I really liked what Elder Oaks had to say about this subject. People may think he is over-reacting and that the Church is over-reacting; one thing to remember is that the leaders of the LDS Church are not just talking about current effects. They are also talking about long-term effects that science will never be able to prove until something happens.
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"[Confucius] taught that the country which develops the finest music, the grandest poetry, and the noblest moral ideals--that is, the country with the most exalted culture--will always yield the greatest power in the world."
-Letters from the Jade Dragon Box by Gale Sears
"Who is such a reprobate as I! And yet it seems that even I am in Somebody's hand!'
-Mr. Henchard in The Mayor of Casterbridge
"...[T]he magnitude of [life] is not as to [one's] external displacements, but as to [one's] subjective experiences."
-Thomas Hardy in Tess of the d'Urbervilles
"...I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed--because 'Thou mayest.'"
-Lee in East of Eden
-Letters from the Jade Dragon Box by Gale Sears
"Who is such a reprobate as I! And yet it seems that even I am in Somebody's hand!'
-Mr. Henchard in The Mayor of Casterbridge
"...[T]he magnitude of [life] is not as to [one's] external displacements, but as to [one's] subjective experiences."
-Thomas Hardy in Tess of the d'Urbervilles
"...I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed--because 'Thou mayest.'"
-Lee in East of Eden
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I like this post. Way to go, Dave.
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