ldsfaqs wrote:The point is, is that while yes there is "some" teaching of history, that's not the same as "teaching history" or having history classes in Church.
You expect us to teach ALL history, no matter if it's actually true or not.
What's worse is you want us to teach "your version" of history, as if it is the actual and true history, when it's not.
What "relevance" in a Sunday School class does teaching that Porter Rockwell a once body guard of Joseph Smith once attempted to kill Governor Boggs for his evil acts against the Church?
Please tell us how this "history" has any relevance to a Sunday School lesson, let alone any other number of useless facts, and let alone your false facts, or your facts used to lie?
As I said, the Church doesn't teach history, it teaches the Gospel of Christ.
It only quotes history as it relates to the Gospel of Christ.
Get a clue people!
When the church uses "facts" to present the LDS church and its "leaders" in a certain light (ie, they were the poor, downtrodden underdogs) it would matter VERY "much" to give the WHOLE "TRUTH" about the history of the church and their dealings with those around them.
LDS members are "taught" that Joseph Smith was arrested and put on trial time and again for "trumped up charges" and no good reason, just plain and simple bigotry.
When the "WHOLE TRUTH" is examined we find a different story. There actually were good, valid reasons for Joseph Smith to be arrested and put on trial. We find the the "Saints" were engaged in activities that were arrogant, subversive, illegal and destructive at times. Yep, that bothered the heck outta the neighbors.
In "fact," we discover that Joseph spent a lot of time running from the law because he was breakin' the law. Breakin' the law.