It is time for all to stand up for the family. You women whose husbands no longer believe, and you men whose wives no longer believe, should never threaten them with divorce or loss of your love and companionship. This is contrary to the stated purpose of the LDS church: to unite families. We implore you to never let differences of opinion regarding matters of LDS theology and faith divide your home. To do so is a sin, and will affect your standing in the eyes of the church. We believe that the Lord taught that loving others is the great commandment, and that the pain caused to good men, women, and children when families are destroyed over matters of personal conscience is a legacy of shame that the leaders of this church must now beg forgiveness for. We know that tithing revenues would be greater if the threat of familial shunning hung over member's heads at all times, but the price for this mammon is simply too high. Love your wives and husbands, who are people with real feelings, as much as or more than you love the LDS church, which is a tax-exempt religious organization with no feelings and toward which there can be no moral obligation. Thank you my dear brothers and sisters.
From, "The Family: A Sacred Trust." General Conference October 2014 Not
My thoughts, in order: Dang, that sounds Christ like! Oh. There's the money thing - can't ignore the real focus. Typical. Wait, what's the date on that? Oh my, I just got punked by an expert!
Why would a "tax-exempt religious organization with no feelings and toward which there can be no moral obligation" need a prophet, seer, revelator? It would need a CEO/CFO. And the bottom line concern is tithing and not the condition of the family or even the spiritual well being of the member or non-member.
Translation-be nice to your non-believing spouse so we can get more tithing for the balance sheets. Malls won't build themselves.
On the mall subject...God told JS to build the Nauvoo hotel and other things. Where is the revelation About the new mall. I would like to see it.
Could Terrible Tommy be admitting the sham???
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"... when families are destroyed over matters of personal conscience is a legacy of shame that the leaders of this church must now beg forgiveness for..."
Cults never admit they are wrong, let alone "beg forgiveness." That's when my eyebrow rose high, Spock-like. Cults stop preaching certain things, a form of self-serving benign neglect, and hope it's conveniently forgotten or overlooked, such as the doctrine of eternal progression.
But actually repent of a false doctrine or wrong practice? "Beg forgiveness?" Nawww!
Hahahah like this would ever happen. Look at the date of the "quote". We should re-post it so often that the church has to disavow it!!!!! Then they could explain why they DIDNT say it!
That was a wonderful hoax, a masterpiece of the satirical art.
I started to doubt my doubts when I read "beg for forgiveness," and then when "tithing revenues" were mentioned, I knew it had to be fake. They NEVER mention tithing revenues, only the blessings of paying tithing.
Somehow I skimmed over the October 2014 part, I guess I assumed it was October 2013.
"We believe that the Lord taught that loving others is the great commandment, and that the pain caused to good men, women, and children when families are destroyed over matters of personal conscience is a legacy of shame that the leaders of this church must now beg forgiveness for."
Damned right. Like when my mother's bishop in 1975 encouraged her to leave and divorce my inactive dad, since "clearly he's never going to be the strong priesthood holder in your home that's needed."
Now just get him to *actually* admit it...:)
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I didn't get through the OP first line before calling it a spoof.
Kinda curious how the seasoned exmo brain is simply unable to connect logical, sensible, loving, Christ-like attitudes and actions with .... with .... who? .... Moron Church Leadership.
Brethren, we've got you all dialed in. If any of you EVER do anything even remotely similar to what would Jesus do in the same situation, we'll Dial-911 immediately and get medical attention for you for the stroke or aneurysm that just went off in your cranium ... causing you to ACTUALLY DO what Jesus would do.
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"We know that tithing revenues would be greater if the threat of familial shunning hung over member's heads at all times" - WTF does this mean? REvenue is NEVER far from his mind is it?
Our Fab15 isn't even CAPABLE of thinking those kinds of thoughts.
Ya know ... the kinds of thoughts where SOMEONE ELSE'S well-being - other than your own - actually comes up in your psyche for actual pondering and consideration.
Sorry to anyone who thought it was real and that it would help them in their struggle to be accepted and loved by TBM family. I mean that.
I know how healing it would be if he really said those things. I wrote it because of my own struggles.
If this church were true, it would not cause so much pain in families.
And even if we forget questions of truth, if this church cared as much about people as it does about growth and power and revenue, it would have made that statement long ago.
It's amazing that it hasn't. In my heart I still hope that the leaders of the LDS are at least good people, but this exact question is the hardest evidence to reconcile with that hope.
The church actively contributes to the destruction of many otherwise-good families. Destroys them. Ruins lives. Hurts men, women, and children. And its leadership knows very well that it does it.
Yet it does NOTHING of substance to stop the carnage. How is this possible? The silence here is DEAFENING.
If evil exists, and has anything to do with causing pain and suffering, then the LDS church is truly, deeply evil.
Maybe the people who are assigned to read the writings of the satanic RFMers will steal some of this and send it off to monson's writers. I'm being overly optimistic this evening.
I was thinking it might be real until I got to the part about leaders of the church needing to beg for forgiveness. We know it will be a cold day in hell with a bunch of pigs flying around when that happens.
Remember when we had a rule that a person had to put "parody" or "humor" in the subject line about stuff like this? Because while posts like this have an important teaching message, it's annoying to start reading something that's just a work of fiction, a misrepresentation of what the subject line implies it is. We should go back to warning people - especially those of us with limited time to only read the most important stuff.