A co-worker asked me last year “how can someone as intelligent as you not be a ‘progressive’?” I refrained from responding “because I’m intelligent enough to not be one.”
The same reasoning may apply to your question.
(No, I’m not judging Mormonism either way, just commenting on the nature of such questions.)
I have a client who is a big lib and it's been sort of fun to watch him try to massage his lib vs conservative narrative to fit me.
First he excused me by saying well I guess you want your bookkeeper to be conservative....then later he excused me by postualting that people basically just vote the way they were raised to vote by their parents. He was pretty satisfied with that one until I informed him that I was raised a big lib.
When I told him that you really have to look into the facts behind the cultural myths we are taught at collge, he whined that he didn't have enough time to do all that research.
I have an anwser for every dumb lib myth he flings at me, and I think that unnerves him. He can't just say that I'm stupid because I've proven otherwise and he likes me. He's really quite smart and I think that eventually he'll come around.
“A co-worker asked me last year “how can someone as intelligent as you not be a ‘progressive’?” I refrained from responding “because I’m intelligent enough to not be one.”
The same reasoning may apply to your question.
(No, I’m not judging Mormonism either way, just commenting on the nature of such questions.)”
I remember our neighbors growing up saying to my parents: “I can’t believe you have such a wonderful family, but you don’t go to church.”
Same thing.