The Failed/Fake LDS Church – The New FLDS Church
Posted: March 10th, 2023, 1:23 pm
The Failed/Fake LDS Church – The New FLDS Church
In recent years, the LDS Church has focused an enormous amount of energy on supposedly "getting the name right" for the LDS Church. I consider this effort to be worse than wasted, since they have not spent a corresponding amount of effort on getting the substance right, as opposed to merely attending to first level appearances. As the old saying goes, you can try to put lipstick on a pig, but it is still just a pig.
If the leaders wanted to be successful according to scriptural standards by exhibiting the inherent power of the gospel to change societies for the better, (e.g. Moses 7:19 – the city of Enoch), they would do that, but they don't have any such desire. They are perfectly happy to be successful Pharisees – "rich young[/old] rulers." Perhaps something really radical will cause them to change their minds some time, but it is hard to imagine how big that jolt would have to be.
In the spirit of getting the correct descriptive name or names for whatever the Salt Lake City church should be called, I would like to make some suggestions on how to make the names match the substance:
Donald Trump has made into an art form the use of single word (or very short) nicknames to differentiate himself from other big names in the political world. I think he's onto something. We have terms in common use in the Mormon subculture such as TSSC -- the so-called Church (or should it be TSSTC – the so-called true church?) Then there is TBM --- true blue Mormon, I believe -- etc. Perhaps we need to use that kind of social shorthand for a different purpose here to assign the correct names to whatever this institution is which thrives in offices located in downtown Salt Lake City.
There is such a thing as the Fundamentalist LDS Church. Unfortunately, that truth interferes with the use of the letter "F" in this manner. But perhaps we can convince people to start thinking of the terms "Failed" or "Fake" when they see the letter "F” instead of Fundamentalist, since the Salt Lake City LDS church is anything but a fundamentalist church. But it most certainly is both Fake and Failed.
Failed state/church
Apparently, the normal meaning of a "failed state" is that “A failed state is a state that has lost its effective ability to govern its populace.” Or “According to the political theories of Max Weber, a state is defined as maintaining a monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force within its borders.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failed_state
Those definitions are not a perfect fit for describing the government of God on earth, since that particular government is NEVER supposed to use physical force, but only persuasion. However, if that "government of God" totally abandons any effort to inspire people to heed the directives and actions and the lessons of the Scriptures, then it has truly failed in its mission.
My guess is that the church leaders have taken in about $1 trillion since 1896. Not too bad of a profit from a confidence game. But that is relatively unimportant. The fact that the Church is exploiting its opportunities to turn the church into a priestcraft piggy bank, while the leaders present themselves as being terrible examples of Christians to the members and potential members (while claiming otherwise, of course), makes the whole church program hostile to the true gospel of Christ. Illegitimately implementing the tax on religion (finalized in about 1960) which is the new tithing, means that the bad effect of the Church turning to priestcraft and taking $1 trillion from naïve members, means that they have actually done about $100 trillion worth of damage, or more, to the US society and the world since 1896. Or if we say it a different way, they have prevented at least $100 trillion in good being done in the name of Christianity, things that would lead us towards an ideal human society which we might call Zion, or the Millennium.
I would say that church leaders today, in cooperation with their predecessors beginning in 1896, have committed the worst crime in three centuries of human history by totally failing in their assigned mission to improve human society. They had, or could have had, the means to carry out their mission, but they abandoned that mission and took the money and ran.
Those church leaders have been active participants in, and contributors to, every evil which has befallen our society since that fateful year of 1896 when Wilford Woodruff, Lorenzo Snow, and others, decided that Nehor and Korihor had the right idea, and they should follow suit rather than follow the clear examples of Christ himself.
Perhaps we should start holding public funerals to mourn the passing of the real Christian Church in 1896. We have the Muslims and the Jews who mourn various religious losses, with those rituals being carried on for thousands of years. The Muslim yearly event is quite striking:
What was supposed to happen?
The original Church of Christ established Judeo-Christian standards throughout much of the world and created the Western world and its great defense of freedom.
The restored church was supposed to be the second dose or booster of freedom and righteousness, to add to the gains made to society through Christianity which brought us Western civilization, and push us on to much higher Zion or Millennial social standards, but instead it blew up on the launching pad, and it still sits there in smoking ruins, and no one has a clue as to how to rebuild it or relaunch it. Maybe an Elon Musk kind of person can fix this mess as he has fixed others (reusable rockets, Twitter, electric vehicles, etc.), but I don't see that on the horizon yet. Maybe we will ALL have to become Elon Musks to get things moving again.
We don’t even know what the truth is
Things have deteriorated so far, that essentially no one living today can even tell us what the gospel was that Christ taught while he was alive on the earth. Incidentally, I am quite certain that one can only explain it with action, not by a plethora of nice-sounding words. It appears that the church leaders and most of the members are willing to accept the atonement of Jesus Christ, but haven't a clue about what else he might have accomplished and intended during his life and thereafter. A very large segment of the leaders and church members today seem to believe that, except for the atonement, nothing changed between the Old Testament and the New Testament, and it is still Old Testament time in modern America. Christ taught a new gospel, but we have ignored it or twisted it into nonsense.
We read the words of our Scriptures and they are gibberish to us. We are mesmerized by the words, but completely miss his meaning. He taught us in parables, and we imagine that we understand the parables today, but we appear to be no wiser than most of the people at his time in understanding his complete meaning. Again, action is all that matters. Buckets of soothing words are meaningless. If we are not changing society for the better every day, in a major way, then we are no better than the pagans.
Paganism
Incidentally, I want to write another post which argues that today we truly are no better than the pagans. (And many DNA Mormons ARE pagans.) Later this year a book should be published entitled Pagan America: The Decline of Christianity and the Coming Dark Age, by John Daniel Davidson. That should be interesting.
The new church slogan "The Covenant Path" sounds suspiciously like the Tao or the Dao, "The Way" of Eastern religions such as Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. We are actually being instructed on how to become good Chinese pagan slaves, not free American Christians. The Asian “Way of Heaven" includes being properly obedient to the Emperor and all other authority figures, dead or alive. Today's church’s anti-Constitution globalist teachings and actions are the exact opposite of the personal freedom and resultant prosperity and multitude of good works implied by a Zion or Millennial society.
https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/ ... orship.htm
The solution (Jordan Peterson has it right in another current LDSFF post)
The antidote to the passive slave/victim religion taught by the LDS church today is voluminous and aggressive free-will charity-based action to improve society and improve the levels of freedom and personal responsibility.
In recent years, the LDS Church has focused an enormous amount of energy on supposedly "getting the name right" for the LDS Church. I consider this effort to be worse than wasted, since they have not spent a corresponding amount of effort on getting the substance right, as opposed to merely attending to first level appearances. As the old saying goes, you can try to put lipstick on a pig, but it is still just a pig.
If the leaders wanted to be successful according to scriptural standards by exhibiting the inherent power of the gospel to change societies for the better, (e.g. Moses 7:19 – the city of Enoch), they would do that, but they don't have any such desire. They are perfectly happy to be successful Pharisees – "rich young[/old] rulers." Perhaps something really radical will cause them to change their minds some time, but it is hard to imagine how big that jolt would have to be.
In the spirit of getting the correct descriptive name or names for whatever the Salt Lake City church should be called, I would like to make some suggestions on how to make the names match the substance:
Donald Trump has made into an art form the use of single word (or very short) nicknames to differentiate himself from other big names in the political world. I think he's onto something. We have terms in common use in the Mormon subculture such as TSSC -- the so-called Church (or should it be TSSTC – the so-called true church?) Then there is TBM --- true blue Mormon, I believe -- etc. Perhaps we need to use that kind of social shorthand for a different purpose here to assign the correct names to whatever this institution is which thrives in offices located in downtown Salt Lake City.
There is such a thing as the Fundamentalist LDS Church. Unfortunately, that truth interferes with the use of the letter "F" in this manner. But perhaps we can convince people to start thinking of the terms "Failed" or "Fake" when they see the letter "F” instead of Fundamentalist, since the Salt Lake City LDS church is anything but a fundamentalist church. But it most certainly is both Fake and Failed.
Failed state/church
Apparently, the normal meaning of a "failed state" is that “A failed state is a state that has lost its effective ability to govern its populace.” Or “According to the political theories of Max Weber, a state is defined as maintaining a monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force within its borders.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failed_state
Those definitions are not a perfect fit for describing the government of God on earth, since that particular government is NEVER supposed to use physical force, but only persuasion. However, if that "government of God" totally abandons any effort to inspire people to heed the directives and actions and the lessons of the Scriptures, then it has truly failed in its mission.
My guess is that the church leaders have taken in about $1 trillion since 1896. Not too bad of a profit from a confidence game. But that is relatively unimportant. The fact that the Church is exploiting its opportunities to turn the church into a priestcraft piggy bank, while the leaders present themselves as being terrible examples of Christians to the members and potential members (while claiming otherwise, of course), makes the whole church program hostile to the true gospel of Christ. Illegitimately implementing the tax on religion (finalized in about 1960) which is the new tithing, means that the bad effect of the Church turning to priestcraft and taking $1 trillion from naïve members, means that they have actually done about $100 trillion worth of damage, or more, to the US society and the world since 1896. Or if we say it a different way, they have prevented at least $100 trillion in good being done in the name of Christianity, things that would lead us towards an ideal human society which we might call Zion, or the Millennium.
I would say that church leaders today, in cooperation with their predecessors beginning in 1896, have committed the worst crime in three centuries of human history by totally failing in their assigned mission to improve human society. They had, or could have had, the means to carry out their mission, but they abandoned that mission and took the money and ran.
Those church leaders have been active participants in, and contributors to, every evil which has befallen our society since that fateful year of 1896 when Wilford Woodruff, Lorenzo Snow, and others, decided that Nehor and Korihor had the right idea, and they should follow suit rather than follow the clear examples of Christ himself.
Perhaps we should start holding public funerals to mourn the passing of the real Christian Church in 1896. We have the Muslims and the Jews who mourn various religious losses, with those rituals being carried on for thousands of years. The Muslim yearly event is quite striking:
Perhaps we should create a “death of Christianity” memorial service and celebrate it at least once a year from now until the end of time (or perhaps the Second Coming). Maybe we could skip the blood-draining and blood-splattering part, although that is certainly graphic.Blood has been spilt as Shia Muslims marked the Day of Ashura, commemorating the death of the Prophet Mohammed’s grandson, Imam Hussein, with mass self-flagellation ceremonies.
Ashura Day: Why Shia Muslims mutilate themselves & their children (WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES)
https://www.rt.com/news/319654-ashura-blood-muslim-cut/
What was supposed to happen?
The original Church of Christ established Judeo-Christian standards throughout much of the world and created the Western world and its great defense of freedom.
The restored church was supposed to be the second dose or booster of freedom and righteousness, to add to the gains made to society through Christianity which brought us Western civilization, and push us on to much higher Zion or Millennial social standards, but instead it blew up on the launching pad, and it still sits there in smoking ruins, and no one has a clue as to how to rebuild it or relaunch it. Maybe an Elon Musk kind of person can fix this mess as he has fixed others (reusable rockets, Twitter, electric vehicles, etc.), but I don't see that on the horizon yet. Maybe we will ALL have to become Elon Musks to get things moving again.
We don’t even know what the truth is
Things have deteriorated so far, that essentially no one living today can even tell us what the gospel was that Christ taught while he was alive on the earth. Incidentally, I am quite certain that one can only explain it with action, not by a plethora of nice-sounding words. It appears that the church leaders and most of the members are willing to accept the atonement of Jesus Christ, but haven't a clue about what else he might have accomplished and intended during his life and thereafter. A very large segment of the leaders and church members today seem to believe that, except for the atonement, nothing changed between the Old Testament and the New Testament, and it is still Old Testament time in modern America. Christ taught a new gospel, but we have ignored it or twisted it into nonsense.
We read the words of our Scriptures and they are gibberish to us. We are mesmerized by the words, but completely miss his meaning. He taught us in parables, and we imagine that we understand the parables today, but we appear to be no wiser than most of the people at his time in understanding his complete meaning. Again, action is all that matters. Buckets of soothing words are meaningless. If we are not changing society for the better every day, in a major way, then we are no better than the pagans.
Paganism
Incidentally, I want to write another post which argues that today we truly are no better than the pagans. (And many DNA Mormons ARE pagans.) Later this year a book should be published entitled Pagan America: The Decline of Christianity and the Coming Dark Age, by John Daniel Davidson. That should be interesting.
The new church slogan "The Covenant Path" sounds suspiciously like the Tao or the Dao, "The Way" of Eastern religions such as Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. We are actually being instructed on how to become good Chinese pagan slaves, not free American Christians. The Asian “Way of Heaven" includes being properly obedient to the Emperor and all other authority figures, dead or alive. Today's church’s anti-Constitution globalist teachings and actions are the exact opposite of the personal freedom and resultant prosperity and multitude of good works implied by a Zion or Millennial society.
https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/ ... orship.htm
The solution (Jordan Peterson has it right in another current LDSFF post)
The antidote to the passive slave/victim religion taught by the LDS church today is voluminous and aggressive free-will charity-based action to improve society and improve the levels of freedom and personal responsibility.
