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Aren't these priamrily adminsitrartive changes? Can a refromation be based on administrative changes?
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There is, of course, an administrative dimension, but much of the significance is cultural. There is a major cultural shift going on in Mormonism. As I said to AA, to get bogged down in a definition on this seems alot to me like trying to avoid the fact that significant things are going on.
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Here's a question I have been wondering about: How much do you think the cold war environemnt influenced the mullah-ish tendecies decried by so many? And I mean much more than just the well-documneted Bircher tendecncies of some of our leaders. I mean the indirect influence of the whole cold war environment which was so pervasive in our national culture in the 50s and 60s and 70s.
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I'm not ignoring the changes. I just don't think they are so remarkable as to merit a title so sweeping as "reformation." When Catholicism underwent a "reformation," huge segments of the church broke away and founded protestantism. I don't think the average member of the church, if he notices anything different in the last few years, is very affected by them.
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Cultural changes resulting from administrative tinkering. Does that satisfy everybody?
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Most here are not the same as the majority of Mormons I grew up with in Salt Lake in the 70's and 80's. You're also more like my brothers than my parents or my sisters. Based on that narrow sampling, I'd say there's some kind of sea change going on. But I think the sampling is too narrow. I go over to CB and see not a whole lot has changed. This reformation talk is wishful thinking me thinks. One caveat: The LDS Church does presently have a leader who seems to prioritize assimilation as opposed to highlighting cultural, historical and doctrinal differences. But though the President he is but one man. I don't really know what's going on except I do think they have relegated Joseph to a small part of the basement in the VC.
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LOL, yeah ... that Joseph guy is a teeny part of the LDS faith. Who is he again?
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