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Snarr is confident that things will improve. After all, his whole life has been spent meeting challenges, including a childhood stutter, three Golden Gloves boxing championships in his native Idaho, and a tour as a Mormon missionary in Ireland ("Now that was tough," he roars). Snarr got into billboards because his father, a potato farmer, was too poor to send him to college. By designing weirdly shaped signs that visually jolted motorists, he earned his way through two years of Brigham Young University, then snagged a $400,000 sign contract from Harrah's casinos...
...Calvinist idea of "total depravity," the essential corruption of all man's powers. The authors point out that Jews in particular "do not hold that man is permanently tainted with guilt as a result" of Adam's sin, and quote also the second of the Mormon Articles of Faith, which states that "men will be punished for their own sins and not for Adam's transgressions." Unusual interpretations by smaller sects are noted elsewhere in the Reader. General William Booth's idea of a strongly centralized authority for the Salvation Army, the book points out, derived...
Proxy Baptism. Mormon interest in genealogy stems from the religion's status as a recent or "latterday" faith. Christ's Gospel, in Mormon belief, was lost in ancient times through man's wickedness and was not restored until Joseph Smith received his golden plates from the Angel Moroni in upstate New York in 1823. But the acceptance of the "restored Gospel," and baptism in the True Church that proclaimed it, was considered necessary to earn the highest reward after the resurrection, the "celestial kingdom." Some way, then, had to be found to bring into that kingdom those...
...Federal Communications Commission, which earlier this year threatened to order all cigarette commercials off the air waves. Both the FCC and the Federal Trade Commission promised to drop their proposals for stern regulatory action if the industry could make its plan work. Utah Democrat Frank Moss, the nonsmoking Mormon who heads the consumer subcommittee and is the leading tobacco opponent in the Senate, said happily that "the dike has been broken...
...Vegas is sick, of course, but in a curiously moralistic way that perhaps reflects its Mormon background. Pawnshops such as Stoney's (motto: "Hock It to Me, Baby"), the oldest in town, cheerfully advance money on wedding rings and spare automobile tires. They do draw the line at false teeth, eye glasses and hearing aids. Although prostitution is technically illegal in Las Vegas, an estimated 1,000 whores ply their profession on The Strip...