This from a recent addition to Mormon Scholars Testify - David Peterson.
Daniel Peterson’s request to contribute to “Mormon Scholars Testify” has weighed on me for several months, and as I now prepare for a new Church assignment in Brussels, Belgium, as diplomatic representative to the European Union, it seems an appropriate time to comply with his kind invitation.
What is the role for the Mormon diplomatic representative to the European Union?
'Church pictures are not always accurate' (The Nehor May 4th 2011)
Morality is doing what is right, regardless of what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, regardless of what is right.
If I had to guess, it's to facilitate the Church being recognized by the various local governments so we can continue to do missionary work and build churches and temples there.
bcspace wrote:If I had to guess, it's to facilitate the Church being recognized by the various local governments so we can continue to do missionary work and build churches and temples there.
I bet that's it.
Parley P. Pratt wrote:We must lie to support brother Joseph, it is our duty to do so.
bcspace wrote:If I had to guess, it's to facilitate the Church being recognized by the various local governments so we can continue to do missionary work and build churches and temples there.
Yeah I can see why that might be a possible answer, but wouldn't that be the Mission Presidents or Area Presidents or Seventy role?
'Church pictures are not always accurate' (The Nehor May 4th 2011)
Morality is doing what is right, regardless of what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, regardless of what is right.
If I had to guess, it's to facilitate the Church being recognized by the various local governments so we can continue to do missionary work and build churches and temples there.
Yeah I can see why that might be a possible answer, but wouldn't that be the Mission Presidents or Area Presidents or Seventy role?
Not as a continuous presence. Only when the big guns are needed.
Still, what does the word politics mean? Of course the Church gets involved in some political issues. Who can argue against that?
And when the confederates saw Jackson standing fearless as a stone wall the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.
That is a bizarre comment, jon--thank you for calling it to our attention. You really have to wonder why this guy thinks that joining the ranks of MST will boost his political reputation at this juncture in time, and why the decision to contribute "weighed" on him. I mean: if the site is totally benign and devoid of Mopologetic ulterior motive, then what would be the problem? Why would this "weigh" on him, unless he feared repercussions of some kind?
I'm just speculating here, but it's not hard to envision a scenario where he says, "Gee, I don't want to be involved in a project that is so tightly connected to the FARMS and FAIR Mopologists--I don't want my good name associated with those people." That alone, I think, would be enough for the decision to "weigh" on him. But then he brings in this business about his new Church assignment, which rather suggests that he was pressured by the "powers that be" to submit a testimony. Bearing all this in mind, I cannot help but wonder whether or not the whole thing--MST, I mean--was actually the brainchild of some Brethren-appointed PR person in the COB.
"[I]f, while hoping that everybody else will be honest and so forth, I can personally prosper through unethical and immoral acts without being detected and without risk, why should I not?." --Daniel Peterson, 6/4/14
bcspace wrote:If I had to guess, it's to facilitate the Church being recognized by the various local governments so we can continue to do missionary work and build churches and temples there.
I bet that's it.
Could also be of help in easing the European import cap on fry sauce.