Comments on: Today’s Reading List - February 23, 2007 http://www.article6blog.com/2007/02/23/todays-reading-list-february-23-2007/ Religion in the 2008 Presidential Campaign: Commentary by an Evangelical Christian and a Mormon Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:14:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: myclob http://www.article6blog.com/2007/02/23/todays-reading-list-february-23-2007/#comment-535 myclob Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:07:17 +0000 http://www.article6blog.com/2007/02/23/todays-reading-list-february-23-2007/#comment-535 I have, what I think is a, new way of organizing debate. I believe it is built on the principals of successful dispute resolution. Namely bring both sides to the same table (or website), examine interest (or motivation) not positions. And keep things organized... I try to delve into this issue a little bit here: http://myclob.pbwiki.com/Polygamy Please help me understand each side, by contributing to this site. It is boring debating myself! Just <a href="http://myclob.pbwiki.com/e-mail" rel="nofollow">e-mail</a> me for the password... I have, what I think is a, new way of organizing debate. I believe it is built on the principals of successful dispute resolution. Namely bring both sides to the same table (or website), examine interest (or motivation) not positions. And keep things organized…

I try to delve into this issue a little bit here:

http://myclob.pbwiki.com/Polygamy

Please help me understand each side, by contributing to this site. It is boring debating myself!

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]]> By: CarlH http://www.article6blog.com/2007/02/23/todays-reading-list-february-23-2007/#comment-365 CarlH Fri, 23 Feb 2007 23:37:38 +0000 http://www.article6blog.com/2007/02/23/todays-reading-list-february-23-2007/#comment-365 Speaking of "Amazing Grace"--or more cynically "Wilberforce, the Movie"--<a href="http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110009704" rel="nofollow">Charlotte Allen writing in the WSJ</a> alleges the movie soft-pedals the British Parliamentarian's Christianity in favor of emphasizing social justice politics. Also, noting some of the religious attacks at the Romney campaign (curiously enough without naming the candidate), a Mormon historian, Davis Bitton, looks at a bit of 1919 history of <a href="http://www.ldsmag.com/historybits/070219mormons.html" rel="nofollow">"Beating Up on the Mormons"</a> and wonders to what extent history repeats itself. (This is from a webzine for LDS members, Meridian Magazine.) From my perspective, the article partakes somewhat of the persecution complex that seems to beset some of my fellow CJCLDS members, which isn't consistent with my own perceptions of Prof. Bitton (but I don't know him personally). Of course, there is the old saw about "it's not paranoia if they really are out to get you . . . " More fundamentally, Prof. Bitton seems unaware there already are a number of non-Mormon voices speaking up in defense of Mormons as good citizens (in spite of heterodox theology). Speaking of “Amazing Grace”–or more cynically “Wilberforce, the Movie”–Charlotte Allen writing in the WSJ alleges the movie soft-pedals the British Parliamentarian’s Christianity in favor of emphasizing social justice politics.

Also, noting some of the religious attacks at the Romney campaign (curiously enough without naming the candidate), a Mormon historian, Davis Bitton, looks at a bit of 1919 history of “Beating Up on the Mormons” and wonders to what extent history repeats itself. (This is from a webzine for LDS members, Meridian Magazine.) From my perspective, the article partakes somewhat of the persecution complex that seems to beset some of my fellow CJCLDS members, which isn’t consistent with my own perceptions of Prof. Bitton (but I don’t know him personally). Of course, there is the old saw about “it’s not paranoia if they really are out to get you . . . ” More fundamentally, Prof. Bitton seems unaware there already are a number of non-Mormon voices speaking up in defense of Mormons as good citizens (in spite of heterodox theology).

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