Why I Love Mormonism--Simon Critchley NYT

OS is up to his ears in projects--lots of good things happening, but not much time to write this week.

However, he did run across this essay, and sends it in the direction of his hordes of loyal readers.

Critchley is an English academic resident upon our shores, and he provides a kind and gentle account of his views on the subject of the Mormon religion.

Mormonism is heretical, no doubt about that. At the same time, its errors tend to push its adherents in the direction of striving for virtue and productivity. Think the Mormon Tabernacle Choir as one public face of that approach.

By contrast, the heresy of Liberation Theology, in which the Beloved Leader was steeped, encourages resentment and class warfare. It's Marxism with a Christian patina, very popular amongst all those seminarians of the 1960's who 'heard the call to the ministry' and maintained their military draft exemptions while in seminary--in looong doctoral programs. Rev. Wright's famous (or infamous) pronouncements from his Chicago pulpit are not untypical of the theology he and his espouse.

So, this year, we have Heretic A vs. Heretic B at the top of the ballot.

Oh joy.

Yew payz yer munney, yew takes yer choice.