Anti-Mormon from a Mormon perspective?

Jeff Ricks asked: ``Has anyone ever been given a good explanation of what [anti-Mormon] means from a Mormon perspective?''

Short reply: No.

Though I think you put the finger on it real well with your text.

Maybe an anti-Mormon is simply someone who's priorities has shifted from "Love Truth" to rational truth. From living to please others to living authentically. From being loyal to the community to being loyal to oneself and truth. From hypocrisy to honesty. From prioritizing the feelings of others to prioritizing truth and honesty.

From the perspective of the believing an anti-Mormon might be anyone who doesn't put the Mormon agenda before all other moral considerations, and who also discuss this with others? I don't know.


Perhaps the following reply previously posted in Curt Allred's new forum might give some inspiration (and Hi Jeff, long time no see...):


Dear Grace,

what you point out is something very important -- THE JOY OF LIVING AUTHENTICALLY. I almost feel a little bad for having posted the following lines in Curt Allred's new forum:

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What's relevent to some isn't to others. [That was quoting another member of the forum.]

I feel this is a very important observation. For some people -- at least for some of the time -- truth, rationality, etc, is very important. At other times -- or for other people -- other values are more important. Like LOVE. There is nothing greater than love. Life is complex. We need to keep loved ones together. Families, communities, etc. There is an eternal struggle between different loyalties, loyalties to truth, to family, community, etc.

In fact, this may be the key to why people manage to break off from LDS Inc.. If someone misuse their loyalty and they feel betrayed ("offended", as the TBM's say), THEN they (well, I) will eventually (it took it's time!) start to use reason and search for truth, use rationality, etc.

Do you see that the TBM's may actually be right when they say that noone leaves the Church unless "offended"? Because it takes a feeling of being betrayed to make one's priorities shift enough towards the loyalty to truth, rationality, etc? To actually choose truth before "community with the Saints"?

So, what d'yall say about this hypotheses of mine?

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In a later post I wrote:

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the same person can have different priorities at different times in his/her life between rational truth and love truth...

(I PROMISE, I did NOT intend to write that last word of the last sentence, but it just naturally fitted it and there was no way I could not write it even though this was not my intention. Must have been "demonic revelation". )

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Now I want to go back to what Grace pointed out about the need to be LIVING AUTHENTICALLY. If we keep denying ourselfs for "love truth" and this makes us not live authentically, that's hardly healthy, right?

Just my 2 1/2 c.


/ Leif Erlingsson, Tullinge, Stockholm, Sweden, Europe.