"Cult of the Prophet". I like that. It sums up the modern church very well. The latest example was the televised birthday party for TSM.
What is strange is that if one follows the teaching of the LDS church one can have a nice moral life fulled with empathy and love for neighbor. Nothing that the LDS church teaches creates an evil, selfish, self-centered person. But in this world of ours it is the 'good' that suffers.
Nothing self-centered about the arrogance of hypocrisy? Nothing evil about persecuting the just? Nothing selfish about seeking all the gain and prominence and degrees and businesses and riches of the world while you refuse to come unto Christ and be born of him and refuse to teach your children to become sanctified and trample the Holy One of Israel under foot as you dash madly after the things of this world?
Blixa wrote:You're not part of the Great Holladay Apostasy are you, Craig? There seems to be an unusual number of exmo's produced by my old neighborhood...
Nope...evidently there are many pockets of apostasy along the wasatch front
"...The official doctrine of the LDS Church is a Global Flood" - BCSpace
"...What many people call sin is not sin." - Joseph Smith
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away" - Phillip K. Dick
“The meaning of life is that it ends" - Franz Kafka
Blixa wrote:You're not part of the Great Holladay Apostasy are you, Craig? There seems to be an unusual number of exmo's produced by my old neighborhood...
Nope...evidently there are many pockets of apostasy along the wasatch front
Ah, too bad. I guess Nightlion's my only homie on this board.
From the Ernest L. Wilkinson Diaries: "ELW dreams he's spattered w/ grease. Hundreds steal his greasy pants."
Craig Paxton wrote:The lost 18...is a result of a very serious problem in the church, it fails to meet the needs of a majority of its membership and as a result...it is losing its best and brightest
Do you know where any of these 18 stand in terms of their current beliefs. Hearing how their spiritual odyssey evolved over the course of many years seems fascinating stuff to me - especially if it is no longer than one page each.
Blixa wrote:You're not part of the Great Holladay Apostasy are you, Craig? There seems to be an unusual number of exmo's produced by my old neighborhood...
Blixa, do you know any of the specific reasons these Holladay folks discontinued their former status? Could these reasons be put into any categories that would support or dispel the common notions of why people leave? I am hoping that exhaust settling down from Wasatch Drive played no role in people staying or leaving.
Blixa wrote:You're not part of the Great Holladay Apostasy are you, Craig? There seems to be an unusual number of exmo's produced by my old neighborhood...
Blixa, do you know any of the specific reasons these Holladay folks discontinued their former status? Could these reasons be put into any categories that would support or dispel the common notions of why people leave? I am hoping that exhaust settling down from Wasatch Drive played no role in people staying or leaving.
Lol. I don't know. Back in my early foray into online ex/Mormonism, a.k.a. posting at RfM, it was remarkable how many of us went to the same grade school. "Something in the water," was floated as a theory, with Skyline High School's notoriously leaky gym roof as the method of delivery. The degrees of separation between Mormonism and me/anything I'm reading, looking at, interested in, seem to run into negative numbers.
I'm trying to pull it all together now, as I meditate on my own "Mormon identity." I have a powerful fondness for many Mormon things, powerful enough to make my criticism of those things unfond all the more harsh.
From the Ernest L. Wilkinson Diaries: "ELW dreams he's spattered w/ grease. Hundreds steal his greasy pants."
Blixa wrote: Ah, too bad. I guess Nightlion's my only homie on this board.
Hello homie. :)
Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction -Pope Benedict XVI
