Elder Russell M. Nelson has recently done the world a huge favour: using a recent case study, he has explained exactly how God works, whenever he wishes to reveal his will to the world. It goes like this.

First, 85 year old control freaks in diapers, teetering on the verge of senility, all agree on a new policy - in Nelson's case study, a policy of denying full religious communion to anyone under eighteen, no matter how personally worthy, no matter *if their parents consent*, only on grounds the person's parents are gay. In other words, a policy of, in effect, punishing someone spiritually/ecclesiastically for someone else's "transgressions", seemingly contrary to all standards of fairness, and contrary to the LDS Church's own Second Article of Faith.

Then, God quietly insinuates that punitive, unfair policy into a leadership manual not open to the public.

THEN, God has someone leak the policy to an excommunicated, ex-Mormon apostate (John Dehlin).

God then has the excommunicated apostate publish it to the world.

After thousands of Mormons and non-Mormons object to such a brazenly unfair policy, God then modifies it.

When the modification fails to pacify the critics or reduce the bad press, God then sends an apostle out to claim that the policy, from the get-go, was in fact, a "revelation" - and nothing at all like the sly, furtive, and downright mean attempt to help stave off a future takeover of the Mormon church by social liberals it seemed to be.

As a final touch, God does not have the apostle specify whether it was the *original* policy, or the modified policy, which was the revelation, leaving yet another question unanswered.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/17/2016 03:36PM by Tal Bachman.

In mysterious ways for sure.

Or, if there really is a Omnipotent God, he'd make his wishes known in an exact communication & avoid any & all confusion.

What on earth do you expect? Don't you know how many sets of keys God was responsible for finding that month? Somebody else had better step up and do some of the heavy lifting around here! God was just filling up a few inboxes with the "to do" list. Get some of those old fossils fossilitizing, Dagnamit! Why should God do all the work? Sheesh!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/17/2016 03:52PM by Devoted Exmo.

I appreciate the effort ghawd puts into entertaining us. Remember, if he does it so that there can be no doubt it was him doing the 'doing', there would be no opportunity to exercise faith.

Or, from another perspective:

1. Quietly insert new anti-gay policy in Church Handbook of Instructions.

2. Panic when Handbook is leaked to public.

3. Panic again when damage-control "clarification" fails to pacify vocal opponents of policy.

4. Redefine policy as a "revelation" directly from God.

5. ???

6. Profit!

Something you and I agree upon entirely, Tal :)
Well put.

homophobia = CoJCoLDS

(Someone please check my math, but I'm sure it's close.)

It's obvious that Nelson was retrofitting the new "policy" with the stamp of divine revelation. They wanted to pursue the duplicitous strategy of publicly accepting gays that weren't members while driving out all gay members behind closed doors.

You never would have heard about this homophobic change if Dehlin hadn't leaked it. They would have continued to make headlines like "LDS leaders do not advocate for separate public drinking fountain for gay Americans." Meanwhile, they would have been pursuing secret witch hunts against inactive gay Mormons who got married, and disallowing their children from baptism.

I had a MP who was like this: smiling and jovial on stage, but a conniving asshole behind closed doors. You soon learned not to trust his public façade, as a snarling jerk awaited you in private.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/18/2016 08:46AM by axeldc.