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I assume the Biblical allusion was lost on no one.
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So, is it the "contempt" that makes one an anti-Mormon? I honestly don’t know. Or is it intent?
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James Wood refers to the "fraudulence and nonsense" at the heart of Mormonism and some here would call him a "religious bigot." But there is no compunction about such themes as "Great Apostasy," "Restored Church," "priesthood," and "testimony." I think even Benson and the Tanners are not really "anti-Mormon" at all in the same sense that people are anti-Semitic when they talk about Jews being greedy and shady and a Fifth Column. If you're bent on going around announcing to the world the claims Mormonism makes and aggressively proseletising those views including trying to get into their kids' heads, folks are entitled to take a hard look and engage in a reasoned dialogue. To test religion's claims with reason and empricism is a long and noble tradition and the "restoration" of that tradition is what led to America itself. No religion gets a free pass, especially those effectively preaching a form of biblical literalism. Mormonism's relationship with reason and modernity is of course no easier than it ever has been for any religion. It's easier for Mormonism to delude itself that it is different because it came about in the midst of the Enlightenment, in fact reacting to it, and (superficially) adapted some of its nomenclature and perspectives to its own purposes which do not differ from Mormonism's (unrecognized) forebears.
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But, then again, I'm not an anti-Mormon writer of anti-Mormon literature.
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With respect to your Classical allusions point, again, what's Classical, and what's modern is often inseparable conceptually. We allude to Classical thought all the time without realizing it. In JS's time there was a lot of enthusiasm about rediscovering this part of our past (as well as ancient Egypt, etc., essentially all of antiquity) and much Classical thought was in the air and absorbable by osmosis.
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"Anti-Mormon" doesn't necessarily decribe WHAT they say, but WHY they're saying it.
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