angsty wrote:Do you really think Mormon women could possibly be that shallow and immature? I certainly don't-- and I say that as a feminist who thinks the church has failed its women monumentally, and influenced them in largely-negative ways. I don't have a low opinion of Mormon women, I just think the church's ideas on gender have wronged them greatly.
I don't think Mormon women will be any more likely to aspire to Ann Romney's lifestyle and status than women in the public at large.
Regardless of the NWO reference I think this may say a lot about the way modern women and men think.
Fiannan wrote:Okay, just have to say right off that I am voting for Mitt Romney. However, I just got to thinking about the Romney's at the convention and how some are calling them "America's dream couple."
Yes, the Romney's are good looking, rich, have a great family life in which the wife stays at home or volunteers in the community/church, they are rich, charismatic, he has served in various high LDS Church allings and also, they are rich.
Okay, not to fan any class warfare fires but there seems to be a VERY strong portion of the LDS collective unconsciousness that believes that the more worthy you are the more God will reward you with wealth. Sadly, the other side to that is that if you struggle to make it then you are not making use of your potential. You are as the unwise servant in the Parable of the Talents the guy who ´hides his talent and in the end is cast out and what he had is given to the guy with the most.
Now add to this that whatever we say there is still an attitude that a woman with children should be at home and not work outside the family. See? Ann Romney gets to stay at home. She has a worthy husband who allows her to acheive her highest potential. Well, that is what I suspect may be going on in many LDS women's minds who do have to work in order to make sure the family isn't on the streets.
So am I off here or will the glorified image of the perfect LDS family actually add stress to couples in the Church who are barely making it today?
The "prosperity gospel" also exists among Evangelicals. (just as a side note)
To your point, I am sure this is where Romney's remarks on the culture of Palestine came from, while he was in Israel.
"And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." Matt 19:24
Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction -Pope Benedict XVI
Fiannan wrote: Regardless of the NWO reference I think this may say a lot about the way modern women and men think.
We live in a superficial and shallow society.
Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction -Pope Benedict XVI
Fiannan wrote:Regardless of the NWO reference I think this may say a lot about the way modern women and men think.
I don't actually know any post-adolescent people who could be described via that image. I suppose I have a more positive view of human nature- or maybe I just hang with the cool kids.
Albion wrote:The Romneys are "charismatic"? Who knew?
Charisma is in the eye of the beholder? I find them to be continuously full of awkward.
Indeed. The Redwood trees of Yosemite call Mitt "wooden".
Whatever appears to be against the Book of Mormon is going to be overturned at some time in the future. So we can be pretty open minded.-charity 3/7/07
MASH quotes I peeked in the back [of the Bible] Frank, the Devil did it. I avoid church religiously. This isn't one of my sermons, I expect you to listen.
Bond James Bond wrote:But but but but...socialism. Kenyan anti-colonialist. Scare quotes. Dinesh D'Souza. 2016: Obama's Evil America.
Nothing terrifies some white folks like a black man in the White House.
Spoken like the one true Reverend of Cassius U.
Whatever appears to be against the Book of Mormon is going to be overturned at some time in the future. So we can be pretty open minded.-charity 3/7/07
MASH quotes I peeked in the back [of the Bible] Frank, the Devil did it. I avoid church religiously. This isn't one of my sermons, I expect you to listen.
Fiannan wrote:Okay, just have to say right off that I am voting for Mitt Romney.
Why? (A vote against Obama is a legitimate answer.)
Whatever appears to be against the Book of Mormon is going to be overturned at some time in the future. So we can be pretty open minded.-charity 3/7/07
MASH quotes I peeked in the back [of the Bible] Frank, the Devil did it. I avoid church religiously. This isn't one of my sermons, I expect you to listen.
