It's either a case of self-righteousness or a paid troll who can't defend his positions so he must ridicule the truthful, honest, just and scriptural viewpoints that oppose falsehoods.
To me, it's not painful to admit wrongdoing, or to make concessions, or to acknowledge that I wrote something publicly that doesn't make sense upon reflection or upon it being pointed out to me.
I simply make the correction, and fine tune the direction I'm going, with the goal of always pointing to true north.
The hallmark of leadership in the church or defenders of leadership in the church (on this blog for example) is this:
NEVER EVER admit wrongdoing or error.
The ironic thing is that by publicly confessing one's sins and fallibility, the leader (or any person) becomes more influential and beloved.
"To err is human", but there is NEVER
even a hint of acknowledgement of prior error.
Even this past Friday's reversal of the policy towards gays and their children contained zero contrition.
The leadership is just acting. It's all theater.
The leadership knows full well that members like their defenders on this blog and throughout the church will defend them so they don't have to defend themselves.
The hollow defense is this:
God works in mysterious ways and we may not understand it now but we will understand it later.
This is called the "put your head in the sand" defense.
And when people who have their head out of the sand explain that it was just an error to begin with, they are labeled as doubters and critics and apostate.
And the leaders happily
allow this type of culture to exist, and in fact, CREATE this oppressive culture.
Humility would solve all the problems.
It's not an accident or coincidence that one of the five pillars of the doctrine of Christ, as outlined in 3rd Nephi 11 is humility!
Christ expressed it this way, repetitiously in back-to-back verses:
We must become as a little child!
If we don't, we "can in nowise inherit the kingdom of God."
Never acknowledging fault or wrongdoing or error or fallibility is the exact opposite of the doctrine of Christ.
I will give any humble people here who would like to defend the indefensible to go on record and simply state the fact with no judgment and no malice towards the leaders.
Roughly three and a half years ago the church came out with what Pres Nelson essentially called a revelation from God denying baptism to the children of gay parents. That in itself is completely and a hundred percent contradictory to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
This past Friday, the church reversed itself on that false doctrine.
Are there any defenders of the Church here, and we know your names, that would like to acknowledge that the first so-called "revelation" was in fact an error?
Or do you want to go ahead and attack and quibble about how I've asked the question or how I summarized things, continuing to avoid an acknowledgement of any form of error coming from the Brethren?
I predict this opportunity being made available to people here at this moment will be greeted by crickets. But I hope I'm wrong, and I hope some of the most outspoken defenders here, even one, will humble themselves as a little child, following Jesus' doctrine, and make the obvious concession and acknowledgement of error.