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Date: October 25, 2010 02:13PM
The church loves to roll in it's pioneer heritage and to be honest, they did do a good job building something out of nothing and haw some nice old buildings to be proud of. The thing is they will always cling to this because they sure as heck haven't accomplished what Brigham Young did in modern times. Other than building a bunch of unwanted economy temples and redeveloping downtown Salt Lake, I can't thing of anything else big they have done. It sure as heck isn't as inspiring as a Manti or Salt Lake temple.
What's ironic is they want the old pioneer image but they want to push Brigham Young into the shadows along with his discourses. It's all about pulling a handcart now and making the members feel guilty that they aren't sacrificing more.