Three Brief Allusions to BYU’s Past, Followed by a Very Concise Implicit Admonition
Briefly, he tells us:
1. His mission President's wife's father decided not to send his daughter to BYU, lest she lose her testimony
2. In the 1980s a friend living in the house of a deceased famous BYU professor not noted for the fervor of his religious expression said "... at night, when everything is very quiet, you can hear his voice whispering ‘There is no God!’”
3. The BYU Faculty were not always devoted to the study of the Book of Mormon. Indeed "the Book of Mormon was long neglected in the Church and at BYU, and it hadn’t been all that long before my arrival in Provo that teachers at BYU were arguing that there simply wasn’t enough content in the Book of Mormon to keep a class going for even a semester, let alone a year." (Judging by the complete failure of Joseph Smith to use the Book of Mormon in public teaching, it would seem they were not alone in their sentiments - my note.)
He then says this:
Implicit Admonition
Elder Jeffrey R. Holland has famously observed that “this Church is always only one generation away from extinction,” and Brigham Young University is, or should be, an important bulwark against that horrifying, if for the Church as a whole (though, sadly, not for individuals and specific families) perhaps only theoretical, possibility.
I think that this is as far as DCP dares go in calling his employer to repentance for their apostasy in the matter of the Maxwell Institute and his expulsion therefrom. Will BYU notice?