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Jana Riess, a communicant Latter-day Saint who (for want of a more precise description; you’ll have at least some sense of what I mean) leans leftward and with whom, on several issues, I disagree, apparently receives comments from believing Latter-day Saints that she sometimes perceives as “nasty.”
http://janariess.religionnews.com/2015/06/02/mormon-nastygrams-and-the-abomination-of-homosexuality/
I regret this.
Our “communications” as Latter-day Saints — both in the modern sense and in the old King James sense — should be Christlike, should manifest our discipleship.
However, lest it seem that “nasty” communications are somehow uniquely or characteristically coming from my fellow “conservative” believing Mormons, I just want to state for the record that they emphatically do not.
I know this from personal experience. Lots and lots and lots of it. And then some.
From personal emails, slanderous discussions about me online, and so forth. Monthly, weekly, daily. Reams of them.
The example that Sister Riess supplies is downright courteous and charitable, by comparison.
Just for the record.
Posted from Darmstadt, Germany
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