Let the Mormon Talk!

Regardless of what you think of Orson Scott Card, there can be no doubt that he is a great writer. Ender's Game is one of the best fiction novels of the past 30 years. I am not familiar with all of his political beliefs, or, for that matter, his specific religious beliefs. He is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (aka The Mormons), and a firm believer that Star Trek is, and should remain, dead.

Card wrote this article, voicing his views on the recent NewsWeek fiasco, the link to which I stole from my good buddy Mike's blog. It is a fairly long read, but it has some great bits:

Nobody respects people who riot over such offenses, period. But we're so used to lying about things like that and pretending to take this sort of thing seriously that the truth has become unspeakable in polite company.

Yet this is precisely the truth that most needs to be spoken. The fact that Muslims riot over such an offense does not make anybody in the world admire Islam more, or take the words of the Prophet Muhammed more seriously. It just makes us shake our heads and think, Are these people supposed to be ready for self-government?