One Year Later, Bruce R. McConkie’s “Mormon Doctrine”: Buh. Bye.

Beliefnet.com ^ | May 30, 2011 | Jana Riess

[Colofornian]

From the article: This hyper-orthodox Molly Mormon friend was telling me, in her gentle Utah woman’s voice, that a Church general authority was not quite trustworthy as a source of information about the Church. Interesting. Boy, was she ever right. When I read the book I found numerous passages I considered offensive, and others that seemed flat-out wrong in their interpretation of the Bible.

But, Jana. That's Mormon leadership in a nutshell: Offensive...and...flat-out wrong in their interpretation of the Bible." What's new under the Mormon sun?

From the article: Yet I still worry that the book lives on like that stubborn, garrulous old great-uncle you try to avoid at family reunions. It’s given enduring legitimacy to McConkie’s racism, sexism, and strange interpretations of the Gospel.

Ya think? But that's typical Mormon output from its "apostles" -- "strange interpretations of the Gospel!" And McConkie, among MANY other Lds leaders, was indeed racist! Hey, Mormon "scripture" to this very day is racist...both in the Book of Abraham AND Book of Mormon.

This Mormon, Jana Riess, tries to downplay McConkie as like a "stubborn, garrulous old great-uncle you try to avoid at family reunions" and "just a member of the Council of Seventy."

What she doesn't mention is how McConkie, after he published his version in the 1950s and it was later revised in 1966 and beyond, was elevated to the grand Mormon status of "apostle."

She also doesn't mention that the book continued to be republished into the late 1970s under the umbrella of a church-owned publisher! (Meaning the Lds church was officially sanctioning it in more ways than one -- including quoting it significantly in its curricula!)

Also, the Lds church sanctioned the revision of the book as Harold B. Lee -- another Lds "prophet" Riess conveniently ignored -- said it was "OK" to publish as both Marion G. Romney and Spencer W. Kimball...a then-First Counselor to be elevated to Lds "prophet"...oversaw the revision and gave the "OK."

[Vigilanteman]

The denomination which I grew up in (ELCA) has changed their entire mission focus from preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ to promoting gay clergy, mass immigration of Muslims to America and other favorite left-wing causes.

And you think discontinuing the printing of a book that some Mormon church leader wrote more than 60 years ago is a crisis?

[Tennessee Nana]

Wasnt Jana Riess the mormon woman who wrote that other article about the “Twilight” series being full of Mormon themes???

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2732231/posts

Looks like Jana is on her way to breaking free from the falsehood and slavery of Mormonism

[Psalm 144]

Link is not working for me.

[Tennessee Nana]

Also, the Lds church sanctioned the revision of the book as Harold B. Lee — another Lds “prophet” Riess conveniently ignored — said it was “OK” to publish as both Marion G. Romney and Spencer W. Kimball...a then-First Counselor to be elevated to Lds “prophet”...oversaw the revision and gave the “OK.”
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Well after 1978 Harold B Lee was probably ignored

It didnt look good for the mormon PR to acknowledge anyone in trhe Mormon Corp who had been bigoted towards blacks recently...especially a morm on president and “prophet”

From Wikipedia on Harold Bingham Lee, 11th president of the LDS

It was Lee who blocked the LDS Church from rescinding the Negro doctrine in 1969, a move favored by Hugh B. Brown. In 1969, after McKay’s health failed, and some others within the church leadership thought the doctrinal basis for the exclusion of people of African ancestry from the priesthood was shaky, the remaining First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (minus Harold B. Lee, who was traveling) voted to rescind the racial exclusion policy; however, that vote was reversed when Lee returned and called for a re-vote, arguing that the policy could not be changed without a revelation. (Quinn, Michael D. The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power Salt Lake City: 1994 Signature Books Page 14)

When McKay died in 1970 Joseph Fielding Smith became church president and Lee was called as First Counselor in the First Presidency. He continued to gain practical experience for what was expected to be a long presidency of his own, he being decades younger than Smith.

However, Lee’s presidency proved one of the briefest in the history of the church, lasting from Smith’s death in July 1972 to Lee’s sudden fatal heart attack in December 1973.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

God don’t like racists

[Alex Murphy]

Last week marked the one-year anniversary of the quiet removal of Bruce R. McConkie’s compendium Mormon Doctrine from Deseret booktores. All references to it had already been expunged from the Gospel Principles manual brought back into use for priesthood and Relief Society in 2010. It is no longer officially recognized by the Church.

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“I know you, and I know you’re actually going to read that book,” she told me. “So I wanted to tell you that just because it is called Mormon Doctrine, and it was written by a general authority, doesn’t mean that everything in it is really what the Church teaches now. If you have any questions about anything, anything at all, just come and ask me.” This was confusing. This hyper-orthodox Molly Mormon friend was telling me, in her gentle Utah woman’s voice, that a Church general authority was not quite trustworthy as a source of information about the Church. Interesting.

With a heavy, if not solitary, dependency on the word "now".

[greyfoxx39]

Is this article satire???

[JSDude1]

The whole premise for an LDS church is absurd..espcially in light of the Truth (aka the revealed Word in the OT, and NT)!

J.S.

[greyfoxx39]

Excellent post, PY.

[Elendur]

good point. if she is a Mormon, with Mormon friends and relatives, then i think she is a courageous woman, to speak out, and i wish her well...

(and yes, certainly i would pray she is led to a Christian church that doesn’t teach other christian churches are damned to Hell. ...especially with the rapid expansion of Islam, we need to remember Jesus rebuking his disciples, and tolerating those who preached in his name. most of all, i pray for Christian unity. as it talks about in Acts and Corintians and Ephesians...)

[Colofornian]

Link is not working for me

Not sure what happened. Here it is: One Year Later, Bruce R. McConkie’s “Mormon Doctrine”: Buh. Bye.

[Colofornian]

Is this article satire???

Doesn't read that way.

Here you have Mormon grassroots telling other Mormon grassroots that what their sacred "apostles" say is untrustworthy.

Quite interesting!

[Psalm 144]

Ty!

[laotzu]

Let me help you:

Thanks for the correction. I am so with you. Let's get our pitchforks!!

Command us, Oh Colofornian!!

[laotzu]

I think you posted in the wrong thread of the ones I jumpstarted this a.m

This Mormon scourge has spread even further than I feared.

What should we do?