Runtu wrote:Most of this is pretty harmless, but sometimes I’m surprised at what people can and do profess as “doctrine.” Take, for instance, the “tent-city” folks I’ve talked about before. These people are publicly preaching prophecies that, according to church doctrine, they have no right to receive. Similarly, the Bo Gritz/John Birch Society crowd has loudly proclaimed that the international communist conspiracy is taught in the Book of Mormon.
You hit a note with me here, Runtu:
What those "in the know" say about None Dare Call It Conspiracy (By Gary Allen, 1971):
"I wish that every citizen of every country in the free world and every slave behind the Iron Curtain might read this book"
Ezra Taft Benson
Former Secretary of Agriculture
I recall my right wing Mormon Bircher buds talking about how the church would kick some Red butt when Ezra T. became the prophet. They were the guys I used to target shoot with - you know, the ones that
actually had a
two year supply (that was official doctrine, BC - did you have one?).
Boy, were they disappointed when he spent much of his tenure ill and unable to speak - a conspiracy, of course.
They didn't think much of his lefty spokesman, Hinkley.