Contrary to the title, this post is not about war. It is also not about peace. It is about politics, but not the kind you’d think: It is not about Mormons as Republicans or the small band of Mormon Democrats. It is about an entirely new brand of politics—a politics that transcends war and peace, Republican and Democrat. This new kind of politics seeks to enfranchise everyone. It loves man, woman, black, white, old and young.  It doesn’t need the religious Right. Thanks to the polity’s blend of wealth, distraction, and bad reading, the new politics has seduced religion itself. What, then, is this mysterious liberator? The new politics is not Pacifism. The new politics is Passivism. And it is not such a new idea, anyway. It is as old as new Mormonism itself.

I’ll example you: A few weeks ago, Continue reading ‘Pacifism Versus Passivism, Or How I Grew Up Mormon and Learned to Love the Bomb’