Green Oasis

While looking up versions of Personal Jesus on YouTube (inspired by a post at Mind on Fire), I came across this gem.

Don’t get me wrong; I think Obama is the best candidate. I just don’t like how some have made him into a savior figure. I hope he is truly the beginning of a new politics. He can’t save us from ourselves.

Dale McGowan has done a couple of posts about confirmation bias in reactions to the controversial nomination of Sarah Palin to be the Republican candidate for vice president. His latest post highlighted a Daily Show segment. This is a perfect example of confirmation bias.

This JibJab video about the 2008 campaign for the U.S. president just about sums up my feelings. Call me cynical.

Mormonism has a long history of slandering its opponents. Witness the straw man Korihor, or those who allegedly stole the translation of the Book of Lehi. It is so easy to blame any opposition to the Mormon church on Satan’s machinations. It keeps the faithful in line.

So I shouldn’t be surprised when good Brother Lawrence asserts that the arguments for recognizing same-sex marriage are the same arguments used by Satan in the war in heaven. Aside from being hyperbolic, his comparison is inapt.

As the story goes (as Brother Lawrence notes himself) Satan’s plan was to destroy humanity’s agency, its free will, so that everyone could get to heaven. It is presumed that he would do this by making everyone obey God’s commandments so that no one could sin. If no one sinned, then everyone went to heaven.

Lo and behold! We have Mormons championing an effort to make sure that no one can sin with the blessing of the state. They want to make it as difficult as possible for homosexual people to sin. They want to facilitate, urge, cajole, even force people to marry only heterosexually. Is this not a perfect analog to Satan’s plan according to the Mormon myth?

We do not believe it just to mingle religious influence with civil government, whereby one religious society is fostered and another proscribed in its spiritual privileges, and the individual rights of its members, as citizens, denied. (D&C 134:9)

This LDS Satanic effort has irony written all over it… in big capital letters.

A librarian was barred from a speech by Senator McCain because she carried a sign that said “McCain = Bush”. I don’t know why Republicans would be offended by that.

(via Mrs. Sturgeon Has Her Say)