First RRR Meeting: Inoculation Theory and Cognitive Dissonance

So, it's only taken me a week to get around to posting something about our first Rough Stone Rolling meeting, but I wanted to put something up for those who couldn't attend and possibly get some virtual conversation going.

Since the details are all starting to get a little fuzzy, I'll just quickly mention two topics we spent some good time on (both of which were actually somewhat tangential to the reading, but made decent material for an introductory meeting on this book):

1) Inoculation theory. Should Latter-day Saints be exposed to a less sanitized version of church history so that when they encounter it, it doesn't "shake their foundations"? There are some good posts about this at various Mormon blogs; I suspect Matt could point us towards the most worthy.

**Update 6/18: I was right; Matt did have some good suggestions on this topic:

"Here's an interesting inoculation conversation with reference to the Mormons documentary, at probably the biggest deal Mormon blog out there. Here is one I wrote, speculating that in fact Mormon apologetics is forcing changes in Mormon theology. And here's a nice bullet point type discussion."

2) Dealing with cognitive dissonance. How do you personally do this, especially with regard to church history and doctrine?

Please feel free to follow up on these questions in the comments section of this post, and to post your own observations or pose questions to the group via new posts.

And keep reading! Schedule is at the bottom of this post and in the sidebar.