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[Sheldon]

hawkgrrrl wrote:

Holy Cow – funny thing, when pressed for details about Joseph Smith’s polygamy, the church deferred to Todd Compton who wrote In Sacred Loneliness!

Yes, they reference Todd’s book, but they don’t like it, as they won’t run advertisements for it in the Deseret News

[mom3]

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hawkgrrrl wrote:

Holy Cow – funny thing, when pressed for details about Joseph Smith’s polygamy, the church deferred to Todd Compton who wrote In Sacred Loneliness.

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Sheldon wrote:

Yes, they reference Todd’s book, but they don’t like it, as they won’t run advertisements for it in the Deseret News

My vindictive heart just sings with this. 😈

[SilentDawning]

mom3 wrote:

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I miss my blissful days of blind “testimony”. It was easier not to wonder these things.

Very often I am right there with you.

Amen.

[SilentDawning]

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OTOH, the COC has not seemed to grow much since then.

I have a question — does it matter if it doesn’t grow? Aren’t we in the truth business? And given the sacrifices our religion requires of its members, should it not adhere to the truth in spite of ensuing lack of grown, and organizational loss? If the answer to this question is “no”, doesn’t it mean the LDS church is no different than any other wordly organization?

[Cadence]

If you are against polygamy you are in a bind if you believe the church is true. If Joseph did practice it you have a prophet doing things not of God yet claiming they are. If Joseph did not practice it then the church went astray with Brigham. So either you have a fallen prophet or a church lost in the wilderness. Very hard to make sense out of the practice.

No wonder you have all those fundamentalist offshoot religions adhering to polygamy. At least they are consistent. Dangerously so but consistent

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[Old-Timer]

Yep – with some meanings of “true”. At the very least, it can force re-evaluation of meaning – and that is a very good thing, in the end.

[DarkJedi]

SilentDawning wrote:

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OTOH, the COC has not seemed to grow much since then.

I have a question — does it matter if it doesn’t grow? Aren’t we in the truth business? And given the sacrifices our religion requires of its members, should it not adhere to the truth in spite of ensuing lack of grown, and organizational loss? If the answer to this question is “no”, doesn’t it mean the LDS church is no different than any other wordly organization?

Good point, SD. I actually admire my Jewish friends. They believe they have truth, and they do. But it’s none of their concern whether anyone else does – they’re fine with allowing others to believe what they believe. I think they truly espouse AoF 11.

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