Comments on: In Our Image http://www.mormonmentality.org/2008/03/21/in-our-image.htm Thoughts and Asides by Peculiar People Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:49:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Rachel http://www.mormonmentality.org/2008/03/21/in-our-image.htm/comment-page-1#comment-114638 Rachel Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:35:35 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/2008/03/21/in-our-image.htm#comment-114638 Hi I found this site by mistake i was searching Google that II'm agree with you. Hi I found this site by mistake i was searching Google that II’m agree with you.

]]> By: queuno http://www.mormonmentality.org/2008/03/21/in-our-image.htm/comment-page-1#comment-80438 queuno Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:05:56 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/2008/03/21/in-our-image.htm#comment-80438 ESO - Now why would I do a silly thing like that. ESO – Now why would I do a silly thing like that.

]]> By: ESO http://www.mormonmentality.org/2008/03/21/in-our-image.htm/comment-page-1#comment-80387 ESO Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:53:16 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/2008/03/21/in-our-image.htm#comment-80387 DKL--I guess you could find some quotes to support that. I'm OK with it as long as you don't try to make him an American! Atieno--Donji! So nice of you to read. queuno--I would guess so, but I wouldn't SAY it if I were running for office.... matt b--thanks--I love to think that Jesus would agree. DKL–I guess you could find some quotes to support that. I’m OK with it as long as you don’t try to make him an American!

Atieno–Donji! So nice of you to read.

queuno–I would guess so, but I wouldn’t SAY it if I were running for office….

matt b–thanks–I love to think that Jesus would agree.

]]> By: matt b http://www.mormonmentality.org/2008/03/21/in-our-image.htm/comment-page-1#comment-80379 matt b Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:14:50 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/2008/03/21/in-our-image.htm#comment-80379 Thanks, Emily. Making the sacred meaningful is, I think, why theology's important. And I of course think Jesus would agree. Thanks, Emily. Making the sacred meaningful is, I think, why theology’s important. And I of course think Jesus would agree.

]]> By: queuno http://www.mormonmentality.org/2008/03/21/in-our-image.htm/comment-page-1#comment-80364 queuno Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:01:26 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/2008/03/21/in-our-image.htm#comment-80364 Christ probably looks more like Osama bin Laden than Donny Osmond, at any rate. Christ probably looks more like Osama bin Laden than Donny Osmond, at any rate.

]]> By: atieno http://www.mormonmentality.org/2008/03/21/in-our-image.htm/comment-page-1#comment-80348 atieno Sat, 22 Mar 2008 07:51:23 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/2008/03/21/in-our-image.htm#comment-80348 Hi esodhiambo. I've been reading this blog for a while, and I must admit, I'm addicted! Your Luo connections intrigue me (for obvious reasons). Above all, it's nice to come on here and read a variety of perspectives from members of the Church of LDS. As for recreating God in our own image, we're all guilty of that. Best case scenario, it allows us to form a personal relationship with God. Worst case scenario, we use it to justify our own selfish agendas. Your insights on the atonement are precisely what I feel, and in fact, have felt for a number of years. Easter is the most special time of the year for me because it is a time of transformation and of possibilities. Have a Happy Easter. Hi esodhiambo.
I’ve been reading this blog for a while, and I must admit, I’m addicted!

Your Luo connections intrigue me (for obvious reasons). Above all, it’s nice to come on here and read a variety of perspectives from members of the Church of LDS.

As for recreating God in our own image, we’re all guilty of that. Best case scenario, it allows us to form a personal relationship with God. Worst case scenario, we use it to justify our own selfish agendas.

Your insights on the atonement are precisely what I feel, and in fact, have felt for a number of years. Easter is the most special time of the year for me because it is a time of transformation and of possibilities.

Have a Happy Easter.

]]> By: DKL http://www.mormonmentality.org/2008/03/21/in-our-image.htm/comment-page-1#comment-80345 DKL Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:44:49 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/2008/03/21/in-our-image.htm#comment-80345 Great post. Just a couple of mostly irrelevant comments: When I hear people talk about feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, and housing the homeless, I'm reminded of one of Robert Redford's line in The Candidate, where he begins making fun of his own, meaningless campaign rhetoric, saying, "We can't any longer play off black against old! Young against poor! This country cannot house its houseless! Feed its foodless!" Also, you site this guy in your ward who wants to think that Jesus is the Brawny Paper Towel Man, and you posit that he wants to think this because he likes to think of <i>himself</i> as the Brawny Paper Towel Man. This is very insightful and no doubt correct. For my part, I like to view Jesus as an angry, argumentative crank. Great post. Just a couple of mostly irrelevant comments:

When I hear people talk about feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, and housing the homeless, I’m reminded of one of Robert Redford’s line in The Candidate, where he begins making fun of his own, meaningless campaign rhetoric, saying, “We can’t any longer play off black against old! Young against poor! This country cannot house its houseless! Feed its foodless!”

Also, you site this guy in your ward who wants to think that Jesus is the Brawny Paper Towel Man, and you posit that he wants to think this because he likes to think of himself as the Brawny Paper Towel Man. This is very insightful and no doubt correct. For my part, I like to view Jesus as an angry, argumentative crank.

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