"Lalala", "Lalala", "Lalala"

Some how this advice from 2007 just seems to be an uninspired bad idea.

https://www.lds.org/new-era/2007/07/qa-questions-and-answers?lang=eng

Basically, the answer to the question about reading anti-Mormon literature is as follows.

1. Read your scriptures (how about D&C 132?) instead of anti-Mormon literature.
2. Reading anti-Mormon literature is a waste of your time (but baptising dead people isn't.)
3. If you DO read it, quickly go find someone who actually knows what Mormon Doctrine and History in the proper context is and let them fix you.
4. IF you read it, read it with a context that LDS Inc. is right and those Satan-inspired antis are wrong.

It hasn't dawned upon the leaders of LDS Inc. that there may be a good reason former Mormons can't leave them alone and why there is a lot of anti-Mormon material out there for their young people to find out of context.

The reason is their LDS Inc. provides its members with no alternive views of their history outside an erroneous mythology and as such LDS Inc. cannot provide a better context for members to deal with loads of things like real Mormon history, LDS Inc.'s theological governance by policy instead of revelation, and their baptizing as quickly as possible to preserve new member ignorance of better context and non-existent continuing revelation.

Things like The Swedish Rescue aren't ever going away. And in advising Mormon youth to basically run from criticism of their "religion" is just going to eventually make them angry for encouraging ignorance in an information age.

I wonder when the dying off finally happens if newer LDS Inc. leaders are going to handle this one? The time when you can label everything critical out of context is over.

The First Vision isn't 3 visions. Nephi wasn't Moroni. Polygamy is still a principle in those scriptures.

Groan. They have very clever, subtle ways of saying, "Don't look, don't read, don't think! Just do what we programmed your gut to tell you to do!"

Reading this today I was overwhelmed at the nerve these people have in publishing this. It is basically telling their young people to avoid any Mormon information that doesn't promote a super spiritual high gloss "scripture study" approach.

Really? In 2007? Really?

From the Ensign article you linked: "too many of them are either misinformed about the Church or downright antagonistic toward it. This latter group is often all too willing to rely on deception and dishonesty to achieve their goals. The literature they produce often uses lies or half-truths;"

Wow! And yet, go ahead and never question the 15, in spite of the fact that they are doing just what you are saying to avoid.

redpillswallowed Wrote:
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> And yet, go ahead and never question the 15,
> in spite of the fact that they are doing just what
> you are saying to avoid.

Well that would be "evil speaking of The Lord's Anointed" and the adult author of this Q&A could never advocate that!!!