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Old 08-03-2007, 03:47 PM   #30
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Originally Posted by Tex View Post
There is no mixed message. They are, as I said, leaving intellectualism to the intellectuals. The administration of colleges and universities indicates that the church greatly values higher education and scholarship.

The difference is, that scholarship is no longer mixed with ecclesiastical preaching.
And, as I said, LDS leaders used to be the intellectuals. That, to me, is a change . . . a mixed message, if you will.

Not to mention the way some LDS use intellectual arguments when they're convenient, and then discard them for the non-quantifiable "emotion" argument when they're not.
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