Posted by:
erictheex
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Date: December 16, 2013 08:03PM
After I listened to Radio West's podcast, I realized what a big score that is against LDS legal control over the state of Utah. It seems like every skeleton has been dug up and it is being placed on the lawn of every chapel around the world.
What a victory for fundamentalist: BY is admittedly uninspired and polygamy is legal, and the FLDS are leaving the Jeffs' cult in droves...and he is in jail, forever. Mormons cant keep polygamists from embarrasing them anymore.
What a victorious year for gays! Folks cant be excomminucated for being or supporting gays.
What a great time to leave that cult, so many resources, social acceptance, support, information...
The racism, the polygamy, the doctrinal changes, Joseph's "little" secrets, the financial shenanigans, general authorities leaving or/and admitting mistakes...are all being brought up publicly. Most significant, they admitted, indirectly, that their prophets do not guarantee to speak for God or with any inspiration at all, so there is no point on follwing them.
But it is not just that. Donations are running low, all while they expand into expensive countries. Domestic membership (the money maker) is dwindling. The fantasy that they are the true church because they are growing so fast is running low on fuel: money. They make another ill fated decision and buy large amounts of real estate that cannot be immediately turned into residential/commercial development.
Faithful members are publicly questioning doctrine. From women wearing pants to openly gay LDS folks.
Their long awaited presidential candidate lost because of his inability to deal with reality... and he lost as he was exposed as being far from christ's teachings...we saw under the skin of a poster mormon, and we saw a bit of class warfare, racism, dishonesty and quite simply, idiocy.
It seems like every effort is turning in a disaster: more missionaries, dirty chapels, prop 8, stupid mopology essays, doctrinal statements and everyone of the solutions just drives more people away.
Their "savvy" media effort for the mormon moment has been a disaster, a waste of money at best, and embarrassing fiasco at worse (see Holland's now classic Dodo moment).
Not surprisingly, the spokesman for the church refuses to make ANY statements or to address ANY issue. For a long time he looked like a silent figurehead, now he is beginning to look like a mascot. I half expect him to blurt a catch phrase and take pictures with children in front of the COB or to be run out to the field during BYU football games.
All off this was unthinkable 10 years ago.
It all makes me wonder who the hell is running things. Its clear that it is not God nor Monson, so who is making these epic blunders?
Whoever they are, I commend them, I could not think of a more harmful sequence of events and decisions to expose the LDS corporation.
Cheers to the dodo's downtown and may 2014 bring even more hastening!
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 12/16/2013 11:24PM by erictheex.