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2016-07-22T11:24:40-05:00

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America Is Great

Last updated on: July 22, 2016 at 11:24 am By David Mason

I woke up this morning to find armies of people decrying the apocalypse which he-whose-name-will-not-be-spoken set alight last night. Normally, I would be content to let others more versed in the art undertake the rhetorical war against political wrongheadedness, rather than add redundancy to the obvious. But we are past the point of political wrongheadedness. We have passed the point at which good people—people of integrity, honesty, love, and probity—must recognize the moral obligation to oppose this fascist bigot.* The... Read more

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2016-07-14T11:42:38-05:00

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Real Religion Doesn’t Know

Last updated on: July 14, 2016 at 11:42 am By David Mason

Editors’ Note: This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on Faith and Reason. Read other perspectives here. The problem with making religion a rational phenomenon is that we then presume that religion means knowing stuff. Put your daggers down, a sec’, and hear me out. I am not at all suggesting that religion depends on our ignorance. A neo-orthodox element of my own religious tradition would have us accept that having stuff in our heads is an impediment... Read more

2016-06-26T15:41:26-05:00

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The Lose-Your-Self Jesus

Last updated on: June 26, 2016 at 3:41 pm By David Mason

A medieval reading of Mark 8 justified self-inflicted suffering. Conventional readings of the chapter these days conclude that Jesus advocated unselfish-ness, as especially evident in unrequited acts of service. I don’t have anything against service. I think Jesus did like it. But I don’t see why we shouldn’t consider an additional layer of meaning in Mark 8 and its synoptic counterparts that currency of thought, these days, makes unavoidable, anyway. Whosoever will save his life shall lose it, says Jesus,... Read more

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2016-07-08T07:49:01-05:00

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Amurrica’s Anti-Christian Prosperity Gospel

Last updated on: July 8, 2016 at 7:49 am By David Mason

Amurrica is the land of opportunity, we say. And we measure the realization of that opportunity in cash. We have developed a prosperity-gospel patriotism that sanctifies wealth, amassed by whatever means, and that impels the accusation that if you have not succeeded in Amurrica, it’s only because you haven’t tried hard enough. Freedom, we insist, axiomatically, means that a person who fails must not have wanted to succeed very much. Gumption, grit, and olde-fashioned exertion will lead, we believe, inevitably,... Read more

2016-05-20T13:07:53-05:00

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Religion’s Placebo Effect(s)

Last updated on: May 20, 2016 at 1:07 pm By David Mason

If you have Irritable Bowel Syndrome—and reading blogposts can give it to you if you don’t—you’re in luck. The best treatment might be provided in little packets manufactured by C&H. A few years ago, a team of real-life scientists produced an important study that showed that placebos work. This was not, itself, news. We came to understand long ago that a sugar pill, when pretending to be medication, can have positive material consequences on individuals’ health. We even understand, now,... Read more

2017-11-07T15:57:57-05:00

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Don’t Stay in the Boat: the Sea of Mormon Stories

Last updated on: November 7, 2017 at 3:57 pm By David Mason

Jeffrey Holland is angry, nay, furious, at people who leave the LDS church.** It’s hard to ignore in the audio how bitter Holland sounds. It’s also impossible to ignore how deeply pained he is. The anger Holland bellows at the guilty over the course of his impassioned, forty-five-minute sermon to a small crowd in Arizona a couple weeks ago feels rough and crumbling with deep, jagged hurt. Holland howls the howl of the marginalized and displaced, the cry of the person who cannot... Read more

2016-04-26T10:38:06-05:00

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“Letter to a CES Director” and Highlander Syndrome

Last updated on: April 26, 2016 at 10:38 am By David Mason

I haven’t read the entire text of Jeremy Runnells’ Letter to a CES Director. I mean, it’s so long. It’s not that I never read things that are long. But the CES Letter is so gratuitously longer than necessary that I haven’t read every word, and, unapologetically, I’m sure I never will. Even so, I commend Bro. Runnells for marking out his territory. Last week, after months of fits and starts, Runnells’ LDS stake finally got its isht together enough... Read more

2016-04-18T08:31:30-05:00

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The Conference Enigma: a little play

Last updated on: April 18, 2016 at 8:31 am By David Mason

The Conference Enigma A Little Play (A dark, silent sitting room. Carpet. Wood shelves. Books. Cozy, but almost entirely in shadow. Door opens. DALLIN steps in. He is bald, eighty-ish, a bit gnome-like. Wearing a dark suit that’s just a tiny bit too big. He sets a briefcase on the floor, sighs, and snaps on a table lamp. In the new light, DALLIN gasps, and jumps. In a corner, only just illuminated, sits DIETER in an overstuffed chair. He is tall-ish.... Read more

2016-03-23T12:10:58-05:00

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Mormon, the Musical

Last updated on: March 23, 2016 at 12:10 pm By David Mason

Welcome to another episode of “The Most Religious Thing”. We learned in our last episode that “Popcorn Popping” is the most genuinely religious song in the LDS-Mormon repertoire. Today, we’ll discover that The Book of Mormon is not only the most genuinely religious Broadway musical ever, but, perhaps, the most correct of any musical on earth. This is old news. But I saw the show, again, last week. For those not in the know, Trey Parker’s, Matt Stone’s, and Robert... Read more

2016-03-01T16:24:45-05:00

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Time to Say ‘Mormonist’

Last updated on: March 1, 2016 at 4:24 pm By David Mason

For good or for bad, the term Islamist is now part of the English lexicon, perhaps permanently. Those with friendly and those with hostile intent employ this term to distinguish between friendly and hostile Muslims. Friendly Muslims align themselves with Islam. Hostile Muslims, on the other hand, are Islamists. Thanks to the way in which Western media has employed the term for a decade, the distinct characteristic of the Islamist seems to be that he or she wants Islam (or... Read more

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