: do not give in to evil but proceed ever more boldly against it :

Letter to the Editor

This is a letter to the Editor of “First Things” that I wrote in response to this article,(scroll down to 2nd article) which addressed whether or not Americans were prepared to elect a Mormon for president, given Mormon’s “bizarre” beliefs, born of a native naivete or indifference.

I have a comment about Richard John Neuhaus’s December 29, 2006 article.

He said, about Mormonism, that it is:

“A religion whose tenets strike most Americans as bizarre … That one was born a Mormon is not evidence of a character flaw. That one remains a Mormon may be evidence of theological naiveté or indifference. But we are not electing the nation’s theologian.”

How arrogant can one man be.

If Mr. Neuhaus’s thinks that belief in Mormonism’s founding events constitutes indifference or naiveté, or that those founding events are bizarre, I’d invite him to just take a quick look at Christianity’s foundings (or Judaisms for that matter), i.e., a resurrection, the miracles, etc. If God’s son can die and be raised from the dead, if Moses can divide a sea and have a people pass through on dry ground, if Noah can stuff the earth’s animal species in a big boat . . .

Then surely God could send an angel to a man, and that Angel could show him where a hidden book lies, and that man could translate it by the power of God.

Mr. Neuhaus’s own beliefs are as (or more) outlandish than those he takes issue with in Mormonism. It’s too bad that Mr. Neuhaus has swam so long in his own fishbowl that he can’t see the detritus floating in his own water.

It takes a particularly blind hubris to cast stones from such a glass house.

Best regards,
Drex Davis

December 29, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized 

comments