A photo in the June 2012 LDS Church News, illustrating an article about serving in the Primary, the Mormon children’s program, showed a young Salt Lake City girl sitting on the lap of an adult woman. The girl was wearing a sundress with wide straps.
When the same photo was republished recently on the official LDS website, however, the girl’s dress now had a white T-shirt under it.
I didn't read Orwell's 1984 when I was in high school, but knew roughly what it was about.
Then, almost immediately after I left the church (coincidentally) I got a copy for my kindle and read it.
I was struck by the parallels between the book and the LDS approach to history: Change the past to suit the present. Modify, erase, invent. Alter the representation of reality to suit the requirements of our shared delusion.
eschew obfuscation
"I'll let you believers in on a little secret: not only is the LDS church not really true, it's obviously not true." -Sethbag
~Those who benefit from the status quo always attribute inequities to the choices of the underdog.~Ann Crittenden ~The Goddess is not separate from the world-She is the world and all things in it.~
More importantly look at the little boy on the far right of the photo. Don't tell me that kid isn't thinking unclean thoughts about candy and raising taxes on the rich.
Whatever appears to be against the Book of Mormon is going to be overturned at some time in the future. So we can be pretty open minded.-charity 3/7/07
MASH quotes I peeked in the back [of the Bible] Frank, the Devil did it. I avoid church religiously. This isn't one of my sermons, I expect you to listen.
The little girl had a wardrobe malfunction, that's all. You know, she suffered a brief "shoulder slip", but it was fixed in post, so no worries.
Mormonism ceased being a compelling topic for me when I finally came to terms with its transformation from a personality cult into a combination of a real estate company, a SuperPac, and Westboro Baptist Church. - Kishkumen
Don't they realize that the 2nd amendment guarantees the right to bare arms?
I understand the original photo appeared in the Deseret News, but was altered later to help encourage proper dress standards for future garment wearers.
I think the problem is that some people are so pharasiacal that they must not be given the slightest opportunity to justify themselves. Thankfully, we don't have to go so far as to give Jesus a missionary haircut. Now that I've given you an idea, I'd like to see a picture of that by one of you artists pronto.
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