Sympathy toward unusual Religious Practice

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17. True. Mormons do operate in a tradition.

To a kid today 1830 might as well be 1380.

But since I favor no persecution of or discrimination against Mormons my relative lack of respect for that (fairly recent but real to folks who feel it) tradition isn't so weighty.

There is, of course, a larger American cultural tradition with cultish aspects roughly as old—devotion to a society based on African slavery.

"Heritage not hate."

And it is a heritage. Many people were born into it long after it was "acceptable" and accepted its traditions and that tradition gives meaning to thier sense of themselves and the place of their people in society. But fuck 'em.