A Charitable View of Reactionaries
March 04th, 2013 by G.
Charity, it turns out, makes you awesome.
I don’t think Mormonism is simply reactionary as such. The average Mormon ought to disagree with some elements of the reactionary viewpoint expressed here, especially the biological racial elements. But its undeniable that Mormonism is a countercultural phenomenon under attack by the Established Church of Cultural Liberalism, and it would behoove us to be familiar with arguments in our favor.
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Filed under: Deseret Review | Tags: Dark Enlightenment, LDS, presentism, tradition, Yvain
March 04th, 2013 18:39:37
MC
March 5, 2013
“I don’t think Mormonism is simply reactionary as such.”
The political weakness of reaction is precisely that it consists of disparate communities who have no ideological cohesion beyond “not progressive.” Communism was a sufficiently obvious threat to foster the necessary unity for a coherent reactionary bloc during the Cold War. Nothing like it exists today.
Although cultural explanations of racial disparity are both more attractive and more plausible than strictly biological ones, I’m not prepared to say that the biological explanations violate any obvious precept of Christianity unless and until they serve as an excuse for obviously un-Christian acts, violation of rights, etc.
[Editor: fair enough]