The Golden Age Of Temple Hyper-Expansion Concludes As God Hits The Snooze Button On Temple Announcements

[drumdude]

It’s an objectively unwieldy name. And John Pack Lambert was expressing his frustration with the shortened “LDS” being used.

I think LDS and Mormon are both perfectly appropriate. Pick your favorite if you think one is offensive.

[malkie]

Sounds like the Mormon Lord has truly hit the "pause" button on His promise that His gospel shall be as the stone cut out of the mountain without hands which would roll forth and fill the whole earth, as Daniel saw in vision (see Daniel 2:31–45; D&C 65:2).

Except that, for Mormons:

- fill does not mean fill, and
- the whole earth does not mean the whole earth

Only an idiosyncratic reading of "fill the whole earth" makes it "true".

[Bond]

After Nelson announced ~11000 Temples I'm guessing Oaks just wants to zag and put his own mark on history. No way he's going to be able to announce more temples so why try? Better to focus on a different facet in his short time as President. Bro already headed for 95.

[sock puppet]

Sounds like the Mormon Lord has truly hit the "pause" button on His promise that His gospel shall be as the stone cut out of the mountain without hands which would roll forth and fill the whole earth, as Daniel saw in vision (see Daniel 2:31–45; D&C 65:2).

Except that, for Mormons:

- fill does not mean fill, and
- the whole earth does not mean the whole earth

Only an idiosyncratic reading of "fill the whole earth" makes it "true".

My bad. I've been a FoMo so long, I've forgot how to speak Mormon.

[Doctor Steuss]

After Nelson announced ~11000 Temples I'm guessing Oaks just wants to zag and put his own mark on history. No way he's going to be able to announce more temples so why try? Better to focus on a different facet in his short time as President. Bro already headed for 95.

Oaks has a heckuva legacy opportunity to take the equivalent of the temple building craze funds, and redirecting them to humanitarian projects. Imagine, if the equivalent budget and volunteer hours of temples (building and operation) were put into humanitarian type buildings/projects.

100+ addiction recovery centers.
100+ subsidized healthcare facilities.
100+ foodbanks.
100+ subsidized job training facilities.
100+ affordable housing projects.

Tens of millions of lives lifted out of addiction, poverty, hunger, suffering, and homelessness. Not as sexy as a giant edifice to primarily do activities for the benefit of dead people, but it’d be an incredible Christ-like legacy to leave behind.

[sock puppet]

After Nelson announced ~11000 Temples I'm guessing Oaks just wants to zag and put his own mark on history. No way he's going to be able to announce more temples so why try? Better to focus on a different facet in his short time as President. Bro already headed for 95.

Oaks has a heckuva legacy opportunity to take the equivalent of the temple building craze funds, and redirecting them to humanitarian projects. Imagine, if the equivalent budget and volunteer hours of temples (building and operation) were put into humanitarian type buildings/projects.

100+ addiction recovery centers.
100+ subsidized healthcare facilities.
100+ foodbanks.
100+ subsidized job training facilities.
100+ affordable housing projects.

Tens of millions of lives lifted out of addiction, poverty, hunger, suffering, and homelessness. Not as sexy as a giant edifice to primarily do activities for the benefit of dead people, but it’d be an incredible Christ-like legacy to leave behind.

Wouldn't that be the Christian thing to do? Don't count on Oaks doing that.

[Rivendale]

After Nelson announced ~11000 Temples I'm guessing Oaks just wants to zag and put his own mark on history. No way he's going to be able to announce more temples so why try? Better to focus on a different facet in his short time as President. Bro already headed for 95.

Oaks has a heckuva legacy opportunity to take the equivalent of the temple building craze funds, and redirecting them to humanitarian projects. Imagine, if the equivalent budget and volunteer hours of temples (building and operation) were put into humanitarian type buildings/projects.

100+ addiction recovery centers.
100+ subsidized healthcare facilities.
100+ foodbanks.
100+ subsidized job training facilities.
100+ affordable housing projects.

Tens of millions of lives lifted out of addiction, poverty, hunger, suffering, and homelessness. Not as sexy as a giant edifice to primarily do activities for the benefit of dead people, but it’d be an incredible Christ-like legacy to leave behind.

Bednar has said repeatedly that they are not a humanitarian organization but a temple and covenant building religion. They feel fine ignoring the poor and downtrodden.

[Philo Sofee]

Oaks has a heckuva legacy opportunity to take the equivalent of the temple building craze funds, and redirecting them to humanitarian projects. Imagine, if the equivalent budget and volunteer hours of temples (building and operation) were put into humanitarian type buildings/projects.

100+ addiction recovery centers.
100+ subsidized healthcare facilities.
100+ foodbanks.
100+ subsidized job training facilities.
100+ affordable housing projects.

Tens of millions of lives lifted out of addiction, poverty, hunger, suffering, and homelessness. Not as sexy as a giant edifice to primarily do activities for the benefit of dead people, but it’d be an incredible Christ-like legacy to leave behind.

Bednar has said repeatedly that they are not a humanitarian organization but a temple and covenant building religion. They feel fine ignoring the poor and downtrodden.

Well, I mean, they're just tryin ta emulate Jesus dontcha know? We never read of him working with the poor and downtrodden. Hell he spent all his time in the temple and Herod's palace chumming with the big boys didn't he? Making sure they got their funds from Rome and all that. I'm sure that's part of the "missing scripture" that we don't have, so its legit.

[yellowstone123]

I will write what I wrote many years ago: the Mormons don't need more temples. They have land and can conduct their ceremonies outside, under the stars, at sunrise or sunset. This thought was reinforced the other day when I saw an image on social media of a Christian assembly outdoors in a beautiful hills-type rock formation. It almost looked like Southern Utah at sunset with numerous people watching the presentation. They were bundled up, so it was cold, but the assembly looked packed. For 19th-century Mormons, the sun, moon, and stars—creation—were really important, and they could emphasize that under the stars.

[Kishkumen]

A concise, 30-second clip from today’s General Conference has captured the attention of Reddit, featuring Elder Oaks advising members on the need for the church to slow down and pull in the reins concerning temple construction. The statement, which signals an abrupt shift in the pace of expansion, was immediately reinforced by Oak's declaration that there will be no new temple announcements:

https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comme ... ack_a_bit/

The timing is exquisitely delicious. Not even a week after Rusty's passing, the Lord apparently decided that the temple expansion needs to slow down. Call me cynical, but the immediate shift in God's priorities seems to suggest one of two things: either Jesus has a surprisingly short attention span, or Rusty was leading a massive, uninspired real estate boom.

Nelson seems to have wanted to outdo his two predecessors, especially Hinckley, who embarrassed Nelson on occasion. Now that Nelson is no longer around to keep up that competition, sanity will return on a couple of fronts: temple construction and hopefully the name Mormon.