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LDS like full helping of sugar

Honeybee | 1:04 a.m. Nov. 4, 2009

Perhaps you are mistaking sweetness for naiveté. Just because someone abstains from smoking, drinking, and cussing doesn’t necessarily mean they are sweet.

You mention Saint Hildegard of Bingen, who was quite a fascinating woman. She was accomplished in music, science, medicine, and literature — all back in the 12th century.

Honeybun (no stinger) | 9:15 a.m. Nov. 4, 2009

I spent the day yesterday (at the elections) with hundreds of good, sweet people, who were not pursuing an agenda to judge or preach, as many people like Honeybee, who seems to use their world view as the standard of comparison.
These were just some of the hundreds of thousands of people around here who diligently, even tenaciously, live clean, sweet lives. Great neighbors, productive people.
In the restored church, there are many women who are -quietly- "accomplished in music, science, medicine, and literature".

Dave T | 7:57 a.m. Nov. 5, 2009

LDS sweetness is not just spiritual. Except for a mission and 4 years at BYU, I've lived my long life in Arizona. Now, whenever I visit the Salt Lake & Utah Valleys in general and BYU in particular, I'm consistently struck by the (excessive) availability of candy, ice cream and other sweets.

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Stepford, Utah | 2:10 p.m. Nov. 5, 2009

If keeping sweet means giving my mind over to church authority, then I'd rather be piquant.

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