Mercury wrote:Quoth the burnout: "No offense to the masses, but I think this is a biproduct of the church becoming larger and larger"
Very good. This does not imply I am speaking of the church population. I am speaking of mass media and the world society in general.
Actually, the church is growing in numbers, as far as I know (although not exponentially, and as far as World:Mormon goes every day the World gets larger and the church gets smaller), but regardless, why the backpedaling? If you want to speak of mass media and world society, maybe you shouldn't use the word "church" to do so, because there is certainly no obvious connection.
No backpedaling. In the eye of the world, the church is growing in presence. This is what I meant to begin with, and there is no backpedaling occuring.
You were either extremely unclear, purposefully obfuscating or are now backpedaling. Which of these three was it?
And crawling on the planet's face Some insects called the human race Lost in time And lost in space...and meaning
There is an interesting thread over at MAD on polygamy that seems to shed some light on this question. I've always been taught that polygamy was an eternal principle and we just don't practice it because its against the law but it will be practiced in eternity. This has been the party line for some time.
Yet Juliann, who probably considers herself a TBM, believes that since modern prophets have not spoken on the issue polygamy is not an eternal principle and will not be practiced in eternity. I'm seeing more people buy into her line of reasoning. As time goes by and more LDS by into this reasoning, start to preach it quietly, and then not so quietly, the brethren will probably have the stomach to do little more than ask them not to talk about it. Yet this will only stop people from preaching it in Church. Behind the scenes you'll probably see more and more of the private beliefs of the members change. If that is not a doctrinal shift, than what is?
And when the confederates saw Jackson standing fearless as a stone wall the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.