The Traps of Religion

[Anonymous]

Thanks for posting this Poppy. I remember this talk because I loved, loved, loved it.

Very courageous for him to warn people even with good intentions, you can get off track with too much of one thing.

This one is the most interesting on the list:

Poppyseed wrote:

–Misapplication of love and tolerance

He says:

Quote:

Love and tolerance are incomplete unless they are accompanied by a concern for truth and a commitment to the unity that God has commanded of his servants.

Carried to an undisciplined excess, love and tolerance can produce indifference to truth and justice and opposition to unity. What makes mankind free from death and sin is not merely love but love accompanied by truth.

“Undisciplined excess” – this is a good clarification. I think of this when I think of parents trying to be their kids “buddies” or the youth leader trying to be one of the youth instead of leader of the youth. We should accept others for who they are…but stand firm on our beliefs of what we know will help them for greater joy and happiness in the long run.

All things can be done in excess and then become distorted. Good thoughts…thanks poppyseed.

[Anonymous]

Thanks Heber. My dad used to call it “being so straight you’re crooked.”

And I love the scriptures Oaks uses to make his points. like “They desire to know the truth in part, but not all” (D&C 49:2) and “loved the wages of unrighteousness” (2 Pet. 2:15) and “Why should I desire more than to perform the work to which I have been called?” (Alma 29:6).

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