As they shout on Family Feud, "Good answer!"

For completeness here's Oaks' statement as quoted in the SL Trib:

"I know that the history of the church is not to seek apologies
or to give them," Oaks said in an interview. "We sometimes look
back on issues and say, 'Maybe that was counterproductive for
what we wish to achieve,' but we look forward and not backward."

http://www.sltrib.com/lifestyle/faith/2108746-155/we-all-can-be-more-civil

Next Oaks quote, in the same SL Trib article is:

The church doesn't "seek apologies," he said, "and we don't
give them."

Note the pattern. The Church doesn't give apologies.

Giving an apology would be something caring and useful to
someone ELSE than the Church. It would be taking someone
else's feelings into account.

Then there's the whole "We sometimes look back on issues and
say, 'Maybe that was counterproductive for what we wish to
achieve,'"

Notice that it's only about how productive their behavior was
for what THEY wanted to achieve. How their behavior (teaching
the fundamental spiritual inferiority of Blacks for over a
century) may have been harmful to others doesn't matter.

This is the classic definition of sociopathy. The Church is
sociopathic.

I think they know that apologies open them up to litigation. Who fears litigation more than the 12+3?

It's not litigation they fear, it's pure arrogance, sociopathy. When I went to a Presbyterian service, the minister was so contrite and apologetic about the Church's indifferent stand on civil rights during the 60's when their support would've mattered. The clear inference--because SSM and women's rights are the current topics at hand--was "We could be wrong again," and he was apologizing in advance if the church was wrong and asking God's forgiveness for the trespasses he, or the church, might commit in future.

TSSC is a fraud that teaches people narcissim. They can't apologize because they can't be wrong. As another poster said, Oaks thinks he was born to teach fundamental principles to other people. He wasn't born to learn anything from the great unwashed.

...and besides, "some truths are not very helpful."



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Hahaha, awesome. Also, the Bish looks like Rudy Giulliani.

"We sometimes look back on issues and
say, 'Maybe that was counterproductive for what we wish to
achieve"

When your God's mouthpiece and "mistakes were made" doesn't quite fill the bill.