Hey Stupid! Keep it Dumb It Will Please the Lord

[_Philo Sofee]

I found this on John Gee's site. Do people actually accept this? Really?! If this were true, then God, the being who knows everything, would be the most unspiritual thing in the universe wouldn't he?? Do leaders think before they type or talk?

From Russell M. Nelson, "Protect the Spiritual Power Line" (October 1984):

"Learning can be misused! A sharp mind, misdirected, can cut into that line of spiritual power. Some 'learned' souls delight in leading others astray, all in the so-called name of learning. Years later their victims may realize that they have climbed their ladder of learning, only to find it leaning against the wrong wall."

[_DrW]

As stated before elsewhere on this board: it is very difficult, to near impossible, for the LDS Church to reasonably defend against claims of being anti-science and anti-intellectual when its leaders made statements such as this.

[_sock puppet]

How to decipher Russell M. Nelson and correctly understand it

"Learning can be 'Revelation' is misused! A sharp mind, misdirected, can cut into that line of spiritual power rational thought. Some 'learned' souls charlatans delight in leading others astray, all in the so-called name of learning 'God'. Years later their victims may realize that they have climbed their ladder of learning stairway to heaven, only to find it leaning against the wrong wall there is no heaven."

[_RockSlider]

"Learning can be misused! A sharp mind, misdirected, can cut into that line of spiritual power. Some 'learned' souls delight in leading others astray, all in the so-called name of learning. Years later their victims may realize that they have climbed their ladder of learning, only to find it leaning against the wrong wall."

Kind of like "Mormon Codex" leaning against the wrong wall, and Meldrum leaning against the right wall. See how true Nelson's statement is!