Brandon Flowers
Oct. 20th, 2006 11:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloBrandon 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.
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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Date: 2006-10-21 11:01 am (UTC)I used to tell my kids stories about how the fields near our house- which are full of concrete gas vents- was a vampire graveyard. The two older ones were in on the joke, but the youngest one believed me.
Baaad Dad.
The thing about parenthood is we don't get any practice at it. I wince now at some of things I did or failed to do.