Mormon academics love to criticize “capitalism.” Hugh Nibley famously denounced the entire economic system of the United States in favor of communalism. We’ve even published some academic criticisms of capitalism on these very pages. Now comes Richard Bushman in the summer 2009 issue of Square Two saying that capitalism is “insidious” and needs to be resisted.
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Sad comments from our evangelical brethren
I really prefer to offer up-beat commentary and news on M*, but I couldn’t let these comments go by without pointing them out. It truly saddens me to see so much hatred from our evangelical brethren for the Church and its members. Yes, I know that anonymous comments on a blog can be ugly and unrepresentative, but still, these comments are so over the top that I am hoping that we can help shine some light on these sentiments so that hopefully we can start changing perceptions about the Church.
The matter at hand is a story in “World” magazine, which is primarily aimed at conservative evangelicals. The post itself is straightforward — looking at the Pew report, it points out that Mormons are in many ways more politically conservative than evangelicals. But many of the comments were, to be quite honest, uncharitable at best and downright evil at worst.
The Mormon angles in the Bork battle
Before Sonia Sotomayor and before John Roberts there was Robert Bork. I was living out of the country in 1987, when Borked got “Borked” by the Dems and Arlen Specter, but I remember reading about the battle and occasionally seeing TV clips of Bork’s testimony.
But it was not until I picked up “Battle for Justice,” a well-written, very fair book by NY Times editor Ethan Bronner that I knew there were some Mormon angles to Bork’s life.
Who says we’re not Christian?
This web site says we are. In fact, they have named M* among the top 100 blogs for Christian moms. So next time somebody claimed Mormons are not Christians, you can just point them to this list.
But more seriously, this is a pretty interesting list of web sites. Take some time to read some of the blogs listed there if you haven’t before.
The president is correct: the Cambridge police did act stupidly
I am about to shock M* regulars by writing something I have not written in a long time: President Obama was correct about something. The Cambridge police did act stupidly in arresting Harvard Prof. Henry Louis Gates. You want proof: read the police report here.