Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<\/a>. The red sandstone of the building\u2019s exterior was quarried in Indian Creek Canyon, almost eighteen miles away. It continues to be used for Latter-day Saint meetings, and was added to the National Historic Registry in 1972.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
I offer two more items from Paul McFate, 52 Good Reasons to Go to Church, Besides the Obvious Ones<\/em> (Chicago: ACTA Publications, 2004). \u00a0Both of them have been officially board-certified as appropriate for inclusion in your Christopher Hitchens Memorial \u201cHow Religion Poisons Everything\u201d File<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n- Fewer School Shootings (page 58) \u2014<\/strong> In his book Lost Boys<\/em>, psychologist J. Garbarino found that one of the common denominators for child criminal behavior is a lack of moral development. \u00a0Delinquent children fail to adapt well at school, they suffer from low self-esteem (which makes them hypersensitive to criticism), they are physically and\/or emotionally distant (or distanced) from their parents, and they themselves feel unsafe in their communities. \u00a0Each of these traits has been shown to be affected by religious observance and church attendance. \u00a0[J. Garbarino, Lost Boys: Why Our Sons Turn Violent and How We Can Save Them<\/em> (New York: New York Free Press, 1999)]<\/li>\n
- Friendlier People (page 59) \u2014<\/strong> Analysis of a 1992 sample of 2,107 black adults indicated that \u2014 even controlling for age, gender, physical characteristics, education, income, and self-esteem \u2014 those holding strong personal religious beliefs and looking to those beliefs for moral kindness, rather than being stern and judgmental, measured higher than average on attributes of personal friendliness, openness, lack of suspiciousness, and empathy. \u00a0[C. G. Ellison, \u201cAre Religious People Nice People? Evidence from the National Survey of Black Americans,\u201d Social Forces<\/em> 71 (1992): 411-430]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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The forepart of the day today was blustery and rainy, and we decided to drive around Bear Lake. \u00a0Then we headed up northwards to Ovid and Montpelier, Idaho, and over to Cokeville, Wyoming, before returning around the south end of the lake. \u00a0Ovid was founded by Scandinavian Latter-day Saints \u2014 notably, by a Thomas Peterson (no relative, I\u2019m confident). \u00a0But there were clearly quite a few Swiss converts in the area, as well, as illustrated by their work on the tabernacle in Paris, Idaho, which is shown above, and in area place names like Geneva and Bern.<\/p>\n
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