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I was keeping the bench warm for Jesus.

I dropped my big foam hand with we are #1 on it while sitting on the fence, just as things were about to start. When I got back to my perch the whole damn thing was over.

I was one of those who had my mug on one side of the fence and my rump on the other side.

We're Mugwumps!

I think that’s temporary doctrine. If you can have temporary commandments you can have temporary doctrine. All that matters is what the church teaches this week.

I think the church has four themes in their doctrine.

1. Jesus loves us.

2. Jesus is our friend.

3. Jesus wants us to be obedient.

4. We must obey church leaders and go to the temple.

(Repeat)

messygoop Wrote:
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> I think the church has four themes in their
> doctrine.
>
> 1. Jesus loves us.
>
> 2. Jesus is our friend.
>
> 3. Jesus wants us to be obedient.
>
> 4. We must obey church leaders and go to the
> temple.
>
> (Repeat)

I would add one more.

5) Jesus wants our money.

Never forget #5. Oh, and move that to #1!

Yes. First priority. Does not look good for Elon Musk to have more money than Jesus. They can't have that!

The first and greatest commandment.

NEVER embarrass the corporation.

This seems pretty vanilla and boring. How do they get converts anymore?

The institution has stopped saying it. The institution has never told the members to stop believing it. Ergo...

I'm only aware of it in print in Mormon Doctrine, McConkey's drivel and bigotry, as an explanation of the denial of the priesthood to blacks.

I don't think it was disseminated in church materials beyond that.

I first encountered this idea on my mission in 1984 years after the revelation and after McConkey had been forced to includ a doctrinal disclaimer for his book.

I don't think it ever spread much beyond the more fundamentalist members and not as doctrine per se in my experience.

Exactly. They won't bring up that one nowadays. It needs to go down the memory hole.
The whole fence sitter thing is racist to the core.

I was a supply sergeant in the War in Heaven, and kept all the best stuff for myself to trade for hooch.

Sitting on fences is painful.