Our Persisting Memories

Over the next few weeks I'll be moving all the Clarkson posts to a second blog at clarkson.naasen.org (nothing has been set up yet).

Christmas is an interesting time of year. It’s hard to describe the American-ness of it all, but Christmas brings out everything a red-blooded American could want. Jesus, consumerism, good-will, charitable work, vacation. Personally, it makes me more sensitive to God speak and media frenzies. It makes me want to read CS Lewis and philosophize over the meaning of spirituality. Let me pretext the following information by saying that I am Mormon. The only reason this needs mentioning is that I’ll be using some Mormon eschatology/beliefs in here and I didn’t want this stuff to come out of left field for those that don’t know. On that same token I’m not exactly a “typical” Mormon. Typical ones tend to appear as far-far right wing evangelicals (discounting the obvious tensions between evangelicals and Mormons), though this is changing. Now that we have the pretext down, let’s dive right in. Richard Dawkins recently penned a book called The God Delusion . Essentially, it’s a book on...