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Another great quote...
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That's it. I had forgotten its subject matter.
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Our modern leaders appear to be chosen because they are great administrators, not great theologians, thinkers, philosophers or scientists. Our bureaucracy is large and perhaps that is the sort of leader which we need today, but if you look at the debates within the Church at the turn of the century and its participants, much of what we rely upon today was artuiculated then, and the modern leaders do more administration than philosophizing.
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the leaders of the church are most worried about the least among us.
Philosophy is the last thing in our minds. Decreases in percentange of YM going on missions--defcon 5. |
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we don't need theologians in the church. we don't need philosophers.
we need revelators. It's interesting that we view the apostasy as something being present, then very quickly falling from the church. The argument could be applied to the modern church: burst of revelation until Joseph Smith's death, and then very little since then. I'm not saying that modern apostles aren't revelators. I'm saying the nature and quanity of revelations has appeared to change. |
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It's one larger than Arch gave credit for there being, and I'm sure I could come up with others but I'm tired of fighting this particular fight. Just a little while ago the Disaffecteds were complaining about how our GAs were not poor enough.
It really bites that God can't figure out how to call the correct men to lead his church. Quote:
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The age of innovation and revelation is past.
We have no philosophizers. We have leaders that inevitably produce nothing but the mindless, simpleton byproduct of groupthink because they are all from the same racial, demographic and geographic substrata. We have leaders that are more interested in money than saving the lives of homeless men. Our leaders stress that money is so important that however you acquire it is OK as long as you don't get caught. It's amazing we haven't imploded into the 21st century version of the Strang-ites. |
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