Comments on: Ignoring is Bliss http://www.rogerhansen.org/2008/10/ignoring-is-bliss/ Sat, 31 Jul 2010 04:49:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Roger Hansen http://www.rogerhansen.org/2008/10/ignoring-is-bliss/#comment-8293 Roger Hansen Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:36:11 +0000 http://www.rogerhansen.org/?p=156#comment-8293 According to Ed Firmage Jr. writing in the SLTrib (5 Feb 2010): "What Grandfather (Hugh B. Brown) helped me understand, and what Christianity, Inc. has forgotten, is that the struggle is all. "To be a good Christian," as Harold Bloom rephrases Kierkegaard, "is to be in opposition to the established order." By extension, I reason, to be a good Mormon is to be in opposition to Mormonism. "Away with stereotyped Mormons," said Brigh Young. So, I try to be the best untypical Mormon I can, to honor my great-grandfather Hugh and my great-great-great-grandfather Brigham." According to Ed Firmage Jr. writing in the SLTrib (5 Feb 2010):

“What Grandfather (Hugh B. Brown) helped me understand, and what Christianity, Inc. has forgotten, is that the struggle is all.

“To be a good Christian,” as Harold Bloom rephrases Kierkegaard, “is to be in opposition to the established order.”

By extension, I reason, to be a good Mormon is to be in opposition to Mormonism. “Away with stereotyped Mormons,” said Brigh Young. So, I try to be the best untypical Mormon I can, to honor my great-grandfather Hugh and my great-great-great-grandfather Brigham.”

]]> By: Roger Hansen http://www.rogerhansen.org/2008/10/ignoring-is-bliss/#comment-3233 Roger Hansen Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:56:24 +0000 http://www.rogerhansen.org/?p=156#comment-3233 In a SL Trib column on July 11, 2009, Robert Kirby writes: "I'm okay with paying tithing. In fact, I think a major part of a provident life is sharing what you have with those less fortunate. Some pay it to a church in the form of a tithe, but it's also charitable contributions of any kind." In a SL Trib column on July 11, 2009, Robert Kirby writes:

“I’m okay with paying tithing. In fact, I think a major part of a provident life is sharing what you have with those less fortunate. Some pay it to a church in the form of a tithe, but it’s also charitable contributions of any kind.”

]]> By: Roger Hansen http://www.rogerhansen.org/2008/10/ignoring-is-bliss/#comment-176 Roger Hansen Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:04:26 +0000 http://www.rogerhansen.org/?p=156#comment-176 L. Jackson Newell relates the following Q&A in an autobiographical piece in Dialogue (Winter 2006, p. 176). It was part of an interview for a position in the Bishopric: Q: Are you a regular tithe-payer? A: Yes, we tithe but the money does not all go to the Church. L. Jackson Newell relates the following Q&A in an autobiographical piece in Dialogue (Winter 2006, p. 176). It was part of an interview for a position in the Bishopric:

Q: Are you a regular tithe-payer?
A: Yes, we tithe but the money does not all go to the Church.

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