Essays on Radicalism

68 him here against-his will, we do not like to associate with him well enough for that. He is a hard loser and it certainly will be fun to hear him cry. We know that certain things are necessary to our general wellfare and we will do them, but we will make conditions intolerable for "Georgie". The Mormon church will be the only church that can exist under the changed conditions; In the first place it is all that it claims to be; If God had not directed it it could not have been a success surounded by competition; God let them be persecuted to intensify their natural prejudices; then He gave them a few new ones, the same as he gave the Jews, to keep them pure- to help them from intermarring with others, to give the Rachel a high ideal. Every religious idea that is found in any co-operative religous colony is found in the Mormon church, but it is the only one that has grown strong

66 enough to put its ideas into practice. In time to come a man will have to qualify for church membership in order to have a home - and they have a high ideal.

The law of Heredity shows me why I have failed to fit in succesfully in life so far; my mental make up is half Mason - half Mormon. The Mormon part kept me out of Masonry; The Mason kept me from being loyal to and submissive to any one or any organization. I would never have thought of joining a church like the Mormon and be loyal and give unquestioned obedience to a head of the church like this church require, if I had not, by my own investigation proved beyond a doubt that the official head of the Church is always right.

He can do no wrong, The president of the Church may do things that the conservative says are wrong - but what is right and what is wrong? Every thing the conservative does

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injures me, every time I even came in contact with him I always got the worst of the deal and every time it was because he was prejudiced against me, but he was right in treating me the way he did because he taught me things that I could have learned in no other way. God has made us "Wage Slaves" and let them persecute us in order to develope our intelligence. He never created a condition that He did not provide a way out; and when the time comes and I help persecute them it will be because I know that the only way they can learn is the way I learned - but we will not persecute them the same way that they do us, the keenest torture I know of is to laugh at them; They torture us physically - we will torture them mentally, their fears are well developed - we will play on their fears - we will make them do a thousand things that they are afraid to do - They are

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ashamed of their own person; We will make them walk the streets naked, we will violate all their prejudices in every way that we can devise, we have a keen sense of humor and we will develope it at their expense, It sure will be a funny world - for us.

In the Mormon Church I can go as high as my intelligence will take me, I will get helps instead of kicks, but I would have never found my Church and my people if I had not been kicked toward it by my friend - the Enemy. Every time that I have ever been kicked it has taught me some thing; but they never did get me very many times in the same place. When Labor leaders and politicians tell us things and we know contrary by our own experience we call them "fakers", When preachers try to scare us with Hell fire we laugh at them, they can not tell us right from wrong - We know they can not tell us anything -

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We can not tell them anything either, They can not understand us any more than they could if we came from some far distant planet; They have never had our kind of experience; We know things that they do not know and God must want us to profit by their ignorance as they have profited by our ignorance for lo these many years.

I know now why excommunication is the only punishment the Church has - it is enough; a person with the Mormon temperment has no chance for a happy successful life apart from his own kind of people; no more chance than I had - It makes no difference how rich they are, God wants them to find out that there are things in life that money will not buy; He wants them to find out from their own experience, not only that the Church is right, but why it is right, That He has created all things and all things are right.