What are the dangers of mocking?

Thomas R. Valletta

The attitude of mocking can be contagious and distracting even to some members of the Church. Elder Neal A. Maxwell said: “A few members of the Church … [abandon] an oasis to search for water in the desert. Some of these few will doubtless become critics, and they will be welcomed into the ‘great and spacious building.’ Henceforth, however, so far as their theological accommodations are concerned, they are in a spacious but third-rate hotel. All dressed up, as the Book of Mormon says, ‘exceedingly fine’ (1 Ne 8:27), they have no place to go” (“The Book of Mormon: A Great Answer to ‘the Great Question,’” 11).

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