RememberingRyan
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I agree entirely. I was explaining the distorted perspective of a grieving family, not defending or justifying what they've said. In my personal opinion, the sites hosting obituaries should be as scrutinizing over the obits they are willing to publicize as they are of the "condolence" comments they filter - if an obituary of a murderer is hosted, they should be prepared to allow very explicit discourse to allow the community to demonstrate to those who wrote the obituary just how harmful their words are. If the host site is not willing to allow that discourse, they should not host boastful obituaries for those who have done things as hideous as slaughtering a family. I understand exactly where the minds of the family are right now because I watched families all around me excuse terrible things my entire childhood in an effort to reconcile the facts with their faith, and I know that they are suffering despite their twisted viewpoint. They are contributing to disinformation and that needs to be criticized and challenged. I only made that comment because these are human beings who have been conditioned from birth to behave exactly this way, it isn't something they are really "choosing". (editing to clarify very directly here that I am talking about the behavior or white-washing and sugar-coating and defending the "eternal family" even in the face of extreme circumstances like this being something that many members are conditioned to do. I am NOT in any way saying that the LDS church conditions anyone to be violent, abusive, or murderous)I appreciate that you are trying to be understanding...but I don't care what religion you are in. You DON'T have a right to be praised after murdering your children. If they are praising him then they are part of the problem.
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