Posted by:
Pooped
(
)
Date: May 20, 2015 11:46AM
The LDS church has gone 180 degrees in the opposite direction today. People want to be on the cutting edge with innovation and comprehension. JS faked this by claiming he knew things about the relatively new discoveries in South America regarding Mayans. He rewrote the Bible in the form of the BofM to make it seem new and improved. He claimed that God was back in the business of giving new revelations which the highly religious population of the time was eager to embrace.
Today it's all different. LDS, Inc. is trying to rehash old, tired, outdated ideas and practices. People are sick and tired of the old guard. Even Bednar admitted he didn't have the knowledge or background to give appropriate answers to everyone's questions. That's not what people want today. They clamor for instant gratification and instant, impressive and mind blowing answers from men who are "God's chosen". If LDS, Inc. is just a bunch of tired old men clinging desperately to old ideas, old beliefs, old doctrine, old revelations, old practices, old writings, and culture norms that are hopelessly irrelevant, what does this religion offer? Less and less every passing day. The old are the only ones who want to keep hearing the old stuff. LDS, Inc. has gone so far away from the original and successful model of Joe Smith's innovative religious practices that I don't understand how they ever expect to turn the tide. The current men in suits in corner offices are just clutching onto the status quo so tightly that an innovative idea would shrivel to death from lack of air.
Just my personal observations.