Roger Morrison wrote:Having watched Elizabeth Smart interviewed on inter-National TV recently, I was impressed by this young woman's candor, honesty and her sense of self. I saw none of the negative stuff that has been tossed about here...
Indicates to me that she has been nurtured in her home with the best of stuff. Thanks or no-thanks to her LDS heritage. IMSCO Elizabeth exemplified a real person who accepted her fate, applied wisdom to both its cause and effects, has healed and moved on wiser, dare I say, for her experience.
Thank "God" Elizabeth did not fight to her death. But lived to show there IS life after adversity. Her story is in direct contrast to the young woman in the story sited in the web-site a few days back. Who was conditioned by misuderstanding and ignorance--what ever its source...
While I do not believe Mormon theology, nor much of Christian mythology, I think the constant haranguing on the past teaching-stupids of LDSism, and Christianism, does little to move anyone ahead, nor to advance the cause of charitable human relations that will create a future better than the past; independent of religion...
Roger
*
*
Excellent post. I've also been very impressed with Elizabeth Smart, and with her family. Obviously they don't buy into any of these old teachings of coming home in a pine box with your virtue intact. Her family simply wanted her back alive, even if her "virtue" was not intact. LDS or not, they appear to be a very loving family.