Roseanne’s religious awakening
Wow. Mike Parker pointed this one out and I just had to share. This is an actual article in the Jerusalem Post. It contains such wild statements as these:
Surely, laudable goals for a 53-year old grandmother, who got her religious start as a child preacher in Mormon churches.
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To protect her children, Roseanne’s mother kept their Jewishness secret from the neighbors, and took the family to Sunday services at a Mormon temple.
There six-year old Roseanne discovered her first public stage, lecturing on the faith to Mormon congregations throughout Utah and becoming “like a little preaching rock star.” She was even elected president of a Mormon youth group.
One story, which her mother had told her, always brought down the house and Roseanne recited it once more.
“When I was three years old, I got Bell’s palsy on the left side of my face, so my mother called in a rabbi to pray for me, but nothing happened. Then my mother got a Mormon preacher, he prayed, and I was miraculously cured.”
Many years later, Roseanne learned that Bell’s palsy was generally a temporary affliction, so the rabbi arrived too early, while the Mormon came at the exactly right time.
To be fair they may have picked the word “temple” being confused. One hopes that this wasn’t promulgated by Roseanne. On the other hand it sure spreads a sows a lot of confusion regarding what a preacher is.
Great selection of quotes. I really liked these as well:
“There were only 50 Jewish families in [Salt Lake City] and there was a lot of anti-Semitism, which sometimes expressed itself violently.”
Huh? SLC a hot-bed of anti-semitism? I had no idea.
And I liked:
“…her father was a door-to-door salesman of sundry household goods, including a ready supply of crucifixes.”
I’m guessing those were not his best-sellers. Just a guess.
Comment by BrianJ — April 11, 2006 @ 11:47 pm
It’s weird because I know there are j-a-es out there who treat non-Mormons badly. I’ve even met a few. Then there are the well meaning but hopelessly confused parents who somehow have the warped view that all non-Mormons might not share our values and therefore don’t. But overall, I just suspect the majority are pretty decent people.
I can agree with complaining about the bad apples. But portraying us as a hotbed of anti-semetism? One would think that Jews do better here than most other places. All the proselytizing might be dang annoying, but anti-semetism? Within Mormonism isn’t that kind of like hating oneself? I could see anti-Evangelicalism, anti-Wiccanism, or anti-atheism. Just not anti-semetism.
(I’m sure someone will soon tune in with an example)
Comment by Clark Goble — April 11, 2006 @ 11:55 pm
This is nothing new. Anyone who has read Rosanned’sautobiography (I read excerpts in Newsweek or one of those magazines when I was in high school) already knows this.
Comment by Ivan Wolfe — April 12, 2006 @ 11:04 am
Oh, I know. I just am surprised in this day of easy google searches that this kind of misinformation can get published in a newspaper.
Comment by Clark Goble — April 12, 2006 @ 12:50 pm
j-a-es? This is a German LDS acronym for junge alleinstehende erwachsene (or young single adults). Otherwise, you’ve lost me.
Comment by john f. — April 12, 2006 @ 4:06 pm
The polite version of a word that means donkey in an other context.
Comment by Clark Goble — April 12, 2006 @ 4:17 pm
okay. fair enough. context is everything, clark, and I haven’t known you to use abbreviations for cuss words before.
Comment by john f. — April 12, 2006 @ 4:27 pm