Has your view of the church

[MikeWaters]

Originally Posted by tooblue

I love America. I'm proud to be an American. I wear my American values on my sleeve. I'm simply pointing out the absurdness of your arrogance.

I don't know what to say. You haven't made a statement that can be addressed. You are playing "read my mind" and sorry, I don't have the time to try and read your mind.

[tooblue]

Originally Posted by tooblue

By the way, how's your Boy Scout troop doing with the massive American funded budget you have

Here's the thing. I bet it is an amazing Scout troop that I would want my boys to be involved in and not because of the money.

[tooblue]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

I don't know what to say. You haven't made a statement that can be addressed. You are playing "read my mind" and sorry, I don't have the time to try and read your mind.

YOU don't have time to read my mind? Maybe I hit the nail so squarely on the head it put you to sleep.

[Indy Coug]

Originally Posted by tooblue

The US is dollar is worth how much these days?

Your response is your tacit concession of my point.

[tooblue]

Originally Posted by Indy Coug

Your response is your tacit concession of my point.

You have to make a point first before it can be conceded. By the way your comments in this thread only reinforces my point. Keep it up, you'll help me hammer my thoughts home!

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by tooblue

You have to make a point first before it can be conceded. By the way your comments in this thread only reinforces my point. Keep it up, you'll help me hammer my thoughts home!

What a series of threadjacks here.

Are you seriously arguing tooblue, if you withdrew the American members, money and leadership from the Church, it would survive?

What would be its center without SLC?

On a much grander scale, what happened to Christian sects which rejected Rome?

Your argument is simply an attempt to bicker, not to make a valid point.

[MikeWaters]

Originally Posted by Tex

Kind of like CG, right?

The CG God is a jealous God. We are pure Old Testament here.

[tooblue]

Originally Posted by Archaea

What a series of threadjacks here.

Are you seriously arguing tooblue, if you withdrew the American members, money and leadership from the Church, it would survive?

What would be its center without SLC?

On a much grander scale, what happened to Christian sects which rejected Rome?

Your argument is simply an attempt to bicker, not to make a valid point.

It's an attempt to expose the abject arrogance prevalent in yours and Mikes' statements. Seriously, yours and Mike's views are so woefully skewed you cannot recognize the myopia for what it is.

Note to Archea and Mike: I do not live in the mission field

[CardiacCoug]

Originally Posted by Indy Coug

I used to believe that apostasy on a large scale in this modern age of transportation, communication and centralized curriculum was impossible. I don't believe that any longer. I see that the internet is the new avenue for sowing the seeds of spiritual discontent, making the church in people's own personal image; one that conforms more conveniently with mainstream religious and political thought.

The tares are in the process of being gathered up.

This is ridiculous.

The Church changes. People who criticized the Church in the past (over a myriad of policies and beliefs) have frequently been proven correct when the Church eventually came around to their view.

A close relative of mine harassed President Kimball (in a nice way) for years about the Priesthood ban and guess what? She was one of many who helped change the Church into her "own personal image" -- the image of tolerance in place of the image of ignorance and bigotry.

People who are supremely confident that they can easily distinguish the wheat from the tares are either purposefully ignorant or stupid (or both). It's not that easy.

[MikeWaters]

Mullahs are on the run. That's the take-home lesson.