With life's parables, hyperbole not needed
Orson Scott Card
That's why the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had to send out a letter debunking something that someone once said, trying to make the youths of the church feel good about themselves. The intent was probably good.
And the original speaker of it probably said something fairly mild. But it grew and grew, until it became doctrinally false — no, ludicrous — and it was attributed, not to the original speaker, but to various general authorities.
What began as hyperbole very quickly became a lie.
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