Re: [AML] A Combat Zone?

Oh, I think lately this forum has presented many examples of the kind of
low ad-hominem rhetoric that I abhor. Rasband held back a post I sent
that really took the bait (and I'm guessing maybe from others too), for
which I'm glad.

There are heaps of dangling arguments from recent and aging threads for
which I might still, someday, make counterpoint - if I can just find a
way of arguing tactfully! :) (let alone the time to write those
arguments between other things) I hope it's fair to make one general
comment which has been sticking out in my mind for a while: President
Kimball's call for the rise in glory of Mormon art included a suggestion
that it be purified by the best critics - not the most bitter ;)

But I think the list is a combat zone. Not by design but by human
nature. Please note that I include myself in this comment. My
thinking: Kimball also had the burden of informing the church that it
remained under condemnation, as it was declared in D&C, for not taking
the Book of Mormon seriously enough; and I surmise that we may see the
glory and blessings of Zion, including the arts, wildly proliferate when
that condemnation is formally lifted (which it hasn't been), or in other
words, the glory of Zion will rise in accordance with the degree to
which we take that book and its teachings seriously - for example, to
not judge a brother, lest you be in danger of the judgment.

Alex Hall


C Bezas wrote:
> Hey, this seemed an interesting comment which I couldn't quite figure
> out. Things haven't seem that different with any current conversations
> than with past ones which also stimulated a lot of conversation one side
> or the other of an issue?
>
> Warmly,
>
> Cindy