thread: 2007-01-04 : Self-identification vs. Membership
On 2007-01-06, Matt Kimball wrote:
Following Sydney's suggestion of looking at Mormonism as if it were new, I do admire the populist streak in Smith's early ideas. If you set the wayback machine to the early days of the church, the idea that any random Joe can become a god places value in the common man that I can appreciate. Further, the notion of forming a community with pooled property and finances seems downright hippie to me. (I mean that as a compliment!) Embracing alternative sexuality is an interesting experiment and ballsy, fourteen-year-old-brides and lies-about-polygamy notwithstanding.
Although, yes, Jules Verne indeed.
Hey Vincent, do you have any opinion of Reform Mormonism? (www.reformmormonism.org)
