On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:13:20 -0700 Left-Wing Wacko
<leftwingwacko at gmail.com> writes:
>
> And I think it a little unfair to pick on Mormonism as any more
> nutty
> than Catholicism. Simply because of age?
>
> The PBS special series on the Mormon church was quite interesting.
> Dispelled some of my overgeneralizing stereotypes. And yes, they
> have
> intellectuals. JWs though do not.
Yes, the Mormons do have their intellectuals, but the church has had a tendency to squelch them, when the top church leadership saw them as getting too uppity, as happened in the case of the historian Leonard J. Arrington, whom I had mentioned before. One problem for Mormon intellectuals is that the church leadership doesn't seem to see a great need for having intellectuals around in the first place.
Jim F.
>
> Sheldon
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