The Salt Lake Tribune asked readers how faith — or lack of it — affected trust with their neighbors. Here’s what you told us.
This story is part of The Salt Lake Tribune’s ongoing commitment to identify solutions to Utah’s biggest challenges through the work of the Innovation Lab.And nonmembers, would you quit “Mormon-bashing” online and making assumptions about those who practice the faith?
And Doug DeVore, who lives in Layton, said both “good” and “bad” people are just as likely to be Latter-day Saints as not. Others said that they felt greater trust with members of their faith not because of differences of religion, but because church membership and activities simply create greater bonds of trust within the flock. Eden Gillespie of Bountiful said she naturally spends more time with other members through church-related functions.
Orem resident Scott Stringham wrote that he would loan a tool or give a cup of sugar to any neighbor who asked, “but I would not trust that an average LDS neighbor could come over without judging me and/or turning it into a proselytizing opportunity.” Respondents in both groups acknowledged that the relationship dynamics between members and nonmembers can get complicated.
According to Eboo Patel, founder of the Chicago-based Interfaith Youth Core, for people of different beliefs to trust one another, they must interact in settings where religion is present but conversion isn’t the goal.
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