Scott Carrier
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Scott Carrier has been an independent producer for public radio and is now a regular contributor to Ira Glass's "This American Life."
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Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 37, Number 1 (Spring 2004) (2004) — Artwork — 1 exemplaar
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So it is with a hoot of delight and recognition that I read Scott Carrier say, "It doesn't bother me that Mormons believe God grew up as a human being on a planet circling a sun called Kolob. I'm not upset when they tell me He came to Earth in a physical body and had sex with the Virgin Mary. These beliefs, as Jefferson said, can neither pick my pocket nor break my bones." Carrier says he does have a problem with one belief, " . . . that Mormons are God's chosen people and He gave this land to them. This is Zionism, and I'm against it, wherever it occurs, because it is nothing but a lie used to justify taking land and liberty from other people." Who is this guy? I'm only on page 8 and he's got me.
Carrier goes on to examine why he loves living in Utah anyway. As do I. The next chapter starts with him examining the reason he wants to go to Afghanistan right after 9-11. "I don't believe the news. The news is selling war and we're buying it. We're the richest nation on the planet and Afghanistan is the poorest nation on the planet. It's not war, it's a business, a trap, and we are walking right into it." This guy is good, I think. He's off to Afghanistan where he sees Taliban for himself. He ends up bringing a young man back as a student to Utah County. In the end, lives are changed. Mine was, just sitting in my armchair reading this book.
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