You must not have been issued your Joseph Smith translation of the dictionary. The most correct dictionary in the world. Integrity: agree with LDS leadership even if they are wrong.
Because mormons confuse integrity with loyalty to the church where as we see it as loyalty to our own reason and judgement of what is good and what is true. This leads to diametrically opposites because it then means a mormon who notices some inconsistency or injustice must start lying to himself in order to remain loyal to his church and thus "keeping his integrity". Where as for us the very act of willfully lying to ourselves are the very act of giving up our integrity. Wether something is true or good in the first place must be more important than any loyalty to it. Integrity has no room for blind obedience.
"Integrity" comes from the same root word as "integral" or "integer" which mean whole or "whole number."
Integrity means that your actions and beliefs should be whole that they should not have contradictions. Keeping your word is the clearest example-if you actions fit your words then you have integrity.
Mormons use this idea along with social conditioning to create the illusion that following Mormon teachings is having "integrity."
They do this by coercing, through family and social pressures to CLAIM certain beliefs. Then they take the next step by attaching all kinds of caveats and extensions to this belief-- making it appear that one agrees with all manner of Mormon minutia.
For example if you say "I know the Church is true" as you've been conditioned to do, then you are expected to interpret that to mean "whatever the brethren do is the only right thing and I cannot disagree with it in any way."
This is how Mormonism uses the concept of "integrity" to force compliance and make blind obedience appear to be a virtue.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/12/2015 05:54PM by baura.
Real integrity is aligning yourself with what you personally believe to be the truth regardless of consequences.
Mormon integrity is aligning yourself with what the Mormon church tells you is truth while ignoring you own conscience, and then dodging the consequences.