https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2019/07/12/should-lds-bishops/

A continuation of Summer's thread 2 days ago.

https://www.exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,2241334


After reading so many horror stories and inappropriate behavior from poster's here, you'd have to be nuts to allow your kids to be alone in a bishop interview.

This is taking Sam Young's efforts and responding with a scorched earth policy.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/12/2019 10:06AM by Elder Berry.

Exactly, doubling down on an already really bad idea. No way would I allow an 8 year old to be interviewed alone with an adult.

sbg Wrote:
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> No way would I allow an 8 year old to be
> interviewed alone with an adult.

If they do it, future Mormons will be trained as children to accept interviewing for their whole lives and being missionaries as teens. It will be a wholistic indoctrination from baptism to initiation through missionary service. Their sealing with complete the process of making firm believers in following authority and being reviewed for devotion regularly and following local leaders in observing rules like they did on their missions.

I suspect "every member a missionary" will become everyone need to go on a mission. I foresee women being pushed just as hard to go from 19-20 and then married up to produce more sealed deal Mormons (BIc.)

Only a cult wants to isolate the children of it's members and interrogate them. They aren't interviews. They are interrogation sessions.

It's all mind control and the church wants to double down on controlling the youth at a younger age.

It's some sick stuff. It shows the mindset of the church leadership. This is all about control.

"Only a cult wants to isolate..."

Exactly.

Rubicon Wrote:
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> Only a cult wants to isolate the children of it's
> members and interrogate them. They aren't
> interviews. They are interrogation sessions.
>
> It's all mind control and the church wants to
> double down on controlling the youth at a younger
> age.
>
> It's some sick stuff. It shows the mindset of the
> church leadership. This is all about control.

Spot on!

There are some good people that know where to draw the line and back-off and use some common sense. However, if you have a power-driven stake president (that is cynical like some some police officers - Everybody is breaking the law, just they don't get caught) then you have a very bad situation. Some of us went through gestapo-like practices because no higher-ups corrected the malicious stake president and his appetite for power.

Some of went through really awful interrogations because the church had taught that such was God's way. You had to suffer unnecessarily because it was the only way to reconcile one's sins.

Not just an adult, but an adult with authority and no training. An adult that doesn't have a basic script and can go wherever he deems he wants to go. They should make all kids be accompanied by a parent. This is just ripe for more kids being traumatized.

Well, yes, they are. They doubled down when they acted like they were supportive of gays and then pulled the children of gays policies.

Anyone here have a trusting relationship with an lds leader? I thought I did. How do you think I ended up in the situation I found myself in?

Are they playing mind games with members?

How about 8!?
Makes 12 seem reasonable right?

I doubt it.

To me it seems the church is starting to shift from a conversion church to a retention church. They are looking for ways to retain and getting their claws in earlier is one of these ways.

They don't care if parents are present. They want the Santa Claus of leadership and following them to sink deeper and deeper.

> To me it seems the church is starting to shift
> from a conversion church to a retention church.
> They are looking for ways to retain and getting
> their claws in earlier is one of these ways.

This is an insightful observation. The balance has certainly shifted towards retention.