Brandon Flowers

[poliphilo]

Brandon Flowers is a Mormon. Oh, right....

I've believed in some pretty silly things in the course of my life but there are some things- some organised bodies of belief- that are just too silly even for me. 

And Mormonism is one of them. Its prophet? Clearly a con-artist.  Its scriptures? Mark Twain called them "chloroform in print".

And isn't there something about never taking off your underwear? Or is that the Jehovah's Witnesses? I get those two mixed up.

You gotta read up around your beliefs. You gotta ask questions.

And if you're in your mid-twenties and you've seen a bit of the world beyond Utah and you still believe in the angel Moroni and the golden tablets and the green spectacles, it can only mean you're a bit of a fool. 

I don't mean unintelligent. I mean intellectually incurious.

Why should I want to engage with an artist who is intellectually incurious?

I feel the same way about all those Hollywood stars who are into Scientology. Travolta, Cruise: I avoid their films.

I quite liked Hot Fuss, but I think I'll be giving the latest album a miss.

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[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

I understand from a friend's research--his cousin was dating a Morman, and he got alarmed and went online to check out the Mormans--that women can't go to heaven unless they marry a Morman elder, and then they are mated for all eternity (God help them, so to speak, if they grow unutterably weary of each other!).

So when these boys in white shirts and black ties show up at my door, what hope, really, do they have for me--I'm not mated, and no Morman is going to provide me an Elder for Eternity in time, I think.

I'm doomed, and they don't care.

But probably they don't know, because they never checked to find out.

Once, being kind, I took one of their bibles, then tossed it into the linen closet near the Christmas candles and forgot about it--until the same two white-shirted men (I think--they all look the same) came back with another "elder" to close the deal.

I made them angry! I said, "Here's your bible back. I am not interested, I only took it to be nice, and I am an Episcopalian, so please don't ever come back."

"Why not?" asked one of them, looking belligerant.

"Sorry," I said, and shut the door in their faces.

They're salesmen for Moroni, and why they should care about doomed me I can't imagine.

They should concentrate on young girls who have a shot at a good Morman wedding in Salt Lake, because they could get into heaven.

Not me. Too late.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I was just looking at a website where ex-Mormons were posting about what an unreadable tome the Book of Mormon is.

Joseph Smith was a con-artist who- rather like E. Ron Hubbard in our own day and age- thought it might be rather fun (and profitable) to start a religion.

He set it up so he- and his cronies- could have lots and lots of women.

There's an element of dodginess in all religions. So far as I can see Mormonism is dodgy through and through.

And I hate the way they try to sell it on the doorstep- as if it were soap powder.