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Discussion and info on politics from an LDS perspective. Civility is a must here, and incivility, veiled or direct, will be removed and its posters will be subject to discipline.

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cookiecaper 0 points1 point 6 months ago[-]

The thing is that most people do not have the patience or the ability to discern their sources intelligently, and they are all raised and trained in the ways of the mainstream where the "bad guys" are determined by ratings and profits more than truth or wisdom.

I think in this case it's important to remember the principle of milk before meat. We must nurse and groom citizens gently before we overcome them with a great flood of information, especially controversial or debated knowledge, otherwise they 'drown' and return to the perceived safety and comfort of mainstream thought.

Let us recall Matthew 10:16:

16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

I think that scripture is instructive of the image our church tries to project. The most important truth is the gospel's basic tenets and saving ordinances of baptism. Our people and our church project this image at the command of Christ to maximize the mobility of this message among men of different political and economic theories.

As always, we need to take our page from the leaders of the Church and from Christ Himself. If we're attempting to teach principles of freedom to initiated members, we have to be careful to appear "harmless as doves" and remain discreet that our messages can have maximum mobility.

Most people have violent or unpleasant reactions to "conspiracy theories", no matter how much evidence in support exists. As such, I think that we should gain trust and good things and be careful where we talk about economic or political combinations that are out to kill us, and that as a general address or mode of discussion it is much, much safer to leave out the conspiracies.

However, we can nurse people to prepare them, and then speak truth as they grow up and become ready to receive it. After a program and the proper receipt of the doctrinal and scriptural basis for the prevalence of conspiracy and secret combinations, then, in private, the truths of these things can be taught, but I think it's too dangerous to and imprudent to insist upon in a general sense or a basic mode of operation.

calico 0 points1 point 6 months ago[-]

You should give a quick summary of this because I can't concentrate long enough to read the whole thing.