mercyngrace wrote:I read this on John's public Facebook page yesterday:
Fred W. Anson: John I was saddened to hear about the discipline you received from your Bishop. Very sad. 17 hours ago Like 6
Perhaps the church already has taken action.
John isn't being allowed to baptise his 8 year old son.
(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.
Ahh, thanks for the details Harmony. I should've figured that out given the next comment.
"In my more rebellious days I tried to doubt the existence of the sacred, but the universe kept dancing and life kept writing poetry across my life." ~ David N. Elkins, 1998, Beyond Religion, p. 81
I hope John does a podcast on it. The Church and the leaders who carried out it's bidding deserve the spotlight.
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.” Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
"One, two, three...let's go shopping!" Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator
Kishkumen wrote:Clearly this private event in John's life has no bearing on the present kerfuffle with the OMIDs.
I somehow have the impression that so far as the CoJCoLDS is concerned, the concept of 'private life' is absent.
Zadok: I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis. Maksutov: That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
harmony wrote:John isn't being allowed to baptise his 8 year old son.
Gotta love how the church disciplines wayward men by treating them like faithful women.
BAzinga!
"Others cannot endure their own littleness unless they can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level." ~ Ernest Becker "Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death." ~ Simone de Beauvoir
harmony wrote: John isn't being allowed to baptise his 8 year old son.
Gotta love how the church disciplines wayward men by treating them like faithful women.
Holy crap that was funny.
"We have taken up arms in defense of our liberty, our property, our wives, and our children; we are determined to preserve them, or die." - Captain Moroni - 'Address to the Inhabitants of Canada' 1775
MsJack wrote:Gotta love how the church disciplines wayward men by treating them like faithful women.
I am absolutely certain no one in high places ever thought of it this way.
(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.
