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Date: April 21, 2017 09:04AM
In her most recent Flunking Sainthood article, Jana Riess addresses the problem that the Mormon church is having with trust issues. She referred to a post by Kevin Barney, originally posted by Common Consent, saying, "Barney pointed out that keeping important information about history or decision-making so close to the vest is just not serving the LDS Church well in the digital age."
But then she says, "The impulse behind this circling of the wagons is well-intentioned, I think: leaders want to protect members from unnecessary pain or confusion."
http://religionnews.com/2017/04/19/mormon-leaders-have-trust-issues/True/not true? Is she correct in this statement? Is this impulse well-intentioned? I'm too cynical to believe it. Personally, I think that the circling of wagons is simply a protective measure to further hide the truth, probably the result of a complete lack of both imagination and flexibility to intelligently react in a quickly changing world.
In other words, I think they don't got nuffin'. What once worked in the plodding age of information, delivered over the pulpit in droning talks to a mostly provincial group of people descending from a largely unsophisticated and mostly agricultural community, does not work in the digital age of quickly and widely available information, distributed to anyone with a bit of bandwidth. But well-intentioned...? My belief instead is that these guys can't handle it, so they huff and puff and blow stuff out their asses, because it's all they know.