109: The Slippery Slope of Self Justification

Latter Day Struggles

Valerie Hamaker

Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Religion

4.4 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Send us a Positive Review! In this episode Valerie reviews some fascinating ideas about the relationship between cognitive dissonance and self justification and applies these ideas to humanity, institutions, churches, and the LDS church. She walks you through the following ideas: why humans and institutions self justifywhy people in leadership are especially prone to self justificationwhy entire communities get caught up in self justifying behaviorsthe self-justifying tactics people and insti...

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0:00.0	Hi, Latter Day struggles, friends and fans.
0:03.1	We know that navigating a faith crisis can feel overwhelming, especially when it impacts our closest relationships, our parents, our partners, and our kids.
0:13.2	That's why Valerie has created two online self-paced classes to help.
0:17.3	The first is a couple's guide to faith crisis and expansion.
0:20.7	This class is here for a partner
0:21.9	or couple who want to navigate faith shifts with mutual respect and deeper connection. Next is
0:26.8	a family's guide to mixed faith parenting. This class offers tools to help parents develop
0:30.7	greater harmony and understanding when belief differences arise within our families. Both classes are
0:35.7	packed with helpful tools and perspectives that can
0:37.9	give you hope and a way forward. So if you're looking for a little guidance on this,
0:41.6	visit laddarday struggles.com to learn more. And now let's start the show.
1:03.8	Hello, everyone. Welcome to Latter Day Struggles. This is your host, Valerie, and I am here today on my own,
1:15.7	and I have a bit of a daunting task before me. I am going to do my very best to, one hour or less describe what I personally consider to be a fairly complex principle, but I want to do this so much because I recently read this book
1:22.9	and it so closely applies to so many of the things that we hear in the Church of Jesus Christ
1:29.2	of Latter-day Saints are wrestling with that I kind of put it aside. I'm like, no, no, no,
1:34.7	I have so many other good things planned and my programming is all set up. And anyhow, but I
1:40.8	couldn't get this out of my mind. And so here I am. So let's just see how we do. The book that I want to review with you and apply to Christianity at large and humanity at large, but also I think that once I get going, you're going to see some applications right out of the gate about how this certainly applies to us, especially in light of
2:04.7	the recent SEC investigation and findings. And also really, it's something that we as a church
2:12.3	sort of have a historical, you know, longstanding struggles with. If you want to jump over to episode 98 of this
2:20.8	podcast, Latter Day struggles, you can find my analysis of and a lot of my thoughts and feelings
2:27.2	about the challenge of honesty and my feelings about the SEC findings. So that is sort of, this is sort of a little bit of a follow-up to
2:37.3	that, but I'm also going to broaden it. And you'll see all sorts of applications. The book that I,
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