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Originally Posted by BYU71
If you read Cougarboard much you actually see how members will deal with it.
Some will accept the fact they have been fed some stuff that just really wasn't true. They will take it like they took Paul Dunn's book and move on. Those will be primarily members who don't hang on every word a general authority says and then run out and tell everyone they had better obey.
Then there will be those who will call it all lies and fabrications. They will start saying it is the "end of times" because the evil forces of Satan are gathering against us. They will hunker down and wonder why we can't make Utah a big Colorado City.
Sadly, there will be some that will feel they were deceived and lose their testimony. That is what I see is the problem of throwing out to the world we are more holy, more moral, more bright than everyone else and using BYU as evidence of such. People who don't take all that with a grain of salt can get disillusioned.
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This is correct. It isnt any different than anything else about the Church that has come out in the past. Life will go on.
All of this "we only have ourselves to blame" stuff is melodrama. It is true, but it is grossly overblown.