Wow. Bof M central already has a rebuttal up, but do they really think this helps?
We consider the Church to be the literal Kingdom of God on the earth in the latter days (Doctrine and Covenants 65). It is led by prophets and apostles who are accountable not to shareholders or voters but to Jesus Christ. The Church has a divine mandate to prepare the world for the second coming. Kingdoms by their very nature do things a little differently than democracies, commercial enterprises, or NGO’s. Transparency is an expectation in the Internet age, but kingdoms, like privately held companies, are seldom fully transparent. Centralized financial management on a global scale seems entirely appropriate for an organization that aspires to fulfill the prophecy in (Daniel 2:44).
https://bookofmormoncentral.org/blog/ch ... m-the-pews
This seems to be arguing that the lds church considers itself above the law. That’s a very problematic argument, in my opinion.
I wonder what SLC HQ thinks of “help” like this from apologists.
Last time an lds leader told me he had a ‘divine mandate’ that overruled my rights, it didn’t go well for him.