Comments on: Political Tuesday: LDS Political Thought: Preview (1948-49)

By: Grant

Grant — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 19:27:57 +0000

I agree with the Other Clark’s final line that we won’t be hearing any official church lessons like this today. And the reason for that is probably the list of books mentioned in his second paragraph. “We have learned by sad experience.”

By: The Other Clark

The Other Clark — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 17:41:32 +0000

I’m really looking forward to this series.

The reference books are interesting (and not just because half the books are complied by series author G. Homer Durham).

Had this series been written 20 years later, it would have included a far different (and more conservative) list of books, I suspect.
Clark’s “Stand Fast by the Constitution”
Benson’s “An Enemy Hath Done This”
and several other mentioned in General Conference (None Dare Call it Consiracy, The Naked Communist)

Had it been written fifty years later, it wouldn’t have been written at all.

By: Grant

Grant — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 14:20:29 +0000

Thanks for the kind words and link! I am looking forward to this series. And I’ll try to keep my passionate moderation going. You never know, though. I could reach my breaking point and burst out in intemperate diatribes any time now.

By: Bruce Crow

Bruce Crow — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 14:17:54 +0000

I majored in Political Science and use to love talking about it. But as I have aged I have found most political discussions useless posturing. Now I find the most pleasure in listening to a well thought out thesis on a particular stance instead of a debate between two people who don’t understand the nuances implied by their positions. I’m looking forward to this series.

By: Vader

Vader — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 13:32:38 +0000

One man’s extremism is another man’s trenchant political commentary.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 13:05:50 +0000

I don't really dislike politics as a study -- it's the ugliness and extremism of partisan political debate that makes me run for the hills. One politically-themed blog I do enjoy (he also branches into family history and religion) is Keepa'ninny Grant's Passionately Moderate Mormon (permanent link in the sidebar). If all political discourse were as rational and rancor-less, I might survive the coming season with my nerves intact.