecise to the point of being unhelpful.<br /><br />[Yes, there was a milestone for JFK as the first Catholic president, but there was that unique problem with Roman Catholicism that goes back to John Locke and Samuel Adams, that a Catholic owes his first allegiance to a "foreign prince," i.e., the pope. <br /><br />Roman Catholicism had been fully "normalized" in American society for decades---afterall, Al Smith was the Democratic Party nominee back in 1928.]Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-77527278098974581692012-05-26T02:39:00.198-06:002012-05-26T02:39:00.198-06:00I am my mother's daughter keeping Covenant wit...I am my mother's daughter keeping Covenant with generations of sisters who follow "Our Father" here on Mother Earth. Since Adam and Eve left The Garden we have learned to write of biology as a metaphor for life. Beginning with The Song of Ruth, we have also written of Psyche as a metaphor for The Great Spirit of eternal life. As a native American I have struggled with the flood of ideas that have been drowning my children and grandchildren in ideas that confuse and condem them to a life of "sin."<br /><br />I find this discussion, putting their struggle into the context of tolerance and history refreshing. Thank you! I pray that we, the people, will all begin to listen to the teachings of The Great Spirit that some of us call Christ.CYFFRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13392075850361888827noreply@blogger.com