Can Mormonism save America?
This is an interesting piece from Slate. It seems to be somewhat predicated on the notion that America will shortly reach its demise but if one forgets about time scales and thinks instead hypothetically, it asks what will save America? Specifically, will it be Mormonism? Crikey! … For America’s intangible qualities to get preserved—our shared history, our ideals, our passions—someone needs to do the preserving. [There’s a case to be made] that the Christians kept Rome from being erased from our collective memory—that the Catholic Church was the one entity that maintained Roman hierarchies, Roman thought, and the Latin language as the rest of the continent descended into illiteracy. A religion is also a good candidate to keep America alive. The history of Catholicism shows that religious movements can outlast the political systems in which they arose. Our idealized conception of what America stands for has its origins in religious belief as well: the Puritans’ values of industry and
