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Date Posted: 20:26:28 03/26/11 Sat
Author: George
Subject: Re: A New Hymn written with the CofC in mind
In reply to: Lois 's message, "Re: A New Hymn written with the CofC in mind" on 18:57:32 03/26/11 Sat

>>>>>>i am reminded of aesop and the fox and the
>>grapes...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>john
>>>>>>
>>>>>John, the whole thing with the CofC is a fable, all
>>>>>right, but it is more like the Dog in the Manger.
>>The
>>>>>CofC does not want to believe in anything the RLDS
>>>>>church did, but it will bend over backwards to make
>>>>>certain that no one else gets to use the name.
>>>>>
>>>>>Jesus said something about it, too. "You shut the
>>>door
>>>>>to the Kingdom of Heaven in people's faces, but you
>>>>>won't go in yourselves." The people to whom he was
>>>>>speaking filed any number of lawsuits in a given
>>>>>month, were always the plaintiffs, and studied the
>>>law
>>>>>constantly looking for loopholes to get and
>maintain
>>>>>secular power and wealth while putting on a
>>religious
>>>>>circus.
>>>>>
>>>>> George
>>>
>>>>what would you have suggested that the rlds/cofc do
>>in
>>>>the face of this entire mess george? negotiations
>>>>didn't work, requests didn't work, threats (cease
>and
>>>>desist orders) didn't work.
>>>>
>>>>what would you have done in the same circumstance if
>>>>someone were unlawfully using something that
>belonged
>>>>to you? your identity?
>>>>
>>>>would you be saying things differently if the devon
>>>>park group had won? how? why? is there a bias you
>>>>need to examine?
>>>>
>>>>john
>>>
>>>john,
>>>
>>>I was baptized into the Reorganized Church of Jesus
>>>Christ of Latter Day Saints when I was eight years
>>old.
>>>
>>>The c-not-of-c is not the Reorganized Church of Jesus
>>>Christ of Latter Day Saints.
>>>
>>> >>>href="http://www.angelfire.com/la3/storyteller/seriou
>s
>>/
>>>1.html">http://www.angelfire.com/la3/storyteller/seri
>o
>>u
>>>s/1.html
>>>Apostasy and the Community of Christ
>>>
>>>Lois
>
>>that would be your limited opinion lois... or another
>>lie, depending on how one wanted to look at it...
>>
>>john

Don't worry about what John thinks, Lois. It is indeed all in the way you look at it.John is able to see "the truth" in all those wagonloads of stuff coming out of the CofC barn because he is looking through a kaleidoscope. The only "truth" to be found there would be by using DNA testing to find out which cow each load came from. Then the bare facts would come into focus.

The Temple in Independence should have been designed to look like a snowflake. After all, the CofC is never the same church two days in a row. Like snowflakes, each official story is always completely different.

We should call the bookmakers and ask what the odds are on bets as to how long it will be before the CofC declares that W. Grant McMurray founded the church. At that time, we'll hear that the CofC is a 21st century church, not one hopelessly mired in the 19th century, because it derived its name during his administration, and entered its primary mission field: Rehabilitating antisocial and unacceptable behavior by artistic use of Newspeak.

After all, getting rid of the association with the 1830 church helps jettison the BoM (at least in fantasy,) and the new 21st century origin story will allow the jettisoning of the Bible and any "revelations" prior to W. Grant's administration.

George

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