by Seattle Jon (bio)
Another installment from Saintspeak
, the mormon dictionary from writer Orson Scott Card. Previous installments can be found here.The Letter C
Celestial Kingdom - to get there you have to be righteous, hardworking, baptized, married in the temple, and willing to go for years without seeing any of your friends.
Chapel - to children, the worst place in the world from which they endeavor to escape at any cost. To teenagers, a place where they can talk endlessly without anyone yelling for them to get off the phone. To fathers, a place of refuge from the world where they may sleep. To mothers, the exact equivalent of a nightmare amusement park, where they must tend the children without rides, refreshments, or relief.
Church - 1. A building with a pulpit and a basketball hoop. 2. A loving fellowship of believers who gather together to help each other and serve God.
Clerk - the invincible and the invisible. If you ever want to move a mountain, parcel it out to all the clerks in the church and it will be done by the last Sunday of the month.
Conservative - after the presidency of Heber J. Grant, what all Mormons were perceived by nonmembers to be.
Correlate - to censor. "I thought when I wrote it that my poem was inspired; now that it's been correlated, it has achieved something finer: it is inoffensive."
Councilor - a member of a stake high council. A person with much responsibility and uncertain authority.
Counselor - one of the two non-presiding members of a presidency or bishopric. A person with much authority and uncertain responsibility.
Crickets and Seagulls - from the mormon point of view, the crickets came as a phenomenon of nature; god sent the seagulls. From the agnostic point of view, the coming both of the crickets and of the seagulls was natural. From the anti-mormon point of view, god was definitely on the side of the crickets.
Signature Books: hereWikipedia (Orson Scott Card): here
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