The author of this letter to the editor, responding to a letter saying that it was inappropriate to fly the flag at half-mast for a deceased BYU student (which I don't necessarily disagree with), has a good point. However, there's a line in it that I love!
Ooh! Pulling out the Scriptures Card! "Clearly, I am in the right because the scriptures agree with me. You are wrong, which means you don't read your scriptures enough." I just find the use of this argument laughable.
Another odd thing about the letter is the clarification that he did not mean the Savior by using the word "truth." I trust that somewhere, the Savior has been referred to as "the Truth," but I have never personally heard it. This clarification raises an interesting question, though: If he had meant the Truth, would it really be false? Are people not more important than the Truth? I'm guessing he means that they are less than or equal to the Truth. But which is it—less than or equal to? Is there a bar under the crocodile or not? Is the whole (the Savior) greater than the sum of its parts (the people He saved)? I guess if I read my scriptures enough, I'd know the answer!
After reading the Readers’ Forum from the author of “In mourning 9/8,” I looked up what was said and found it very interesting.
However, I also found the content disturbingly insensitive toward Vanessa’s family and friends (probably because I knew her).
It sprayed salt on their wounds as well as mine.
I’m not going to argue about whether you were right or not, because to my limited knowledge, you were right. But, you were definitely wrong in practice.
People are more important than truth (not to be confused with the name of the Savior as Truth).
If you study the scriptures enough, you will see this. Clearly, those in charge of BYU do.
Jonathan Kerby
Ooh! Pulling out the Scriptures Card! "Clearly, I am in the right because the scriptures agree with me. You are wrong, which means you don't read your scriptures enough." I just find the use of this argument laughable.
Another odd thing about the letter is the clarification that he did not mean the Savior by using the word "truth." I trust that somewhere, the Savior has been referred to as "the Truth," but I have never personally heard it. This clarification raises an interesting question, though: If he had meant the Truth, would it really be false? Are people not more important than the Truth? I'm guessing he means that they are less than or equal to the Truth. But which is it—less than or equal to? Is there a bar under the crocodile or not? Is the whole (the Savior) greater than the sum of its parts (the people He saved)? I guess if I read my scriptures enough, I'd know the answer!
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