For me, it's irrelevant whether she's Morman, Catholic, Protestant, whatever
Hmm, and if she were, say, Muslim? To me, it's problematic when people use the popularity of the books (or the ridiculousness of sparkly vampires) as an excuse to bash a minority group that's faced a history of discrimination.*
* Not that that's what you were doing, but that that's the context in which a lot of the discussion is occurring.
I'm stridently atheist
I'm tepidly agnostic. *g* I think that as such, you and I are in a position of relative privilege in our respective societies. (Especially me, perhaps.) In that, if Dan Brown or whoever comes out with some wildly popular, horribly written series, we never have to worry about whether everyone's going to decide to attribute whatever horrible writing to their secular humanism, and whether we should brace ourselves for the bashing every time we click on a book or movie review. Because we can count on being seen as individuals first, members of a group second. LDS people aren't in that position yet, as can be seen by all the horribly ignorant, 'lolz, sparkly vampires are totally a Mormon thing, right?' comments.
Which is not to say the religion issue should be discussed, but just that it should be done in an informed way - which IMO necessarily includes hearing what actual LDS have to say. I think that was the point of rose_griffes earlier (amusing??) post linked above.
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Hmm, and if she were, say, Muslim? To me, it's problematic when people use the popularity of the books (or the ridiculousness of sparkly vampires) as an excuse to bash a minority group that's faced a history of discrimination.*
* Not that that's what you were doing, but that that's the context in which a lot of the discussion is occurring.
I'm stridently atheist
I'm tepidly agnostic. *g* I think that as such, you and I are in a position of relative privilege in our respective societies. (Especially me, perhaps.) In that, if Dan Brown or whoever comes out with some wildly popular, horribly written series, we never have to worry about whether everyone's going to decide to attribute whatever horrible writing to their secular humanism, and whether we should brace ourselves for the bashing every time we click on a book or movie review. Because we can count on being seen as individuals first, members of a group second. LDS people aren't in that position yet, as can be seen by all the horribly ignorant, 'lolz, sparkly vampires are totally a Mormon thing, right?' comments.
Which is not to say the religion issue should be discussed, but just that it should be done in an informed way - which IMO necessarily includes hearing what actual LDS have to say. I think that was the point of