A Mormon Tycoon Wants to Build Joseph Smith’s Mega-Utopia in Vermont

[RebeccaJ]

The LDS members around these parts ( Utah) are not fond of this guy’s plans. He has also been buying up land in Provo, adjacent to BYU, with the intent to build his Zion Platt. That is a very suburban area and none of the burb-ites are thrilled with what he is hoping to build.

 

[Young_Ludovicus]

This man and I think very much alike. The difference is I keep thinking about a catholic commune and I don’t have the money.

But this would be a great way to fight back in the culture war and put a stop to the dominant secular culture.

Solar energy, greenhouses for developing crops, maybe also breed eatable insects, with eating meat becoming a luxury. All in walking distance of each other, so no cars are necessary. In the center will be a church.

It’s a bit like with the Ave Maria idea in Florida. But I think this sort of thing is the best thing to revitalize catholic identity across Western Europe.

 

[jcrichton]

It also sounds like the back story in a sci-fi dystopian novel.

…with the added fiendishness that you get to pay to play (which would make every paying member a masochist). :doh2::doh2::doh2:

Maran atha!

Angel

 

[jcrichton]

This man and I think very much alike. The difference is I keep thinking about a catholic commune and I don’t have the money.

But this would be a great way to fight back in the culture war and put a stop to the dominant secular culture.

Solar energy, greenhouses for developing crops, maybe also breed eatable insects, with eating meat becoming a luxury. All in walking distance of each other, so no cars are necessary. In the center will be a church.

It’s a bit like with the Ave Maria idea in Florida. But I think this sort of thing is the best thing to revitalize catholic identity across Western Europe.

…the thought has not escaped me… specially when I hear about people commenting about the loss of spirituality and the erosion of the faithful (Laity and Religious) and Cleric (diminishing in number, getting old, and losing their Faith)…

…but there are two things that keep coming into my mind… 1) Jesus’ prayed not that the Father would remove His Disciples (the Church) from the world, but that He Kept them Saved (Separated and protected, in God’s Terms), and 2) how would our Faith be tested if we separate ourselves from the rest of the World?

…St. Paul was one of the greatest Evangelists/Preachers, in deed the most prolific Writer of the New Testament, yet even he was not spared having to suffer persecutions and living amongst not only non-Believers but outright anti-Christians… enough said about St. Peter whose end was foretold by Jesus Christ Himself–it is in our infirmities when we are Strong because that is when Christ can Give us more of Himself!

Though separation is never the answer; Christian Unity is!

Maran atha!

Angel

 

[zaffiroborant]

This man and I think very much alike. The difference is I keep thinking about a catholic commune and I don’t have the money.

But this would be a great way to fight back in the culture war and put a stop to the dominant secular culture.

Solar energy, greenhouses for developing crops, maybe also breed eatable insects, with eating meat becoming a luxury. All in walking distance of each other, so no cars are necessary. In the center will be a church.

It’s a bit like with the Ave Maria idea in Florida. But I think this sort of thing is the best thing to revitalize catholic identity across Western Europe.

Evangelists don’t hide from the world they proclaim the good news to the world, you can’t do that cowering in an enclave.