Simon Belmont wrote:Thexriddle wrote:I've not really been part of the LDS Church for a couple of decades.
Yet you feel qualified to comment negatively on it?
Let's try this out in other contexts
"I've not really been in prison for a couple of decades."
Yet you feel qualified to comment negatively on it?
"I've not really had malaria for a couple of decades."
Yet you feel qualified to comment negatively on it?
"I've not really had my teeth pulled out without anesthetic for a couple of decades"
Yet you feel qualified to comment negatively on it?
(Of course, if prison, malaria, painful dental extraction or the CoJCoLDS have changed their essential nature as experiences in recent decades, the question might be a reasonable one. But is it claimed that the CoJCoLDS has changed in some major feature of doctrine or practice to the extent that experience a couple of decades ago is no longer relevant?)