Personally speaking, I think Hinckley knew down deep that Mormonism was basically a fraud. His mealy-mouthed responses to Larry King and other interviewers were less than Samuel-the-Lamanite convincing.

Indeed, in the supremest of ironies, Gordy the Gallant put out a book titled, "Standing For Something"--but, c'mon, what did he really stand for?

Applause, maybe.

In reality, Hinckley made a comfy career of standing up for nothing--but kissing up to everybody.

It's not as if Hinckley wasn't given the chance, time and again, to rise from his righteous, revelatin,' red-cushioned seat and at least play-act as a prophet of God. To be sure, he had plenty of opportunities to step forward publicly and make a courageous defense of Mormonism.

Instead, when given that chance, Prophet, Seer and Repudiator Gordon B. Hinckley chose to lean back in his Latter-day Lazy-boy and blubber-waffle his way through bland, deceptive, welcome-to-Pleasantville/Wimpoutville answers. And, in the process, he ended up standing Mormonism on its head.

Just exactly how did Hinckley refuse to take a stand for something?

Let us count some of the ways:

--Hinckley publicly denied the bedrock Mormon doctrine of eternal progression from humanhood to godhood.

--Hinckley publicly refused to personally affirm that he was a prophet called of God, only that devoted Mormons sustained him as such.

--Hinckley publicly was willing only to say that he thinks God spoke through him.

--Hinckley publicly admitted that his prophetic "revelation" came only through personal inspiration via the Holy Ghost, which made his "revelatory" experiences no different that those of the average Mormon layperson.

--Hinckley publicly insisted that Mormons weren't a "weird" (i.e., peculiar) people.

--Hinckley publicly admitted that he didn't know how the major military conflicts then raging in the Middle East during his tenure as "prophet of God" would be resolved, or when.

--Hinckley publicly was unable to articulate what Mormons' civic duty was with regard to those military conflicts, even though he nonetheless said Mormonas must shoulder such a duty.

--Hinckley publicly denied that Mormonism's long and historic record of anti-Black bigotry was anything but a momentary blip.

At best, wiggle 'n jiggle Hinckley--author of "Standing for Something"--went down in Mormondumb's history nook as the "Gawrsh, I just dunno" prophet. The following latter-day list of latter-day limpyness stands as a lasting testament to how Hinckley stood stoutly for nothing and firmly planted his rump on a stump for everything.

http://home.teleport.com/~packham/gbh-god.htm
http://www.irr.org/mit/hinckley.html
http://www.lds-mormon.com/gbh.shtml
http://www.lds-mormon.com/lkl_00.shtml
http://www.lds-mormon.com/60min.shtml
http://www.exmormon.org/mormon/mormon381.htm
http://www.onlineutah.com/polygamyhinckley.shtml
http://www.truthandgrace.com/hinckley.htm
http://www.angelfire.com/ca5/real/lds2.htm
http://www.greaterthings.com/Newsletter/49_Man_as_God.htm
http://www.cesnur.org/2004/lds.htm
http://www.i4m.com/think/leaders/Hinckley_lame.htm
http://www.tungate.com/lk_2.htm


A rather listless list of accomplishments, if you ask me (especially based on inner-circle stories told to me by those who know that Hinckley was snidely critical of others whom he labeled as "schmoozers." Talk about the pot calling the kettle white and delightsome. Maybe he was the prophet of projection).

Oh, well. Thank gawd we now have Thomas S. Monson, self-proclaimed Wonder Boy to the Widows.



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Hinkley is one conceited, homophobic, and dishonest piece of crap that I absolutely have no respect for.

Harping on "moral courage" all the time, he replied to a basic, simple question regarding TSCC's embarrassing history of teaching the "truth" with a rather dishonest answer: I don't know that we teach that."

And TSCC expects the whole world to think of him as God's representative on earth?

Give me a break.

Absolutely. Notice how differently Hinckley talked to the faithful in conference than when he was talking to intelligent people in the real world, revealing if not an embarrassment at least a consciousness of the absurdity of Mormonism. How firm a foundation.

around the beginning of the Iraq war, around 2003.

"No one knows what the future holds". Great teaching from the revelator and prophet.

I remember taking a tour of the great and spacious conference center, and the gentle, aged lady was gushing over a picture of Hinckley. Gross. To me, he's right up there with dishonest salesmen hawking their wares. I use the "lying because his lips are moving" joke when others talk about him.



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I bought 'Standing For Something' at SLC airport, waiting for a flight.

Musta been great reading; I can't remember a word of it...


Gordie lied and laughed all the way to the bank...

The mormon god is a god of small things. About the best he can do is find lost car keys.

I agree that he himself did not believe in Mormonism. His denials in televised interviews were eye popping for me at the time (I was a TBM then). I thought he was gutless and dishonest, certainly not a man of God.

Just look at all the sh!t he built! Surely he must have been one of Elohim; the Real Estate Mogul's prize pony's. Look at all the McTemples we got! Look at the McJeezus Mall! F*ck; this guy was on fire!!

LOL...

I'll never forget whiggle n jiggles lip service for Parley Pratt in one of his last GC addresses.

I wish someone would do a mash up video of him talking like Yoda!

I'm from outside the morridor, so had never encountered GA's before. So in the MTC, he came to visit one day and he rode past us in a golf cart with missionaries standing all around to greet him. Then everyone started singing WTTOGFAP (very original indeed). I remember thinking, wow, here is god's prophet riding right past me. This is god's highest person on earth, right here in front of me, and I'm standing only a few feet away. Surely god has his spiritual spot light shining right now on him, watching him as he goes along, and I'm within a few feet of god's sight line. I felt tho thpecial.

A short while later, he spoke to all the missionaries, I was in one of the other buildings so we watched him on the big screen. His big prophetic remark? "Those of you Elders with girlfriends waiting for you... don't worry, they won't be there when you return."

Hinckley knew he was a fraud!

The fear of embarrassment of having to admit that to his wife and his family is the only thing that kept him going.

In fact i dare say that's what keeps most of the "Brethren" in lock-step and perpetuating the con-game of Moronism...the absolute utter sheer terror of the embarrassment of having to admit to your family, friends and associates that you got it all wrong and that you aren't an honest authentic person...you are simply a "character actor" acting along in a great play that harms those who put any credence in your acting ability.

I will never forgive nor forget that, "I don't know that we teach that" or the "i am sustained as such" comments from that interview.

He was NEVER a "prophet"...he only played one on TV...and even then it was a stretch!!!

Or so it seems to me...

don't forget he built a mega building at BYU.. Hinckley Building & and dedicated it himself while still alive

That's at least the second time that has happened at BYU. The Ernest L. Wilkinson Center was built and dedicated while he was still the president. Egomaniacs.