Meacham notes that Mormons’ worldview incorporates a sense of persecution. It is not entirely clear why he believes this to be remarkable. Christians’ worldview also incorporates a sense of persecution, for precisely the same reason: persecution. “The story of the faith of Romney’s ancestors on the American continent is one of exile and redemption,” he writes, “of blessing and punishment and, perhaps above all, of struggle and endurance amid trial and tribulation.” (Also amid excessive oppositional pairings.) Exile and redemption, you say? “Which, when you think about it,” notes Meacham, “is a pretty fair description of a close-fought presidential campaign.” An election is something like a cosmic struggle between good and evil pitting man’s yearning for holiness and communion against his vices, his smallness, and the defects of his nature: That is precisely what I had not been thinking, though I suppose there are some who do think of elections that way. (Those people are insane.)
Time Magazine's 'Half-Baked' Cover Story on Romney's Mormonism
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| 2 | | Meacham notes that Mormons’ worldview incorporates a sense of persecution. It is not entirely clear why he believes this to be remarkable. Christians’ worldview also incorporates a sense of persecution, for precisely the same reason: persecution. “The story of the faith of Romney’s ancestors on the American continent is one of exile and redemption,” he writes, “of blessing and punishment and, perhaps above all, of struggle and endurance amid trial and tribulation.” (Also amid excessive oppositional pairings.) Exile and redemption, you say? “Which, when you think about it,” notes Meacham, “is a pretty fair description of a close-fought presidential campaign.” An election is something like a cosmic struggle between good and evil pitting man’s yearning for holiness and communion against his vices, his smallness, and the defects of his nature: That is precisely what I had not been thinking, though I suppose there are some who do think of elections that way. (Those people are insane.)
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