One area in which I differ with DCP is his veneration of General Robert E. Lee. In this, I believe he is mistaken. I recommend people read this short article, at the very least.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/the-myth-of-the-kindly-general-lee/529038/
DCP Decries "Mormon" Neo-Nazis
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Re: DCP Decries "Mormon" Neo-Nazis
"Petition wasn’t meant to start a witch hunt as I’ve said 6000 times." ~ Hanna Seariac, LDS apologist
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Kishkumen wrote:I would go way beyond the clear implications of DCP's post to state that a Neo-Nazi or white supremacist is an apostate and should be excommunicated from the LDS Church, unless he or she repents and repudiates white supremacism and Neo-Nazism.
Exactly! Hopefully next Sunday Bishops read a FP letter condemning racism, and the alt-right.
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Re: DCP Decries "Mormon" Neo-Nazis
Kishkumen wrote:One area in which I differ with DCP is his veneration of General Robert E. Lee. In this, I believe he is mistaken. I recommend people read this short article, at the very least.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/the-myth-of-the-kindly-general-lee/529038/
Great article.
I confess to it not being fully registered with me that, at its core, the Civil War was a fight over slavery.
“When we are confronted with evidence that challenges our deeply held beliefs we are more likely to reframe the evidence than we are to alter our beliefs. We simply invent new reasons, new justifications, new explanations. Sometimes we ignore the evidence altogether.” (Mathew Syed 'Black Box Thinking')