On the PBS Thread on the MAD Board a TBM defended Oaks comments about not criticizing church leaders.
we don't criticize the Lord's anointed. why? because in any organization it is well known that when the leadership is murmured about it causes contention in the ranks and a falling out of favor with the head honcho.
it's the same in the military....only they call it a red flag and perhaps eventual Article 15 and perhaps eventual dishonorable discharge and in our Church we call it Apostasy and excommunication...and separation from our Father in Heaven. It's not unique to our Church, by any means. I didn't know if you knew but thought it appropriate to point out.
What do you think? Is Mormonism like the military? Are Mormon rank and file expected to obey at the same level that military rank and file are?
If this is true, shouldn't investigators be warned ahead of time that getting baptized is like joining the military?
"We of this Church do not rely on any man-made statement concerning the nature of Deity. Our knowledge comes directly from the personal experience of Joseph Smith." - Gordon B. Hinckley
"It's wrong to criticize leaders of the Mormon Church even if the criticism is true." - Dallin H. Oaks
The military only requires one weekend a month, and 2 weeks a year. So it's not as bad as the church.
WK: "Joseph Smith asserted that the Book of Mormon peoples were the original inhabitants of the americas"
Will Schryver: "No, he didn’t." 3/19/08
Still waiting for Will to back this up...
Kinda....except the leader at the top of the Mormon chain of command asks his invisible friend for guidance...oh wait....
"Whatever appears to be against the Book of Mormon is going to be overturned at some time in the future. So we can be pretty open minded."-charity 3/7/07
we don't criticize the Lord's anointed. why? because in any organization it is well known that when the leadership is murmured about it causes contention in the ranks and a falling out of favor with the head honcho.
it's the same in the military....only they call it a red flag and perhaps eventual Article 15 and perhaps eventual dishonorable discharge and in our Church we call it Apostasy and excommunication...and separation from our Father in Heaven.
What a freakin' IDIOT!! Members of the military criticize their leaders ALL THE TIME!
If they kicked out every military man or woman who criticized his/her leadership, we wouldn't have a military.
Obviously the person who wrote that was never in the armed services.
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"