04-16-2007, 02:14 PM | #31 | |
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Are the motivations of the "antis" really as malevolent as most in the Church would have us believe?
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Obviously, the Tanners are great examples of people up to no good. Why somebody is whacko probably falls within the realm of unknowable. Reading the intentions of a person's heart it impossible.
However, if the design is to harm the Church, then that attitude, as manifested by publications or spoken word reveal one to be antithetical to the aims and purposes of the Church. All of us have met at least one, somebody who has almost no interest save to critisize the Church. I regard "anti" as somebody "antithethical" to the aims and purposes of the Church. Now, there can be varying degrees of antitheticism, such as the Tanners, or somebody who got exed and tells his friends and neighbors negative stuff.
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I'm unfamiliar with that reference. As the only LDS member in a school of 700 in the heart of the Bible belt (Chattanooga, TN), I got to experience plenty of truly anti-Mormon abuse.
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Are you referring to his standard for obscenity? The one that basically says, "I can't define it, but when I see it I know it."?
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In a US Supreme Court, Potter Stewart wrote a snippet he later regretted writing when trying to describe pornography, stating, "I know it when I see it." Fortunately, the Supreme Court did not rely upon that standard.
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