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Date: March 22, 2019 03:11AM
macaRomney Wrote:
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> (anono this week)
> I'm thinking they have given up on the idea of
> heading back to Missouri. Below is an article
> about how the church is trying to get rid of much
> of it's land acquisitions. Environmental impact of
> mega cities isn't a concern apparently. But
> cramming in lots of people is desirable. Preparing
> for the future 'abomination of desolation's' is
> not the vogue thing to be concerned about anymore.
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https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/jan/30/fro> m-book-to-boom-how-the-mormons-plan-a-city-for-500
> 000-in-florida
The church has already built a temple in Kansas, City across the river from Independence just west of Liberty. It's no mini temple either. It's a larger one and quite ugly. Anyways I think they have given up on the whole temple site thing. Sure they have a visitor's center there with nothing in it. They have a visitor's center where the Liberty Jail used to be.
I think the church is more interested in being an international Christian church than focusing the early church and the migration west. That was a pet interest of Gordon B Hinckley who put a lot of money into sprucing up church historical sites and even building a temple in Nauvoo.
Right now I think the church is more concerned with retaining it's members and keeping the tithing money coming in. They seem to think getting the young people on missions and into singles wards and building temples is what keeps it going.