From a speech by Margaret Thatcher:
When I asked one of my Commonwealth colleagues at this Conference why he kept saying that there was a “consensus” on a certain matter, another replied in a flash “consensus is the word you use when you can’t get agreement” !
To me consensus seems to be —the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no-one believes, but to which no-one objects. —the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead.
What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner “I stand for consensus”?
Source: Book of Mormon Concensus
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Brother Neville,
If consensus is not a great cause, then why do you keep writing about it and insisting that people who disagree with your views on Book of Mormon geography start “accepting the prophets” (as you understand them)?
A Google search on this domain turns up 214 separate pages that use the word “consensus.” A similar search on Book of Mormon Central’s domain turns up 132 results, only 67 of which include the word “geography.”
If anyone is obsessed with consensus, it appears to be you.
Kind regards,
Mike Parker
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