Comments on: “This does not compute!” http://www.fairblog.org/2008/04/20/this-does-not-compute/ Defending Mormonism Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:59:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Steven Danderson http://www.fairblog.org/2008/04/20/this-does-not-compute/#comment-1939 Steven Danderson Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:48:01 +0000 http://www.fairblog.org/2008/04/20/this-does-not-compute/#comment-1939 Hi Seth! That intelligence tells me that I wouldn't want to be a Muslim or a Mormon in Russia! :-o Hi Seth!

That intelligence tells me that I wouldn’t want to be a Muslim or a Mormon in Russia!
:-o

]]> By: Steven Danderson http://www.fairblog.org/2008/04/20/this-does-not-compute/#comment-1938 Steven Danderson Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:45:26 +0000 http://www.fairblog.org/2008/04/20/this-does-not-compute/#comment-1938 Hi Veronica! It's not just the polygamist cultures that practise "inbreeding." In the "Redneck" culture of the US South, marrying cousins are not uncommon. The marriage of US singer Jerry Lee Lewis to his 13-year-old cousin [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Lee_Lewis] illustrates this phenomenon nicely. Moreover, while I am all for obeying the law, I am unprepared to damn polygamy, per se, as that wouold mean damning such people as the Patriarch Abraham. Hi Veronica!

It’s not just the polygamist cultures that practise “inbreeding.” In the “Redneck” culture of the US South, marrying cousins are not uncommon. The marriage of US singer Jerry Lee Lewis to his 13-year-old cousin [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Lee_Lewis] illustrates this phenomenon nicely.

Moreover, while I am all for obeying the law, I am unprepared to damn polygamy, per se, as that wouold mean damning such people as the Patriarch Abraham.

]]> By: Steven Danderson http://www.fairblog.org/2008/04/20/this-does-not-compute/#comment-1936 Steven Danderson Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:14:04 +0000 http://www.fairblog.org/2008/04/20/this-does-not-compute/#comment-1936 Hi Kerry! Long time, no cyber-see! Why use innuendo if you can get away with outright whoppers? ;) Hi Kerry! Long time, no cyber-see!

Why use innuendo if you can get away with outright whoppers?
;)

]]> By: Steven Danderson http://www.fairblog.org/2008/04/20/this-does-not-compute/#comment-1935 Steven Danderson Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:04:56 +0000 http://www.fairblog.org/2008/04/20/this-does-not-compute/#comment-1935 Hi James! It's news to me, as well. The majority of us are CONVERTS. It seems to me that these people would prefer to think that the news of LDS intelligence is nonexistent. Hi James!

It’s news to me, as well. The majority of us are CONVERTS.

It seems to me that these people would prefer to think that the news of LDS intelligence is nonexistent.

]]> By: Seth R. http://www.fairblog.org/2008/04/20/this-does-not-compute/#comment-1932 Seth R. Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:09:04 +0000 http://www.fairblog.org/2008/04/20/this-does-not-compute/#comment-1932 Last time I actually looked at polling data on Russian attitudes in the 1990s, the vast majority view was that all Chechens were drug dealers and that handicapped people should be euthanized. Great thing they got going on over there. Last time I actually looked at polling data on Russian attitudes in the 1990s, the vast majority view was that all Chechens were drug dealers and that handicapped people should be euthanized.

Great thing they got going on over there.

]]> By: Veronica http://www.fairblog.org/2008/04/20/this-does-not-compute/#comment-1931 Veronica Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:35:14 +0000 http://www.fairblog.org/2008/04/20/this-does-not-compute/#comment-1931 This is what happens when not only the media, but also some exceedingly misguided Latter-day Saints, refuse to distinguish between members of the Church and practicing polygamists. It confuses the heck out of the academic world. This is what happens when not only the media, but also some exceedingly misguided Latter-day Saints, refuse to distinguish between members of the Church and practicing polygamists. It confuses the heck out of the academic world.

]]> By: Kerry Shirts http://www.fairblog.org/2008/04/20/this-does-not-compute/#comment-1928 Kerry Shirts Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:44:11 +0000 http://www.fairblog.org/2008/04/20/this-does-not-compute/#comment-1928 Well...... you know...... if ya can't beat em with facts, beat em with innuendo. Well…… you know…… if ya can’t beat em with facts, beat em with innuendo.

]]> By: James http://www.fairblog.org/2008/04/20/this-does-not-compute/#comment-1922 James Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:17:17 +0000 http://www.fairblog.org/2008/04/20/this-does-not-compute/#comment-1922 This is news to me. Until now, I never knew I was guilty of inbreeding. I suppose the "low level of intelligence" doesn't extend to BYU's animation program. http://byunews.byu.edu/archive08-Mar-animationevent.aspx This is news to me. Until now, I never knew I was guilty of inbreeding.

I suppose the “low level of intelligence” doesn’t extend to BYU’s animation program.

http://byunews.byu.edu/archive08-Mar-animationevent.aspx

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