why do people thing that serious scholarship will damage testimonies?
why is it the closer we get to the truth, some say, the less likely we are to believe?
Instead of calling Bushman "faithless", I call his critics faithless.
If we have serious discussion/scholarship on blacks and the priesthood at BYU--it will cause students to lose their testimonies?
or is it more likely that they struggle on their own, never get any information, and lose their testimonies when they eventually encounter "anti" information on their own?
I understand milk before meat. But a meatless life is intellectually dishonest. For the flagship educational institution of the church to be meatless is a shame.
There are a lot of things that could be done, that have little to do with "meat" that would improve religious education at BYU. One idea I had was to require every student to read a diary of a Utah pioneer/settler. Students should come away with an understanding of their LDS cultural heritage. Right now, I would argue they don't.
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