The LDS Church should...

[_Bret Ripley]

You're suggesting that there's no benefit to art. Or at the least, that there'd be no benefit to 'art missions.' Am I correct?

Are you serious, Shades?

Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?

[_zeezrom]

Correction: The church and its critics seem to be playing tug-o-war...

[Guest]

...teach free art classes.

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[_Dr. Shades]

You're suggesting that there's no benefit to art. Or at the least, that there'd be no benefit to 'art missions.' Am I correct?

Are you serious, Shades?

Oh, of course there is and would be a benefit. It would simply not be a "needed" benefit that's superior to feeding the poor, as zeezrom believes.

Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?

??? Please explain.

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

I think the LDS church has a good business model. It's clearly successful. It should continue doing what it does because it's filling a particular niche for its consumers.

- Dr. Cam

[_lulu]

Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?

??? Please explain.

Its a paraphrase from Ebenezer Scrooge in Dickens "Christmas Carol."

What do you think, are workhouses and prisons enough? Or do humans need some holly and ivy with a song too?

I don't think anyone here suggesting not housing, feeding, clothing and providing health care to the poor. But does the good society need more, even for those who can't afford it?

Scrooge came to think that some joie de vivre is a basic human need also.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYHmQT_7a2c

[_sock puppet]

I think the LDS church has a good business model. It's clearly successful. It should continue doing what it does because it's filling a particular niche for its consumers.

- Dr. Cam

Yes, and if people, including members, approach it that way rather than pass it off as the only gateway to some eternal reward, and stop forcing the kids of Mormon parents into it, then LDS Inc serves a nice niche for its consumers, as you note.

[_Darth J]

The LDS Church should...

...have a gritty reboot, like Batman or Battlestar Galactica.

[_Morley]

The LDS Church should...

...have a gritty reboot, like Batman or Battlestar Galactica.

My pick for Joseph Smith.

[_sock puppet]

The LDS Church should...

...have a gritty reboot, like Batman or Battlestar Galactica.

My pick for Joseph Smith.

Damn, Morley. Christopher Walken? That would make it hard not to rejoin.