{"id":42513,"date":"2017-06-01T12:59:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T18:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=42513"},"modified":"2017-06-02T15:14:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T21:14:52","slug":"apparently-not-pacifists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/06\/apparently-not-pacifists.html","title":{"rendered":"We’re Apparently Not Pacifists After All!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"California's<\/a>
Bryce Harper and his wife, Kayla Varner, were married in the San Diego California Temple.
(Image from LDS Media Library)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

One of my favorite bad movies, years ago, was the classic 1970 spaghetti Western They Call Me Trinity<\/em>, which features\u00a0a hopelessly\u00a0inept group of Mormon pacifists (including two beautiful girls who furnish the movie\u2019s love interests) as\u00a0a central (and comic) element in\u00a0the plot.<\/p>\n

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But, it seems, the film\u2019s depiction of Mormons<\/a> wasn\u2019t absolutely one-hundred percent accurate.<\/p>\n

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Illustration:<\/p>\n

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You may be aware of a brawl that erupted during a game between the Washington Nationals and the Devil\u2019s own team, the San Francisco Giants. \u00a0It principally involved Bryce Harper, of the Nationals, and Hunter Strickland, of the Devil\u2019s team.<\/p>\n

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The fight has drawn considerable attention, even from political commentators. \u00a0I offer the three articles below as evidence of this:<\/p>\n

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\u201cOf Course Bryce Harper Was Right To Charge the Mound\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cHarper-Strickland Brawl\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cBryce Harper\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Bryce Harper<\/a>, I\u2019m proud to say, is an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<\/a>. \u00a0And, given his name, he\u2019s very likely a relative of mine.<\/p>\n

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Who says<\/em> we\u2019re bland and boring?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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