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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
Hinckley seems to imply that if you don't believe the church can be wrong when it's leaders take a stand on something, then the church is a fraud. So if you don't think the church is a fraud, you must join it when it makes political stands.
I will agree that loyalty is a great virtue. But history tells us that loyalty to some causes is unwarranted. See the Holocaust as an extreme example. Or the loyalty to the Japanese Emperor as God on Earth, leading to unspeakable carnage.
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I think loyalty is most often borne of fear rather than love, especially in fascist regimes.
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