Gordon Monson: 'It doesn’t have to be this way. Even though anger, suspicion, ridicule likely will never be extinguished, they can be diminished with understanding and compassion.'
Gordon Monson asks: Where in Latter-day Saint teachings does it say, ‘Wear your righteousness as a badge of honor, as a declaration of superiority’? It doesn’t. It shouldn’t.How do you treat your neighbor? Who is your neighbor?
Considering and giving heed to the above quote is key to being a “good Christian” — if that’s what you want to be. Elitism, especially mixed with worship, has that tendency, rallying the faithful with attitude around a special cause, a select group, separating the believing from the unbelieving, the chosen from the unchosen, the clean from the unclean. Wars have been fought over lines drawn around righteousness, tangling up people on both sides of those lines, over these kinds of differences, these kinds of divisions.
One of the more surprising elements of moving some 30 years ago to Utah, where Latter-day Saint influence is so much more evident than it is in other places I’ve lived — East Coast, West Coast and Europe — has been the community divide here. It doesn’t have to be this way. Even though anger, suspicion, ridicule likely will never be extinguished, they can be diminished with understanding and compassion.
It’s the amplification and glorification of being different and separate, of being special, of being chosen, zealously so.said, “The most peculiar thing about the Latter-day Saints — so it seems to our weak generation — is that its members have the courage to live up to their beliefs in the face of adverse practices. The Latter-day Saint rejoices in his larger and more complete knowledge and in the privilege of using this knowledge for his good. … Such courage makes of us a peculiar people.
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