Scottie wrote:I love how Tal puts it. The first thing he asks is, "If I could prove to you that the LDS church weren't true, would you even want to know?"
For most TBM's, the answer is no. The amount of pain and anguish it would cause would be too much for them.
I think someone on MAD had a list of quotes. One good one was, "Everyone wants to share their religion with you, but refuses to let you talk about yours." or something like that.
To find a truly open minded person in this world is, well, needles and haystacks come to mind.
Worldviews are very strange and delicate things. I've lost all goodness that I once had in the eyes of some, simply because the path my steps took either skirted the edge of their worldviews, or walked out of it altogether.
I have avoided (which has been an olympic feat, I tell you) getting into depths about why I left the church with some of my LDS friends. They just won't be able to handle what I have to say. There's one I'm just moving away from altogether, because he acts like I'm a ticking sin bomb or something...and what's strange is that my denomination changed (if we have to stick to labels), not who I am as a person. But still, for his sake, I avoid taking him to the local LDS bookstore, pulling a book or two off the shelf, and asking him to explain without his testimony what it is that I present to him.
Three scenarios:
1. This person is uninspired (but he's quoting scripture...and he wasn't the only one).
2. You're interpreting this the wrong way (common route, the one Juliann took).
3. I don't know (the most dangerous scenario, because that's when people's worldviews shut down).