Posted by:
babyloncansuckit
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Date: May 19, 2019 04:28PM
There are some schools of thought that believe if you can be fooled you deserve to be. I’m wondering if the church leaders subscribe to that. I think in positions that are competed for, there are true believers because they’ve staked everything on it. But the top positions are filled by royalty and cronies, so they aren’t so invested in belief. They just have to play along. But that’s actually quintessentially Mormon. It was always about the show. Joseph gave them a good show and took their money. And some of their women, thank you very much.
Pressure from the Internet is really changing the church. It’s making it more culty. Any perceived threat drives Mormons deeper into fundamentalism, just where the leaders want them. Kaching. But now their enemy is light and knowledge which puts them in a bind. Solution? Drop all pretense and become a real cult.
Maybe you can gauge the level of belief in the leaders by the cultiness. If they know they’re taking everyone for a ride, it will be culty.