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The blind leading the blind?

 
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Leif Erlingsson
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PostPosted: Sat, 2005 Aug 27 18:08:30    Post subject: The blind leading the blind? Reply with quote

The blind leading the blind?

A Picture Says More Than a 1000 Words.

Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:40:56 -0500
One of my Latter-day Saint friends sent me these pictures with the subject line "Pictures say a thousand words".

Fri, 26 Aug 2005 23:49:47 +0200 (MEST)
I replied with this CNN snippet and the words: "Exactly. View brief attached CNN footage."
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PostPosted: Sat, 2005 Aug 27 18:19:15    Post subject: In case loading the pictures takes too long time Reply with quote

In case loading the pictures takes too long time, here's the text I wrote at the end of http://life.lege.net/picturesays/: ``The blind leading the blind?
The Latter-day Saints are led by a "prophet" who have expressed his personal support for this war. And the support for the war among the LDS have been far greater than among the general US population, at least 70% in Utah. Hence "The blind leading the blind?" above. In the LDS Church I see the morally blind leading the morally blind -- indeed, I see the LDS Church making many of it's followers unable to take an independent moral stand. Too late and too few of the Latter-day Saints are now finally waking up, but most Latter-day Saints are still in denial -- like the sending of the above images illustrate -- and like their "prophet", Gordon B. Hinckley, when he expressed his personal support for the Iraq war in order to defend home and country (those were of course propaganda lies by the war hawks) in front of the whole Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was of course quite the diplomat about it, but most of the Latter-day Saints understood him to support the Iraq war, and this perception has never been corrected. Whereas when another LDS leader was interpreted to criticize the war, this was very soon corrected by the LDS Church.

The "follow the leader" message pounded at the Latter-day Saints in combination with moral blindness in "the leaders" makes Latter-day Saints especially vulnerable to moral blindness. As stated, to pass around imagery like the above is of course a denial-reaction. It's like suggesting that a serial killer is a great guy because he is passing out candy-bars to the neighborhood kids between kills. And as you can see in the brief "CNN footage" above, there is no shame in the killing, but pride. It feels good to kill, what a rush! ("... that was awesome, let's do it again!") The clean-cut all-American young guy gives killing the wounded a friendly face.''
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