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Date: October 29, 2021 06:36PM
This is the second mention in two days of the Mormonism: tender mercies.
I was curious so I looked it up.
Tender Mercies
The movie:
https://www.fandango.com › tender-mercies-69009 › c...
“Divorced country singer (Robert Duvall) stops drinking for loving widow (Tess Harper).”
Wiki:
“Tender Mercies is a 1983 American drama film directed by Bruce Beresford. The screenplay by Horton Foote focuses on Mac Sledge, a recovering alcoholic country music singer who seeks to turn his life around through his relationship with a young widow and her son in rural Texas.”
Review:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086423/“Description: A broken-down, middle-aged country singer gets a new wife, reaches out to his long-lost daughter, and tries to put his troubled life back together.”
The agency (in Ohio):
https://www.tendermerciesinc.org/“Tender Mercies exists to serve the vulnerable and abandoned. Our residents have lived on the streets while trying to cope with mental illness. We provide a home where individuals can live safely with dignity.
“Tender Mercies transforms the lives of homeless adults with mental illness by providing security, dignity, and community in a place they call home.”
Scriptures:
1Nephi 1:20: “But behold, I, Nephi, will show unto you that the tender mercies of the Lord are over all those whom he hath chosen, because of their faith, to make them mighty even unto the power of deliverance.”
Psalm 25:6: “Remember, O Lord, they tender mercies and they lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.
Roget’s Thesaurus:
“synonyms for tender mercies”:
“kick in the teeth”; “no pity”; “no quarter”; “pitilessness”; “small portion”; “unsympathetic treatment”
NG: Somebody must have become confused. These sound like antonyms to me, not synonyms. But funny (in an appalling way) when you think of Mormonism’s “tender mercies”.
It gave me a laugh to think of the movie Tender Mercies, a divorced alcoholic guy, with a "troubled life" being the main character. Three things Mormons don't approve of: divorce, booze and trouble.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/29/2021 06:36PM by Nightingale.