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Originally Posted by SoonerCoug
I don't agree with that statement.
The Church is about idealism in an un-ideal world. I don't think there is anything wrong with that, even if bad people end up with authority on occasion.
Great book: Paradise Reclaimed by Halldor Laxness (who won the nobel prize in lit for a different book). It's about some icelandic guy who does insane things including abandoning of his home and family in iceland in order to move to Utah and settle in Spanish Fork. The book compares and contrasts the great society that Mormons built in Utah with the miserable life in 19th century Iceland.
I think the major point of the book is that while idealism is often viewed as pure insanity to outsiders, the greatest things can be achieved by idealistic, unrealistic, inspired people.
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looks like an interesting book, but your post makes it sound like it is non-fiction. It is fiction.
http://www.amazon.com/Paradise-Recla...4103994&sr=8-6