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This proves that nobody pays any attention to the leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a bunch of irrelevant old white men, and demonstrates how absurd and unimportant Mormonism is.<\/p>\n
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Three and a half decades\u00a0ago, a friend was enrolled in a graduate class in medieval art history that focused on European cathedrals. \u00a0The teacher, who was originally from Germany, was a genuine communist but seemed a curious throwback to a much earlier era. \u00a0Perhaps to the 1920s or 193os. \u00a0Definitely Old Left, rather than New Left. \u00a0She had written some good books, and maybe had once been interesting. \u00a0But her lectures, my friend said, were excruciatingly monotonous. \u00a0Each stained glass window in every cathedral, whatever its content or history or sponsorship or theme, turned out to be a testament to class struggle, a specimen of the oppression of the proletariat by the petty bourgeois merchant class, and so on and so forth. \u00a0My friend remarked that, even before they looked at a window, he could easily have written her remarks because they always adopted exactly the same approach and came, inevitably, to precisely the same conclusion. \u00a0Nothing was allowed to contradict, or even to escape, the professor\u2019s rigid ideology. \u00a0The actual variety of life was reduced to monochromatic repetition.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 As everyone knows, Utah is a full-blown theocracy \u2014 essentially, it\u2019s Iran West \u2014 in which the state\u2019s alleged government does nothing without first gaining the approval of the leadership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. \u00a0 This proves how evil and oppressive Mormonism is. \u00a0 The Utah State Senate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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