In my faith, CTR stands for "Choose The Right". Children in my faith learn this at an early age, about a decade before they learn the political ocncept that right is conservative and left is liberal. This political spectrum takes it's meaning from early european lore, loosely based on Judeo-Christian teachings from the Bible. I wonder if focusing on "CTR" so early in life is the reason for the statistic of a high correlation between Mormons and being a Republican - it's 70%. Jews are 70% Democratic. These are the extremes of most faiths in America.
The concept of right/left having the meaning of good/bad is not in Asian lore (I think). In Asian countries, wehre there is political freedom, I wonder how the generations of Mormons born in the faith line-up with conservative/liberal polotical beliefs
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