{"id":2567,"date":"2011-06-10T07:00:57","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T14:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/?p=2567"},"modified":"2011-06-10T07:00:57","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T14:00:57","slug":"we-should-be-mormons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2011\/06\/10\/we-should-be-mormons\/","title":{"rendered":"We Should Be Mormons"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It is discouraging to see many Mormons in our day and age following some fundamentalist creedal Christians in taking an anti-science stance relating to organic evolution or other matters in which fundamentalist creedal Christians, based on their own unnecessary inferences from the Bible, have chosen to see faith at war with science.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/abev.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/13\/we-should-be-mormons\/\">We Should Be Mormons \u00c2\u00ab ABEV: a bird\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eye view<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is discouraging to see many Mormons in our day and age following some fundamentalist creedal Christians in taking an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2011\/06\/10\/we-should-be-mormons\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We Should Be Mormons<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>We Should Be Mormons<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2011\/06\/10\/we-should-be-mormons\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"We Should Be Mormons\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It is discouraging to see many Mormons in our day and age following some fundamentalist creedal Christians in taking an &hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2011\/06\/10\/we-should-be-mormons\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Our Thoughts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-06-10T14:00:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Kim Siever\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Kim Siever\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2011\/06\/10\/we-should-be-mormons\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2011\/06\/10\/we-should-be-mormons\/\",\"name\":\"We Should Be Mormons\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2011-06-10T14:00:57+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-06-10T14:00:57+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/99e996edc89affe5206808d3f65869d1\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2011\/06\/10\/we-should-be-mormons\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/\",\"name\":\"Our Thoughts\",\"description\":\"Thought-provoking commentary on life, politics, religion and social issues.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/99e996edc89affe5206808d3f65869d1\",\"name\":\"Kim Siever\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/417c7b5f55d329bdd0f64ef4396831db?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/417c7b5f55d329bdd0f64ef4396831db?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Kim Siever\"},\"description\":\"Queer Mormon poet with radical political views. 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