Posted by:
sherlock
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Date: March 28, 2012 08:34AM
The church was clearly very unhappy with the BBC documentary 'The Mormon Candidate', hand delivering a letter of complaint to the BBC, which mentioned that Elder Holland had been ambushed and then putting up the defensive on Facebook.
So as far as I can recall, these were some of the key approximate questions Holland was asked by John Sweeney:
* the book of Abaraham papyri don't correspond with Joseph Smith's translation. How do you explain that?
* does the strengthening church members committee still exist? What is its purpose? What is its secondary purpose?
* does/did the church do throat slitting in the temple? So would Mitt Romney have done this and sworn secrecy to it?
* does the church shun members who leave?
* is the church a cult?
While the throat slitting question would probably make for uncomfortable viewing for any TBM old enough to have gone through the temple pre-90, the questions as a whole were perfectly reasonable and valid.
If Holland found these intrusive, difficult or sensitive, then perhaps he needs to look more closely at the religion he purports is headed by JC.
He floundered on a couple of questions, did ok on some others, but overall I think that any neutral observer would think that these were good pertinent questions to ask and that he came across as a smartly dressed and well fed corporate suit, but not at all an apostle as he claims.
I also think he could have been asked some other equally challenging and embarrassing questions like City Creek, JS polygamy and polyandry etc.
Church PR will no doubt be in overdrive to inoculate the flock and claim how unfair this portrayal was. I say that the chickens are finally coming home to roost and the church doesn't like it one little bit.