In Alma 14 Alma and Amulek are placed in prison for their beliefs by the ruling priests and politicians. They face a kangaroo court trial and are smitten. The whole group of leaders gathers around them and says a phrase that chilled me when I was younger: “How shall we look when we are damned”? It seem almost gleeful in the idea that individuals would be damned.

Then John Dehlin and Kate Kelly were excommunicated and I read a host of Pro-LDS blogs and sites that seemed to twitter with the same feeling of gleeful damning.

And now I ask the TBM crowd, How shall John and Kate look when they are damned?

This is just a handful of the loving, “Christ-like” approaches for someone who started as very much a believer, asked tough questions, and eventually determined the truth is not in the organization. So now all the LDS people can chitter on Sundays about how gleefully they are not as stupid as anyone who listened to Dehlin; as they discuss “How shall we look now that we are saved?”