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<\/a>Here\u2019s something new from the ever-dying Interpreter Foundation: \u00a0\u201cNow Available on all of our Social Media Channels: \u201cInterpreting Interpreter<\/em>\u201d Videos with Kyler Rasmussen\u201d: \u00a0Watch the first video now on YouTube at https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_a5wkAIP2xU<\/a><\/p>\n You might have noticed that Latter-day Saints have lately come in for a great deal of attention in \u201cHollywood.\u201d \u00a0Little if any of it has been exactly helpful, let alone flattering. \u00a0In the context of that attention, which has been almost comical \u2014 note that I said almost<\/em> \u2014 in its unrelenting onslaught, I found this article interesting. \u00a0It\u2019s from Kelsey Dallas<\/a>, a non-Latter-day Saint religion-beat journalist who publishes with the Deseret News<\/em>: \u00a0\u201cPerspective: How should Hollywood handle religion? \u00a0When done well, faith-related shows and movies help people ask better questions about religion, rather than making them feel like they\u2019ve got religion all figured out\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n And, speaking of movies, Six Days in August<\/em><\/a> continues in a few theaters. \u00a0If you\u2019re in the vicinity of of one of those theaters and you haven\u2019t yet seen the film \u2014 or you want to see it again on a big screen, or you have friends or family or neighbors or ward members who should see it \u2014 you may well be running out of opportunities. \u00a0Tonight, instead of listening to commentators who actually know little or nothing more than you do, and instead of waiting around interminably for news of the latest presidential ballot totals from Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, or for survey results drawn from interviews with unemployed left-handed Armenian women in the far southeastern corner of Arizona\u2019s Yavapai County, maybe you ought to go out and catch a showing of Six Days in August<\/em>, instead. \u00a0It may be several days before the final voting figures are in and, besides, we all know that the Libertarian Party is just going to steal the election again this year, anyhow.<\/p>\n If you do<\/em> go to see Six Days in August<\/em>, I ask you once again to stick around for the credits that follow the end of the film. \u00a0I want you to hear the moving rendition of John Taylor\u2019s \u201cO Give Me Back My Prophet Dear\u201d that runs behind those credits. \u00a0It was specially recorded for the movie in an arrangement by Rob Gardner<\/a>, and it features Casey Elliott<\/a>, of Gentri<\/a>.<\/p>\n There is a crackpot claim out there that Joseph and Hyrum Smith were murdered by John Taylor and Willard Richards on orders from Brigham Young. \u00a0I thought it important to include John Taylor\u2019s testimony, in musical form, at the end of Six Days in August<\/em>. \u00a0Don\u2019t miss it.<\/p>\n You may perhaps have missed this 56-minute video. \u00a0If so, here\u2019s an opportunity to miss it yet again: \u201cBYU Professor Daniel Peterson and Qur\u2019an translator Safi Kaskas compare the shared commonality of shared faiths with the teachings of ancient Islam and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints<\/a>. We learn how Jesus and Mary are found in the Qur\u2019an and that the name of God is universal.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n It\u2019s been a while since I\u2019ve shared \u2014 I\u2019ve been otherwise occupied, and have quite often been in areas with no internet access, not to mention with a computer that unaccountably failed and then miraculously recovered a few days later \u2014 but here are some appalling recent specimens from the Christopher Hitchens Memorial \u201cHow Religion Poisons Everything\u201d File<\/em>\u2122:<\/p>\n Someday, such evils of religion will be a thing of the past. \u00a0Until that (metaphorically) blessed day, though, we can only imagine<\/em> the better world that will inevitably emerge when theists and theism are no more than dimly remembered horrors from humankind\u2019s distant, primitive origins. \u00a0\u201cMan will never be free,\u201d the great French writer, philosopher, and art critic Denis Diderot (1713-1784) famously remarked, \u201cuntil the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.\u201d \u00a0With the rise of atheistic communist regimes and their mass murders of religious believers and reactionary political figures and thinkers in the twentieth century, Diderot\u2019s glorious vision seemed to be on the verge of literal realization. \u00a0But, alas, Pol Pot\u2019s Cambodia and Mao\u2019s China and Castro\u2019s Cuba and Enver Hoxha\u2019s Albania and Stalin\u2019s Russia and Ho Chi Minh\u2019s Vietnam proved to be merely a false dawn, just as the French Revolution\u2019s \u201cReign of Terror\u201d had proven to be earlier.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Here\u2019s something new from the ever-dying Interpreter Foundation: \u00a0\u201cNow Available on all of our Social Media Channels: \u201cInterpreting Interpreter\u201d Videos with Kyler Rasmussen\u201d: \u00a0Watch the first video now on YouTube at https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_a5wkAIP2xU You might have noticed that Latter-day Saints have lately come in for a great deal of attention in \u201cHollywood.\u201d \u00a0Little if any […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":25832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[38149,873,21199,788,2160,38146],"class_list":["post-107662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-conclave","tag-film","tag-heretic","tag-mormon","tag-movie","tag-safi-kaskas"],"yoast_head":"\n<\/a><\/a>
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