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August 24, 2006

Fictitious Times

by AltHippo @ 9:55 am. Filed under Religion, propaganda

Last night I was thinking about political language and the tendency to treat fact as fiction, and fiction as fact. It’s very odd once you think about it. Michael Crichton writes a purely fictitious book about global warming, and it’s taken as evidence that scientists are exaggerating the problem. Michael Moore creates a documentary accurately showing the politics behind Iraq, and he’s denounced as a mad man. Peter Beinart calls for Democrats to denounce him (”And it requires a sustained battle to wrest the Democratic Party from the heirs of Henry Wallace. In the party today, two such heirs loom largest: Michael Moore and MoveOn.”).

Then, I turned on the tv, and saw the South Park episode on the Mormons. Some of the beliefs that Parker and Stone accuse the Mormons of having sounded pretty far out there. So, I was surprised to find that at least the Mormon beliefs about the origins of Native Americans appears to be consistent with the South Park episode:

According to the Book of Mormon, ancient Israelites traveled to America, and these were the so-called Native Americans who greeted Columbus, the Spanish Conquistadors, and the Pilgrims.

The Book of Mormon teaches that Christ came to America and visited them, just like he visited the Middle East. A recent Associated Press article about Southerton and his findings elaborates:

Christ visited them, yet their unrighteousness left them cursed with dark skin. The Book of Mormon says Lamanites will one day be restored to greatness through the fullness of the gospel. (The original 1830 version of the Book of Mormon said they would become “white and delightsome;” in 1981, the passage was changed to “pure and delightsome.”)

I’m willing to go out on a limb here and say that anyone who would believe that, will probably believe any fiction you can invent.

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