Mercury wrote:I am friends with one of the projects Managers. At a recent banquet dinner to mark a ten year anniversary I chatted with him. It was scary to see his rationale. Yes its overbudget several times. Yes its a giant money hole. The scary thing about the rationale was that "the brethren" know what they are doing as far as he is concerned. If I was involved with building a hotel/condo/shopping center (of which I have been involved in such projects) I would have sold off my interest LOOOONG ago and called it a loss, citing mismanagement.
Scary, yes. Unusual, no. When God's your co-pilot, and your followers believe God's your co-pilot, there's no fear you are leading in the wrong direction. Co-pilot God will never allow you to go astray. Unless, of course, you're just speaking as a man, but no one knows that until decades after you die.
And your friend's kind of blindness will never change. Never. Meanwhile, the homeless are still cold and hungry, the widowed are still unable to pay rent, the sick are still dying for want of treatment.
Yeah, someone tell me again how this church is run by leaders who listen to God.
(Nevo, Jan 23) And the Melchizedek Priesthood may not have been restored until the summer of 1830, several months after the organization of the Church.