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“Utard,” the Homeland of “Mormondumb,” as Hell on Earth.

“Utard,” the Homeland of “Mormondumb,” as Hell on Earth.

Last updated on: March 7, 2019 at 12:16 am by Dan Peterson

“Utard,” the Homeland of “Mormondumb,” as Hell on Earth. 2019-03-07T00:16:53-07:00 Dan Peterson

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A view at Dead Horse Point State Park, Utah. It’s a dismally ugly state, too, and utterly without interesting landscapes. (Wikimedia Commons public domain image)

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Some critics of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints affect the belief that what they call “Utard,” the home territory of what they call “Mormondumb,” is something of a Hell on Earth. Maybe it is, of course — for one thing, after all, I have adopted Utah as my home state and I live here — but the data to support their depiction of Utah is, to say the best of it, rather sparse. And the contrary data is rather abundant. Here’s an example of the latter, from the website of the Today Show:

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