Here is a piece about various calls for Mormons to be less shrill and combative. http://www.mormontimes.com/mormon_voices/joel_campbell/?id=7083 . Although I think these are good pieces of advice, I feel like the whole context is being ignored.
I have wanted to see an end to Big Love ever since it started. It is a show that perpetuates tired and old stereotypes that need to die.
Secondly, what Sister Bushman seems to ignore is that people called for the bombing of temples in California, boycotts were successful in getting specific people fired, churches were vandalized and homes were vandalized. This is not acceptable response to political involvement.
Mormons may take objection to some things we should just ignore, but you have to remember that there was actual violence and vandalism.
Saturday, April 4, 2009
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There are definitely some good points in that article, but it does overlook certain situations. I'm trying to deal with a situation right now where the soft answers didn't do a bit of good, and things exploded into a mess of bad feelings all around. After years of putting up with increasingly critical and rude comments from my best friend of nearly a decade, things came to a head after she called the Prophet and Apostles arrogant, and heavily insinuated that they were crooks because we pay tithing, among other hostile things said. This was in addition to letting myself be influenced by her ways that took me farther and farther from the Spirit, instead of influencing her for the positive.
Frankly, after the harsh criticism of the church and the issue of my own spiritual state, I'm not sure the relationship is salvageable at all. I'm certainly not blameless in the situation, weaknesses in my own character led to a good part of it, but it's now to the point where I have to decide whether to led the friendship end and leave her with seriously negative feelings toward the church, or possibly continue to do damage toward my own spirituality by remaining friends with her. I've wondered repeatedly, especially over the last few years, if I needed to cut all ties with her as part of my repentence process, but she's also been a huge part of my life, and our friendship has had a positive influence on me in a lot of other ways. I love her to bits, but honestly, I don't like her very much these days.
Soft answers and thick skin don't always work, and sometimes, they can do more damage than good. Every situation is different, and we have to try to read them and respond accordingly. It's not an easy thing to do.
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