What is the correct balance between deification of leaders, healthy respect and

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Originally Posted by RockyBalboa

You still haven't answered the question.

Feel free anytime,,unless of course you want to provide the usual "I refuse to answer a question who's premise I reject....blah, blah, blah...bullshit, yackety yak,,,"

Why are you ALWAYS negative towards the church, the culture, etc...etc..etc?

I mean you're pretty much negative with just about everything anyway,,,the question still exists.

I reject the question because it assumes a fact not in evidence. Negative about the Church?

Are you stating in my posts here or in my life? In my life, I have spent a mission, a temple marriage, a lifetime rearing four children active in the Church so that they might be worthy and studious enough to matriculate as undergraduates at BYU. What's negative about that?

Am I negative in the efforts of a few, not most, leaders to restrict the efforts of legitimate scholars to research whatever topic that pleases them? Perhaps you might see my wish for greater academic and artistic freedom as a pejorative expression, but I do not. I see it as an expression to improve BYU and its students. I want our people to be innoculated against the illness arising from a lack of knowledge. The illness of ignorance. In my own life, I struggle to unravel my own ignorance to add learning and knowledge well beyond my formal training. Is this negative toward Church? I thought the rubric about BYU, a subsidiary of the Church, "The World is our Campus, enter to learn, go forth" to earn? little joke there.

Your narrow articulation of what is and what is not permissible is not one I share. But I do respect your right to a narrow view, I just won't take that path.

I do not see negativity, only a healthy expression of ideas. As John Stuart Mill argued, we should allow Truth and Error to grapple before us so that we can see if Truth is stronger and can overcome Error. I am not afraid of Truth, for it strengthens my faith.

Now anwer my positive question which you avoided.