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Comment on Golden Tablets, Butch Cassidy, Mormon Women’s Sex Lives: Mormonism in/by the Academy by Mommie Dearest

Mommie Dearest — Tue, 29 May 2012 20:28:39 +0000

I read the entire article in the link, mostly because it was well-written, but also because I could see that he was doing me and my fellows a great service. I mentally categorize him in the spirit of Doniphan, and the small errors he made in describing us are easily forgivable, and already forgotten. Except that Simpsons/South Park one.

The comments have been entertaining, as usual. Thank you all for being brief today!

Comment on Golden Tablets, Butch Cassidy, Mormon Women’s Sex Lives: Mormonism in/by the Academy by gst

gst — Tue, 29 May 2012 19:54:05 +0000

The “more orgasms” claim is entirely plausible, mostly due to the extra time that Mormon women spend leaning against their clothes drying machines.

Comment on Review: John Dominic Crossan, “The Power of Parable: How Fiction By Jesus Became Fiction About Jesus” by Carey

Carey — Tue, 29 May 2012 19:46:06 +0000

Perhaps if the Gospels added the intertitle “Based on a True Story” everyone would immediately get the idea.

Comment on Golden Tablets, Butch Cassidy, Mormon Women’s Sex Lives: Mormonism in/by the Academy by themormonbrit

themormonbrit — Tue, 29 May 2012 19:43:47 +0000

Not sure if this constitutes ‘thread-jacking’, but I never really understood why the church is so against using the cross as a symbol. Is it an opposition to state-sponsored execution? That really doesn’t make much sense, given that capital punishment has such a firm stronghold in Mormonism. I’m just interested to hear your thoughts, everyone.

Comment on Golden Tablets, Butch Cassidy, Mormon Women’s Sex Lives: Mormonism in/by the Academy by EOR

EOR — Tue, 29 May 2012 19:34:17 +0000

Ardis (31) you cannot because you have no bearing on my life. I don’t know what all the “return the favor” business is about, but if you’ve suffered some imagined slight at my hand you feel free to scratch that itch.

Comment on Golden Tablets, Butch Cassidy, Mormon Women’s Sex Lives: Mormonism in/by the Academy by Jacob

Jacob — Tue, 29 May 2012 19:31:14 +0000

Yes, I don’t see any of this as “harmful.” I was simply amused by some of the particulars–Mormons explaining the ubiquitous absence of the cross as opposition to state-sanctioned execution? (I wish). Harmon Killebrew a Mormon? (I didn’t even know who he was). Mormon women experience more orgasms than other women? (Citation please). Etc. I hardly excoriated Terry in this post. I see it as a curious phenomenon that even defenders of Mormons (may they ever increase) though not necessarily Mormonism (why would a non-Mormon defend Mormonism per se?) portray so many of the details of Mormon life in ways that are foreign to me. But then, perhaps Mormonism really has become less parochial than has usually been the case in its history, meaning that its meanings and interpretations and lived experiences have really proliferated. I doubt that Terry is making any of this up. He’s probably heard all of it from Mormons themselves, likely Mormons he personally knows. This is compounded by the fact that we’re always in between and in the middle of deciding what we all believe, an on-going and probably never-ending process as a people.

Comment on Golden Tablets, Butch Cassidy, Mormon Women’s Sex Lives: Mormonism in/by the Academy by BHodges

BHodges — Tue, 29 May 2012 19:26:43 +0000

PS- Bother Lee, go check out my book review from earlier today here at BCC and stay classy! Or hey, check out Jacob’s 5-part meditation on suffering, twins, God, and atonement from last week. Or Kristine’s reflections last week on an incapacitated man who soiled her shoes and grabbed her hair, and also somehow taught her about charity. Stay classy.

Comment on Golden Tablets, Butch Cassidy, Mormon Women’s Sex Lives: Mormonism in/by the Academy by Peter LLC

Peter LLC — Tue, 29 May 2012 19:23:58 +0000

Stay classy, BCC.

We’re just waiting for someone to show us the way, Brother Lee.

Comment on Taking an Analogy Too Far: New Testament Stories edition by Duffy

Duffy — Tue, 29 May 2012 19:23:29 +0000

Yep, even several years after first watching this…it’s still epic.

Comment on Taking an Analogy Too Far: New Testament Stories edition by Ron

Ron — Tue, 29 May 2012 19:16:00 +0000

I’d like to nominate Tatiana #9 for BCOTW.