How Utah Keeps the American Dream Alive
19th April 2017
Well, for one thing, it’s full of people who ‘self-identify’ as Christians. Funny how that works.
19th April 2017
Well, for one thing, it’s full of people who ‘self-identify’ as Christians. Funny how that works.
April 19th, 2017 at 14:58
Anyone who believes that the Mormons are Christians is guilty of drinking the Kool Aid.
And I fail to see how the presence of “self-identified” Christians (for which statement you fail to provide any evidence) affects lowered poverty rates or greater upward mobility. Correlation is not causality.
April 19th, 2017 at 18:53
Christianity properly understood, sincerely embraced, and diligently practiced naturally results in a society with less poverty. Both wealth and poverty are largely the result of certain behaviors that people choose. The behaviors prescribed by Christianity are more conducive to a prosperous society with low crime, better health, less poverty, and greater stability; the opposite behaviors lead to a society with more crime, more disease, more poverty, and more chaos. It’s not that hard to understand.
April 20th, 2017 at 09:55
Under that explanation, there are plenty of self-professed Christians in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Yet the results aren’t the same as those in Utah.
I’m sorry. Something else must be at work, here.
April 20th, 2017 at 10:33
“I’m sorry. Something else must be at work, here.”
It is a matter of practiced morality vs professed morality. The Mormons have a high standard of morality, not that we agree with all of it, but their practicing of personal ethics regarding work, honesty and family as a priority etc. should be emphasized.
Utah has a State government that acknowledges and promotes the rightful place and function of faith in society as well. “Let that be a lesson to us all.”
The overlap of Mormon values vs Christian values is significant. We should revisit our heritage with Utah in mind. The Founders might have known what they were doing by putting restraint on the Federal Government on matters of Church and Faith. The courts have botched this so badly the people who have high moral ethics are now indentured to those who live irresponsibly. Its a fundamental fact of life when you are on public assistance, it doesn’t matter how you behave, the checks just keep coming.
April 20th, 2017 at 22:16
*shrug* Maybe we’d all be better off if everyone converted to Mormonism.
You first.
April 21st, 2017 at 20:06
I wasn’t talking about anything as nonspecific and nebulous as “self-professed” Christians. I was actually pretty specific about the kind of Christians I was talking about.