This is just a musing of mine.
Mormons/Mormonism declare a desire to obtain further light and knowledge. But it seems to me that’s misleading. What they appear to want is restricted to further confirmation or support for what they already want to believe is true. Increased light and knowledge that undermines, refutes, disproves, or reduces plausibility of what they already want to believe is true, is to be rejected out of hand and never accepted.
They don’t want to learn, they simply want to reinforce.
Further Light & Knowledge
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Further Light & Knowledge
“When we are confronted with evidence that challenges our deeply held beliefs we are more likely to reframe the evidence than we are to alter our beliefs. We simply invent new reasons, new justifications, new explanations. Sometimes we ignore the evidence altogether.” (Mathew Syed 'Black Box Thinking')
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Re: Further Light & Knowledge
"Further light and knowledge" is on indefinite delay in Mormonism. You get to believe you'll get it when you die.
Re: Further Light & Knowledge
As an educated guess, I'd say that the term was taken from Freemasonry, which extensively uses the symbolism of "light" and speaks of increasing the initiate's knowledge.