I visited my family in Utah for Christmas this year. It's the first time I've been out for Christmas since 2010. My husband and I visited in 2012, but not for Christmas. During this trip, my sister planned a tour of the welfare facility run by the LDS church in Salt Lake City, called Welfare Square. The tour was interesting and educational. One thought that I had while on that tour stuck with me and I wanted to write about it. When I started saying things critical of the LDS church in a (semi-)public setting, one of the most common comments I heard from my Mormon friends was "You should say nice things about the church too, not just critical things." Logically, this is a silly notion. But it isn't a logical idea, it's a human idea. It's how we humans think. We have tunnel vision. We often feel a need to vilify anything that we see as different or threatening in any way. So, it is important to remember to include positiv...
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