The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced that its volunteers serving in Turkey have been temporarily reassigned, according to church spokesman Daniel Woodruff.
"Due to a prolonged period of heightened political tensions in Turkey, all of our volunteers serving in that country have been temporarily reassigned," the statement reads. "This includes 20 young men, four young women and five senior couples. They will be temporarily reassigned to other regions in Europe, Asia and North America. Additionally, four volunteers who are nearing the end of their service will return home. The safety of our volunteers is a primary concern for the church, and we work diligently to monitor conditions and make adjustments as needed in an effort to promote their safety."
Turkey, like Russia, is a country where LDS missionaries are referred to as volunteers.
Why can’t the Church call missionaries “missionaries” in Turkey?
Why announce a temple in Russia when missionaries cannot do missionary work nor can they be referred to as missionaries..?
“When we are confronted with evidence that challenges our deeply held beliefs we are more likely to reframe the evidence than we are to alter our beliefs. We simply invent new reasons, new justifications, new explanations. Sometimes we ignore the evidence altogether.” (Mathew Syed 'Black Box Thinking')
When the church is forced to shut down missions due to calamity or geopolitical events, you would think it would cause major cognitive dissonance to the missionaries who were called by god via revelation to minister to a specific set of people, and then not. But yet, thanks to the foresight of god, it was all just planned out to end that ways. Head god wins, tail god wins!!!! yea!
One of my sister in law's younger brothers spent the last several years of his life fascinated with Russia. He has learned russian, dedicated lots of time to studying russian culture yada yada, convinced he would get called as a missionary to russia. Well thanks to Putin's moratorium on LDS missionaries to Russia, he was called recently to Bolivia. Good luck kid. After reading Runtu's book..... I am convinced my mission of deprivation in Brazil was like a vacation on the beach compared to what you will experience in Bolivia.
It is better to be a warrior in a garden, than a gardener at war.
Some of us, on the other hand, actually prefer a religion that includes some type of correlation with reality. ~Bill Hamblin
SteelHead wrote:When the church is forced to shut down missions due to calamity or geopolitical events, you would think it would cause major cognitive dissonance to the missionaries who were called by god via revelation to minister to a specific set of people, and then not. But yet, thanks to the foresight of god, it was all just planned out to end that ways. Head god wins, tail god wins!!!! yea!
I hear people say things like this, where they imply that God as Latter-day Saints understand Him really leaves things to be desired, and I want to ask them if they think they would have done a better job of it if they had been God.
I have a question wrote:Why announce a temple in Russia when missionaries cannot do missionary work nor can they be referred to as missionaries..?
Did the LDS Church have any missionaries at all in Eastern Germany, when it put a temple up there?
The LDS Church constructs temples where there are a lot of Latter-day Saints to use them, regardless of whether it has missionaries there or volunteers, or anything at all.
SteelHead wrote:When the church is forced to shut down missions due to calamity or geopolitical events, you would think it would cause major cognitive dissonance to the missionaries who were called by god via revelation to minister to a specific set of people, and then not. But yet, thanks to the foresight of god, it was all just planned out to end that ways. Head god wins, tail god wins!!!! yea!
I hear people say things like this, where they imply that God as Latter-day Saints understand Him really leaves things to be desired, and I want to ask them if they think they would have done a better job of it if they had been God.
Yes. If anyone were as smart as God supposedly is, they could have done a better job. Either Mormon god is not there or not answering. He should be able to predict what will happen in the future if he knows everything and everyone's thoughts. He should have told his leaders about Turkey prior to letting the leaders tell the missionaries that they were inspired to call the missionaries to Turkey only to have the missionaries leave abruptly.
Maybe the Mormon god is an adolescent? This may be the answer to why god does what he does. The Bible says he is jealous and petty if not followed. Maybe he is having a tantrum and won't answer his people due to some slight? Nelson, falsely claimed that the banning of children of LGTB persons for baptism was inspired when it clearly wasn't. Perhaps the adolescent Mormon god is angry and refuses to communicate to his leaders due to Nelson's blunder?
"Religion is about providing human community in the guise of solving problems that don’t exist or failing to solve problems that do and seeking to reconcile these contradictions and conceal the failures in bogus explanations otherwise known as theology." - Kishkumen
KevinSim wrote:I hear people say things like this, where they imply that God as Latter-day Saints understand Him really leaves things to be desired, and I want to ask them if they think they would have done a better job of it if they had been God.
Yes. If anyone were as smart as God supposedly is, they could have done a better job.
Then, Exiled, what' stopping you? If you think you can do a better job, why don't you step in and take over and do the better job?
KevinSim wrote:I hear people say things like this, where they imply that God as Latter-day Saints understand Him really leaves things to be desired, and I want to ask them if they think they would have done a better job of it if they had been God.
Yes. If anyone were as smart as God supposedly is, they could have done a better job.
KevinSim wrote:Then, Exiled, what' stopping you? If you think you can do a better job, why don't you step in and take over and do the better job?
What job does your make-believe deity called “God” do, that you think Exiled couldn’t do at least as well?
“When we are confronted with evidence that challenges our deeply held beliefs we are more likely to reframe the evidence than we are to alter our beliefs. We simply invent new reasons, new justifications, new explanations. Sometimes we ignore the evidence altogether.” (Mathew Syed 'Black Box Thinking')
KevinSim wrote:Then, Exiled, what' stopping you? If you think you can do a better job, why don't you step in and take over and do the better job?
Once I can read everyone's mind, and know everything as supposedly your god does, I will certainly jump at the chance.
"Religion is about providing human community in the guise of solving problems that don’t exist or failing to solve problems that do and seeking to reconcile these contradictions and conceal the failures in bogus explanations otherwise known as theology." - Kishkumen