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Originally Posted by BYU71
I think you have to look at the context in which the word was used. If I wasn't a believing member, I would thing the word "cling" as used by the brethern is a request for members to be "dependent". Dependent on the Lord is one thing, dependent on others I am not a big fan of.
If you said, '71 clings to old ideas, I wouldn't take it as a compliment.
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Clinging to the rod isn't being dependent on the rod. It is meant just as it sounds. Clinging to religious beliefs isn't being dependent on those beliefs, it is holding fast to them. You are reading into his comment what you want to hear.