Orson Scott Card: Big Love? Big Deal

National Review Online ^ | March 13, 2009 | Orson Scott Card

[svcw]

Can some one explain to me what is meant by New Puritan Americans of the left?
The term was posted by restornu. Anyone anyone at all.......

[Elsie]

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Why?

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[Tennessee Nana]

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[greyfoxx39]

Can some one explain to me what is meant by New Puritan Americans of the left?

The use of the term directed at me was another insult as usual. Be prepared to have that same vile term used against anyone rebutting mormon claims to be the "only true church".

Orson Scott Card had this article on the subject yesterday.

Are new 'Puritans' gaining?

Here is an excerpt:

A fanatical religion -- one that does not proselytize so much as insist that it is already the established church, to which all others must bow and make way.

It is a religion at war with all others, confident of victory, contemptuous of any church that does not fight them, savage against any that shows a sign of resistance.

Its adherents feel themselves to have risen so far above all other faiths that they claim they are not a religion at all -- they are post-religious. Therefore the rules that govern the behavior of other religions in a multifaith society do not apply to them.

They refuse to admit that they even exist. Instead, they claim to believe in "science," though they have no idea what the methodology of good science is, and reject the findings of science when they contradict treasured dogmas.

Having no authoritative group to define their ideology, they embrace opposite and contradictory dogmas and simultaneously believe in all. Their doctrines spread like dandelion seeds on the wind, taking root wherever there is empty ground.

Has there ever been such a religious movement as this before?

A very good example is Puritanism in the 16th and 17th centuries

Another interesting statement from Card's article is this: "With all our missionary work, we Latter-day Saints merely managed to keep pace with population growth in America, remaining at a steady 1.4 percent of the population. In fact, Mormons were the only group to show no change at all, relative to the America as a whole. We're swimming as fast as we can -- just to stay in place."

[Colofornian]

Can some one explain to me what is meant by New Puritan Americans of the left? The term was posted by restornu. Anyone anyone at all.......

Yes, those who check off on surveys as atheists or don't know religious affiliation: "...the New Puritans embrace a hodgepodge of dogmas drawn from feminism, environmentalism, gay activism and militant atheism.

See http://www.mormontimes.com/mormon_voices/orson_scott_card/?id=6793

[svcw]

Oh, that makes more sense. I thought it was a back handed insult implying that I was a sexually repressed legalistic Bible thumper.
I'm Sicilian can't be sexually repressed and don't subscribe to legalism in any form.

[svcw]

The definition alone is hysterically funny. (and tragically sad that ldsers believe anyone who disagrees with them must be from the left.)