http://www.mormondialogue.org/topic/56375-rated-r/
One of the reasons I am disaffected (well this kind of thinking and my rational finally caught up and overwhelmed my faith). Mormons have become the worst type of legalistic pharisees: see two earring apostasy ;)
"How can we know if teachings, which have not been voted upon, are true?[...] We, ourselves, are ‘moved by the Holy Ghost,’ then we know that the speakers are teaching true doctrine. In a way, this completely shifts the responsibility from them to us to determine when they so speak.”
J. Reuben Clark, Jr., “When are the Writings or Sermons of
Church Leaders Entitled to the Claim of Scripture?” speech given at
BYU, July 7, 1954, published in the Church News, July 31, 1954;
reprinted in Dialogue, 12:2, p. 68–69.
All semblance of common sense went out the window with the 14 points drek.
Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible
Ye blind guides,.... As in Matthew 23:16.
who strain at a gnat and swallow a camel: the Syriac and Persic versions read the words in the plural number, gnats and camels. The Jews had a law, which forbid them the eating of any creeping thing,
Leviticus 11:41 and of this they were strictly observant, and would not be guilty of the breach of it for ever so much,
"One that eats a flea, or a gnat; they say (p) is "an apostate";