Danna wrote:Actually I was pretty gob-smacked.
The point is that BKP has managed to fit a fair bit of objectionable tripe into just one talk. Young people must have:
1. Blind obedience of, and uncritical adulation of the bretheren.
Of course he says that. He's one of the Brethren. It's a lot more difficult to run the church, if people actually put some thought into what the Brethren say, and then start thinking for themselves!
2. Intolerance of difference, and
3. No mercy for those who are different (because they are going to SUFFER for being different).
The only tolerance we allow is US...
OUR differences. We demanded that we be allowed to be
different and when the feds wouldn't allow it, we decided then and there that no one...
no one was ever going to be allowed to be different from what we thought was US again.
It's called PRIDE and we've got it in spades; the higher up the food chain a person is, the more pride they have. Those of us barely hanging onto the bottom rung don't have much, just enough to keep the leaders on the TOP of the food chain telling us to get rid of it.
Then, 4. young people must PAY UP. First and most importantly, FEED the BEAST.
Otherwise, our leaders would actually have to work, and we know how they feel about that.
I am just stunned that people listen to this and don't just get up and walk out. Then I wonder what sort of person BKP is, to not only think this, but to preach it.
He's been called a grizzly bear by those who know him best. Makes ya just think he's so warm and caring, doesn't it?
Finally, did they dismantle the PR department when GBH died, or what?
By the time a few years has passed, we will not recognize much of what Pres Hinckley left us.
(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.
