Centralia I’ve been fascinated by the Mormons for a fair amount of time, for reasons both personal and temperamental: personal, because of the Mormons I’ve known, and temperamental because of my interest in all God’s supposed communications with men. On my cross-country bike trip in 1999 I biked across the Burnt-Over District of New York, so-called […]
Counterfactualism.
30-Mar-11http://philldiscgolf.com/th1s_1s_a_4o4.html Of the same brand as Mormonism: the Birthers. The fact that the name is appropriate just shows how much this is an identity issue. “Ask in your heart if it’s true” that Obama has no birth certificate would mean here, “ask yourself whether you feel he’s one of us.” If you feel he is, then […]