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Why doesn't LDS inc believe this?
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 11:11 pm
by _zzyzx
Be unafraid of new ideas for they are the stepping stones to progress. But you will respect, of course, the opinions of others [but be unafraid to dissent if you are informed.]… Now I mention the freedom to express your thoughts, but I caution you that your thoughts and expressions must meet competition in the marketplace of thought, and in that competition truth must emerge triumphant. Only error needs to fear freedom of expression. Seek truth in all fields, and in that searching you’re going to need at least three virtues: courage, zest, and modesty. The ancients put that thought in [the] form of [a] prayer. They said, “From the cowardice that shrinks from new truth, from the laziness that is content with half truth, from the arrogance that thinks it has all the truth—O God of truth, deliver us.”
— Hugh B. Brown, Man and What He May Become, 29 March 1958
Re: Why doesn't LDS inc believe this?
Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 3:30 am
by _The Nehor
Because corporations as entities can't have beliefs.
Neither can Churches for that matter.
Re: Why doesn't LDS inc believe this?
Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 5:33 am
by _moksha
The Nehor wrote:Because corporations as entities can't have beliefs.
Neither can Churches for that matter.
Are you speaking of the Church buildings or the organizations?
When you say corporations can't have beliefs are you referring to beliefs that interfere with
maximizing profits or to having no guiding principles or scrupples whatsoever?
Re: Why doesn't LDS inc believe this?
Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 4:40 pm
by _The Nehor
moksha wrote:The Nehor wrote:Because corporations as entities can't have beliefs.
Neither can Churches for that matter.
Are you speaking of the Church buildings or the organizations?
When you say corporations can't have beliefs are you referring to beliefs that interfere with
maximizing profits or to having no guiding principles or scrupples whatsoever?
Neither.
Re: Why doesn't LDS inc believe this?
Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 5:57 pm
by _bcspace
Be unafraid of new ideas for they are the stepping stones to progress. But you will respect, of course, the opinions of others [but be unafraid to dissent if you are informed.]…
These are enshrined within existing LDS doctrines.
Now I mention the freedom to express your thoughts, but I caution you that your thoughts and expressions must meet competition in the marketplace of thought, and in that competition truth must emerge triumphant. Only error needs to fear freedom of expression. Seek truth in all fields, and in that searching you’re going to need at least three virtues: courage, zest, and modesty. The ancients put that thought in [the] form of [a] prayer. They said, “From the cowardice that shrinks from new truth, from the laziness that is content with half truth, from the arrogance that thinks it has all the truth—O God of truth, deliver us.”
Amen. So?