[lbo-talk] Signs of the Times

James Heartfield Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk
Wed Sep 16 12:08:05 PDT 2009


Chris on the superiority of Catholicism to Mormonism


> There may be a Mormon equivalent to Thomas Aquinas or Duns Scotus
> out there, but if so I haven't heard of him.

To which, Doug replies 'They've been dead for 700 years! Today, we've got the cretinous Ratso. '

But you could add James Connolly, Muriel Spark, Chico Mendes, Graham Greene, who are more contemporaneous.

Still, I think Protestantism is a definite social advance on Catholicism, but Mormonism is definitely a slide back into worse mumbo-jumbo than Catholicism, what with the burning salamanders, re-discovered metal books and lost tribes of Israel and all.



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