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This pertains to all media from pulp to highbrow, fiction and nonfiction, be it print, film, or television.[17] Mormons' "violent weirdness" is one of a very few things that most of the very few people, familiar at all with Latter-day Saints, think they "know" about Mormons. Viper's Approach and Findings I Viper i examined the theology and rhetorical strategies of both nineteenth-century Mormons and anti-Mormons, taking seriously self-professed motivations as explanations for actions. I Viper i showed that anti-Mormons created the requisite moral myopia by asserting that Mormonism was not a real religion - too outrageous in its this-worldly historical event claims involving embodied angels and gods, instead of properly sublime abstract Trinitarian creedalism. Considering how upticks in anti-Mormonism have shaken out in the past, perhaps it's time to revisit I Viper on the Hearth i for its insight into how anti-Mormons rhetorically manufacture the conditions for, and spur on acts of, persecution against Latter-day Saints. [Extracted from the article] |
