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When will they speak out against the Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, Africans and so many others who discriminate against White People in their own countries? Maybe they can have revelation and condemn the French for their attitude against USA citizens, while they are at it? The Japanese have treated t...

Given the prevalence of the disease around the world, they should not be putting missionaries on airplanes and moving them around. In particular, they should not be sending anyone to Africa. WHO is sweating bullets over the prospect of COVID-19 spreading like wildfire through countries that are jus...

toon wrote:In other words, when will the Church jump on the panic bandwagon?

I think the key here is to listen to the experts at the CDC and WHO and avoid getting advice from politicians and cable news commentators.

https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/coronavirus-update-february-27-2020 Missionary Work All missionaries, regardless of where they are serving, have been reminded to follow basic preventative health practices to avoid illness. It is important to note that young missionaries are not gen...

consiglieri wrote:Brilliant analysis!

One gets the idea the point is not to designate what is doctrine so much as to designate what is not doctrine.

Without ever actually designating what is and isn't doctrine.

Sounds like a new topic for the Radio Free Mormon Podcast!

I believe that President Newsroom is the one who established how to define doctrines of the church. He stated it years before Elder Anderson did. https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/approaching-mormon-doctrine 4 May 2007 - Salt Lake City Not every statement made by a Church leader, past...

The Second Manifesto given by Joseph F. Smith in General Conference April 6, 1904 is still in effect: Inasmuch as there are numerous reports in circulation that plural marriages have been entered into, contrary to the official declaration of President Woodruff of September 24, 1890, commonly called ...

2.3 billion up to 2019 - 2.2 billion up to 2018 = 100 million 2019 spending That is assuming that 2.3 billion means exactly 2,300,000,000 and 2.2 billion means 2,200,000,000. When you subtract two large numbers that only have 2 significant digits it potentially introduces a very large error into th...

The LDS church could save them from this. But they'd rather buy more real estate. The church has been quietly buying up Boy Scout lands during the past year. On sale. Not a bad strategy. Pull support for the Boy Scouts and then when they go under buy up their assets at fire sale prices. Sounds like...

Anyone been to one of these conferences, or know of anyone who has? My TBM wife wants me to go. She already has tickets. I really don't want to spend my Saturday next week listening to excuses for why it was OK for Joseph Smith to do all of the things he did. But she is going even if I don't. That c...