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- Dec 12, 2022
Eh. You see what we want you to see. Have things changed? Yes. Are we still the Mormons? Very much. And we always will be.@WelperHelper99
Assuming you're aware of this,
How do you feel about the direction of the Church in seemingly trying to be more Protestant-like (allowing crosses, not wanting to be called Mormons, downplaying doctrinal differences)...
I think its not my issue. I pay my tithing. Thats where it ends for me. Personally I haven't seen issues on the ground level. I've lived in multiple states, the wards are ran fine as they always have been.The ongoing financial scandals of the Church...
And the status of funding?
That last one may be news to you and I don't know much about it, but something I've come across is that many disgruntled Mormons say that the Church centralized all funding in the 70s (?) and basically started dumping the money into investments and vanity project temples, choking resources off to the actual congregations.
The Church is Mormonism. To have "reform" as you call it, some one else would have to claim to be Prophet. The FLDS tried that, and they are nutjobs. The only other avenue is a Prophet themselves. I see no reason. The Church is still the Church.They also brought in advertising men to help with how they ran the Church.
Unlike with the mainstream denominations, I think that you cannot have a meaningful Mormonism without the Church, because the concept of there being a single unified Church is so integral to the faith that the legitimacy of it falls apart. Which means that a "Mormon Reformation," a Mormon Protestantism, would be unacceptable, the reform has to come from within. (This is also another thing I've changed in feelings about, when I was younger I, like many converts, liked the idea of there being a One True Church. Nowadays I'm openly hostile to it. Unlike with Catholicism, though, Mormons have been victims in this world, not victimizers, so I don't have a grudge against them. I think that's also one reason I care so much. I see people having a casual bigotry towards them - will speak about them in public in ways they'd never dare dream to speak about other religions - and it's gross when they're the only people to have had an actual extermination order issued against them in this country.)