Any time that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints attempts to obtain or maintain converts with its trademark doctrine that “families can be together forever,” we should be aware and remember that this seemingly marvelous news comes with a dark and depressing implication – that families can be separated forever as well.  Both things must be true in order for either one to be true, but we rarely find The Church focusing on the latter, and last I checked we never find them teaching it explicitly to its curious investigators.  We would do well to wonder whether any organization which habitually accentuates the positive truth and eliminates the negative truth that goes with it is really trying to spread the truth at all or whether it is simply trying to sell us something like everyone and everything else.