My hubby was impressed with his direct, straight up questions; the way that he reasoned out his questions.
I loved the way it backed church leaders into the proverbial corner; they couldn't answer him without doing damage to themselves and TSCC.
All of my immediate family has read it and feels the same way; the only one who hasn't read it is our oldest daughter, but I have a feeling that our son in law has read it and hasn't told her because he doesn't want to get her thinking; he wants to keep her and the kids TBM's.
Son-in-law wants to keep the lie going to keep a fake peace within the family?
Sounds like he (respectfully) is like the Mormon I told: too afraid to adjust their beliefs and lives around the truth. They say you can’t get back time, but freeing up Sunday’s sound like a nice way to get your time back.
I think our son-in-law feels it's so important to please his relatives (all TBM's) because if he and our daughter were to be done with TSCC, his relatives and many friends would drop them in a heartbeat; just like our neighbors and so called friends did to us.
Speaking for myself, I would rather know the truth; even if it meant jettisoning false friendships.
I think that the vast majority of humans need to feel that they "belong" to a nice comfortable Monster-hating crowd. Because if you're carrying a torch in that crowd, you know it can't be hunting for you.
Too many people think that they can't survive without a crowd. And there's some truth to that. It's why solitary detention is considered a grevious punishment.
newcomer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > “I might not want to see > what’s in that letter.”
That's exactly how most TBMs would respond, including my own friends. They choose to avoid anything that might not be faith-promoting, dismissing it as lies or twisted truths without ever reading it.
It would mostly be those searching for the truth, no matter where that truth may lead them, who would read such material.
I had to be ready to accept that the truth could lead me where I didn't want to go before I ever read anything that might end up changing everything that I thought about my world.
It takes a lot of courage to do that, and you can't do it until you're ready for it. The truth has to become more important to you than needing the Church to be true.
Self-preservation. It makes sense, albeit it’s weak and cowardly.
But the “I might not want to see what’s in that letter” is even more rich given this Mormon works for a mortgage company and I’m sure they don’t tell their customers to sign contracts without reading all the details first.
>That's exactly how most TBMs would respond, including my own friends. They choose to avoid anything that might not be faith-promoting, dismissing it as lies or twisted truths without ever reading it.
Interesting, isn't it? What does a missionary say to a prospect who refuses to read the offered Book of Mormon? "How can you know whether it's true or not, if you haven't even read it?"
It's either been a wake-up call or an inoculation against the Mormon Historical Virus. Actually I've only seen the latter so far. And it requires constant booster shots obtainable at your local ward house at the low cost of your self esteem.
kentish Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My experience. Previously the information in the > letters was "anti Mormon lies". Post letters it > seems to be "Nothing new, I knew all about that."