Redefined wrote:It makes ya wonder how dear ol' gr8gr8gr8gr8gma Fannie Lou (in my case, ggggms Jennie, Sue, Sallie, Mary, and Lizzie) would have ever bought into it! Especially back with things like polygamy. . . of course, back in that day, women were used to being in a subjugated role anyway, so the church probably wasn't such the mind-eff.
Those women in your lineage had obviously not been redefined.
Ya, I was just thinking of how proud I must be making them! ;P Rather, I'm sure they are rolling in their graves!
If I could change one thing, it would be to make it honest. I'd rather have an honest church than a true one.
I've wondered what would happen if the church did something similar to the COC? I don't know that I could go back even then, given that I personally would need this level of honesty to extend out to the further reaching questions that underly christianity and human religion in general. But a Mormon version of the UU? Interesting thought.
The world is always full of the sound of waves..but who knows the heart of the sea, a hundred feet down? Who knows it's depth? ~ Eiji Yoshikawa
Jason Bourne wrote:Only One? Oh so many to choose from....
Ok, and no I am not saying this to score browny points with all the wonderful women here, many of whom I highly admire.
Give women the priesthood.
How 'bout eliminate the notion of priesthood as an authoritative chain altogether? While that starts to get very far afield from what makes the LDS church "Mormon", the idea that the priesthood is something that is confired from one human to another as ritual without attendant rites is very sterile.
The world is always full of the sound of waves..but who knows the heart of the sea, a hundred feet down? Who knows it's depth? ~ Eiji Yoshikawa
It would simply be to open the vaults and let the truth be known. Put Joe Smith's magic rocks on display... show us the KEP and the pagan papyrus that was the mothership of Mormon doctrine from the pagan book of the dead. Show us all the secret stuff that the Mormon church hides from its members.
2 Tim 4:3 For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. 2 Tim 4:4 They will turn their ears away from the truth & turn aside to myths
My #1 choice would be: Do away with Home/Visiting teaching...it's all so much busy-work. It can all be accomplished by e-mail or phone call...when the person wanting help asks for it.
My #2 choice: Chop off an hour from the 3-hour block.
My #3 choice (and this one's impossible): Announce that one, super-righteous couple had gone through the temple...wait for it...for all mankind!!! Just like the sacrifice of Jesus covers everyone, so too, this one endowment session covers everybody. Isn't it wonderful? Isn't it marvelous?
"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." - Denis Diderot
Correlation would go bye-bye. It is one of the worst things that ever happened to Mormonism. Polygamy was perhaps worse, but Correlation ranks right up there.
Wouldn't fix everything, but would be very welcome.
From the Ernest L. Wilkinson Diaries: "ELW dreams he's spattered w/ grease. Hundreds steal his greasy pants."
