Finger of scorn

“We see a few around us who simply can't stand to be separated from the ‘politically correct’ multitudes in the great and pacious building. These multitudes are ‘in the attitude of mocking and pointing their fingers towards those who had come at and were partaking of the fruit’ (1 Nephi 8:26-27). The ‘finger of scorn’ has its own way of separating the faithful from those who have little or no faith (see 1 Nephi 8:33). Like Lehi, the faithful in our time will endure the pointing fingers of scorn from the world and ‘[heed] them not,’ even when the ironical fact is that some of those pointing fingers of scorn once grasped the iron rod.”

(Neal A. Maxwell: Lord, Increase Our Faith, p. 99.)