On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 21:22, Hyrum Wright wrote: > Do we though? I mean, think about how the adversary works, he tries to > get us to change the line between right and wrong, ever so slightly. > Then, he gets us to move it a little more. Eventually, we are so messed > up in our morales, that we begin to call "good evil and evil good." > That's what happened all throughout the apostasy, until, as a society, > things were very convoluted (e.g. selling of indulgences, etc.). I, for > one am grateful for those that help keep us, individually, and as a > people, on the strait and narrow.
If you are so insecure of your own moral fortitude then by all means let someone else who is SO much more sure of theirs decide for you. That's your choice. The apostasy happened because people became greedy and uneducated. People ceased rational thought and followed blindly the followings of corrupt ecclesiastical leaders. Give me all your lines about "the adversary" blurring lines, but I think if we take a step back and really examine things with reason we can see what is right and what is wrong. In fact, many times in history things that are good have been called evil and things that are evil have been called good. If we don't use reason to examine them, then how do we find out which is right? Sure, the dogmaticists will call the people who make these discoveries evil and say that they call "good evil and evil good" but they will only be condeming themselves. -- Michael Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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