Posted by:
Elder Berry
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Date: February 03, 2014 05:20PM
forbiddencokedrinker Wrote:
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> Instead of writing it in their regular
> English, they attempted to copy the magical
> English of Elizabethan England. Their imitations
> worked about as well, as the C-17 that the natives
> of the Solomon Islands built out in the jungle.
This idea intrigues me to no end.
The huge major difference between imitating scientific "magic" and religious "magic" makes all the difference.
Mormonism is a Shakespearean Cargo Cult replete with its own Elizabethan speaking American gods and its deified leader named Smith who made himself into an Old Testament prophet and created a bunch of Jesus groupies with names like Timothy to be in his book.
Smith & Co. found Old Tyme Religion and saw it working in the revivals of their day. They saw the real affects and effects of the machinery of Protestant Revivals and Catholic movements and they made a folk magic/religious model after what gave the Protestants their power - language and stories.
The Jaredites are the prime example of crafting Old Testament myths and stories in trying to make planes to fly or barges float which never could.
Smith & Co. analyzed the old and tried to craft the new "strikingly akin to ancient suggestions." (Harold Bloom)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_MosesThey just will never make their cargo cult light bulbs really light up, no matter how many fingers of God get involved.