In the closed thread Matilda wrote:
"Saviorself are you saying he was a personal witness to the Hinckley scam. Did you meet with him was anything said or was it inferred? Thank you for your clarification I feel a bit better. The way he spoke was never convincing or even reverent with all the jokes. Did your parents leave the church too?"


No, my parents did not leave the church. My father was a TBM and after I left the church he and I never discussed religion. He occasionally told me that I should return to the church, but I just brushed him off, knowing that a rational discussion was not possible.

Both Hinckley and my father invested their entire lives into LDSinc. My father had a high profile position in the Salt Lake City and Utah communities, and part of that position was being a faithful TBM. My best guess is that bought into the church 100%. After a TBM has gone down that path for many years there is no turning around.

Hinckley was in fact a faithful Mormon, but when he became the Prophet, Seer and Revelator he likely had a big disappointment when the non-existent god was totally missing in action. I surmise that as the years went by the MIA god must have taken a toll on Hinckley and so he developed the familiar Hinckley facade to satisfy the demands of his situation.

This is just my retrospective interpretation of people and events. I have no eye-witness information.