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Mormonism and culture/Attitude toward non-members
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Criticism
Critics charge that LDS members are taught to look down upon or reject those who are not of their faith.
Source(s) of the Criticism
Response
One former member wrote that the Church
- "encourages its followers to ignore or depreciate the lives of all non-believers."
Only following his apostasy did this person
- "accept…that all others were as worthy as I am. So…I held myself aloof from the rest of mankind as a result of my Mormon conceit."
- quote
— Bob McCue, “The Downside of Mormonism's ‘We Are The Best’ Attitude” post at www.exmormong.org, 24 Oct 2004 10h29.
Conceit this is, but hardly "Mormon." (Indeed, the Book of Mormon condemns in the strongest terms those who adopt such an attitude: Alma 31:16-19, Alma 31:27-35).
Conclusion
A summary of the argument against the criticism.
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