EAllusion wrote:That said, in the test you just gave someone you still have some social conservative issues defined as Chapel Mormon.
That's only because the Lord's mouthpieces came down definitively on the issue.
Social issues and political issues entwine.
We're not talking about social issues.
We're not talking about political issues.
We're only talking about religious issues.
Nghthawke in particular is strongly in favor of gay marriage.
But she knows she's out of harmony with the Brethren.
This is the antithesis of the LDS Church's view and one of the defining features of its modern social conservatism. According to Gad's definition, this support might be problematic for calling her an Internet Mormon. But you still don't seem to be aware that you and Gad really aren't on the same page here.
It's only "Internet Mormon" to the extent that she says that support of gay marriage is the "true" Mormonism, that opposition to gay marriage was only his opinion, and that no Mormon familiar with the issues was ever anything but in FAVOR of gay marriage.
Sure, some do. In fact, I frequently see LDS much more so than more liberal religions expressing a narrow, conservative orthodoxy as the true Mormonism with no real Mormon believing anything different. It strikes me as naïve, but whatevs.
So you and I agree.
It's not clear that people who harbor beliefs you describe as "Internet Mormon" actually hold this view though, and if they do, it's only going to be in a proportion of their views. Hundred bucks says DCP acknowledges that hemispheric readings of the Book of Mormon were/are believed by some Mormons. Nothing in your attempts to measure it even comes close to getting at it.
??? I not only "get at it," I clearly and unambiguously explain it right there in
the essay!This, again, represents another shift in official criteria of what defines the distinction.
There is no shift. There is simply correcting misinterpretations.
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"
--Louis Midgley