As my life is, I learn by asking the right questions. If I ask how does a tree grow, and someone responds, "by watering it". And I leave it at that, then its my own fault for not asking more, or looking more into it. I don't blame the responder for my ignorance. But alas, that is what Russ and his partners do. Says Russ, "If someone who is LDS does not explain in every detail how I was born I will hold them accountable for my ignorance. And their religion is Gnostic, because Gnosticism was seen by many back in the day as bad, and there was some element of secrecy, or hidden knowledge, and LDS are Gnostic because they believe things that I don't know about or understand. And as long as I say that people will know I think they are heretics because we're taught in church all gnostics and all their ideas were inspired by the devil. They must have been because that's what my pastor said. <quietly to himself>
I don't know how to think for myself. I hope someone holds my hand and leads me in the right direction.