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Defending the Church: How to Recognize Divisive People and What to Do About Them

Nearly everyone has experienced division. We personally learn the effects of such even in high school. When a classmate on a random day decides on a whim to negatively regard a fellow student, he or she might gossip about a person, and try to   poison the well , for example, in making such a person seem unappealing or unreputable in whatever issue is being discussed.   Poisoning the well   is the idea that before   person B   even gets a chance to examine certain information on his or her own,   person A   seeks to distort  person B’s   understanding by pointing out things that might either be true or false in order for   person B   to immediately have the perspective that   person A   has. For instance, I have recently been called an   anti-Mormon , which is a textbook example of poisoning the well. What this does is when a Mormon calls another person anti-Mormon, he is using this derogatory label to warn other Mormo...