If you are Jewish, the following should sound eerily familiar.
From the UK Spectator:
The rise of the Mormons
SATURDAY, 18TH JUNE 2011
"Are Mormons going to inherit the earth? Or at least America? It is starting to look as though they might. The Mormon church is only 181 years old, and its followers make up just 2 per cent of the U.S. population. Yet they have an amazing number of the top jobs. It is well-known that two leading republicans, Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman, strong contenders for their party's presidential nomination in 2012, are Latter-day Saints. It is less known that Mormons increasingly run corporate America. A new Bloomberg report offers an impressive list of Mormon business leaders So here. Bloomberg’s Caroline Winter attributes the success of Mormons to the Missionary Training Centre, a sort of indoctrination camp for the Mormon work ethic. And I'm sure that's right. Yet Mormons also benefit from the fact they are devoted to their families and almost invariably likeable. For all their weirdnesses — and there are many — they tend to be incredibly nice, albeit often in a rather disturbing, Midwich Cuckoo way. Even Romney, as cheesy and slimey as any politician, has a certain irrepressible charm. All of this and more was said by Philip Delves Broughton in the Spectator in March. But the rise and rise of the Mormons is an ongoing story."
As I am at a loss for words, I encourage you to read Cranmer's knife-like evisceration on his blog.
Thanks.
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