Nelson’s “don’t rehearse with other unbelievers” talk
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2021 8:20 pm
If one talk rustled (Russelled?) the most feathers this conference, based on my social media groups the prize goes to Russell M. Nelson’s Sunday morning address.
You know, the one in which he encourages members to “choose to believe” and discourages doubters from “rehearsing” their doubts with other doubters. Such a sad setback when it comes to fostering intimacy among family and friends, in essence explicitly telling faithful members with questions not to discuss doubts with fellow questioning members. It’s Doubt Your Doubts 2.0: Doubt Your Doubters.
In it, Nelson opens with a well-worded logical assertion. He says, with reference to our individual losses and loneliness during the recent pandemic year:
I wonder if Nelson considered some of the other ways that the 99.8% of non-Mormon people found to make 2020 net out to positive? Perhaps that train of thought may have provided more helpful content for his speech, rather than what he went with — his transparently harmful directive designed to eliminate safe spaces for questioning members to share and validate one another. Ironically, such a directive seems awfully darn un-Christlike.
You know, the one in which he encourages members to “choose to believe” and discourages doubters from “rehearsing” their doubts with other doubters. Such a sad setback when it comes to fostering intimacy among family and friends, in essence explicitly telling faithful members with questions not to discuss doubts with fellow questioning members. It’s Doubt Your Doubts 2.0: Doubt Your Doubters.
In it, Nelson opens with a well-worded logical assertion. He says, with reference to our individual losses and loneliness during the recent pandemic year:
What a bold statement! Since asserting the antecedent is logically fallacious, it cannot be said that “if the past year was not in vain, then you have responded to your trials with stronger discipleship.” LOL“Russell M. Nelson” wrote: If you have responded to your trials with a stronger discipleship, this past year will not have been in vain.
I wonder if Nelson considered some of the other ways that the 99.8% of non-Mormon people found to make 2020 net out to positive? Perhaps that train of thought may have provided more helpful content for his speech, rather than what he went with — his transparently harmful directive designed to eliminate safe spaces for questioning members to share and validate one another. Ironically, such a directive seems awfully darn un-Christlike.