Posted by:
Elder Berry
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Date: June 17, 2019 12:22PM
In reading this post it occurred to me that a Mormon prophet doesn't use his revelatory power to address anything more than basic exploitation of people's ignorance.
Take for instance how the success happens. It is obvious to anyone who understands Mormonism who the next in charge old guy will be.
But The Mormons take advantage of the gap their revelatory claims give them. They don't have to have a conclave but they want people to think that there is something extra specially spiritual about their choosing methods when the reverse is their truth. It is always known beforehand who it will be.
https://www.exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,2233102,2233943#msg-2233943And this exploitation of the obvious as something serendipitously spiritual that one just needs membership to understand their obvious "spiritually" is extremely irritating and rightly compared to cultish.
For starters many people unfamiliar with Mormonism have no clue what a prophet is to Mormons. Some actually believe that The Book of Mormon's Golden Plates exist in Utah. They think of the leader of Mormonism is a quaint old man who guides his people with a grandfatherly bit of biblical and golden biblical proverbial guidance that people could like a pope ignore.
When they hear of an excommunication they think that the people in question probably did something heinous and get confused when I tell them of their crimes.
Mormonism is therefor cloaked in "mists of darkness" surrounding their great and spacious church office building. Their tree of life is actually a genealogy of people endowed with delusion alive or dead.
And these mists cover all sort of Mormon things.
For instance...
Sustaining vote - a vote obviously with nothing but public exposure of their disenfranchised.
Their Word of Wisdom - a health code with no other purpose than to justify teetotalling of both alcohol and the highly caffeinated beverages.
Baptism - child conversion that has no additional benefits by being 8 years from birth.
Baby Blessing - an excuse to get the name of a person on their records as early as possible.
And there are more. Mormonism's claim to revelatory powers are found in all of the above. It is taught that revelation either scriptural or personal comes into play in almost ever aspect of Mormonism but like their succession it isn't revelatory. The outcome is known before their application of "the spirit." You can see this in the eyes of the Mormons. They expect all they do with their religion to be imbued with the same patina that the succession of their prophet carries even when they have preconceived notions of what should happen. It is basically calling revelation what is spiritual confirmation which is so not the same thing. And as such it is fairly obvious that this is simple exploitation of people's willful ignorance.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 06/17/2019 12:25PM by Elder Berry.