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It still fascinates me - the hate and violence - Page 2 - Mormon Doctrine Studies - Posted: 16th Nov, 2008 - 8:51pm
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I do have a friend of mine who was a former FBI agent that was out of the blue, not looking for a job, and was actually contacted by the Church office Building. He did not submit an application. They contacted him. He was offered a job, and he took it. He has worked for church security for over 10 years now.
| Rather off topic, but... I do have a few stories from him, but maybe I will have to upgrade my membership and share them in that thread. I think there is a need for FBI agents protecting our church and its leaders in these last days. |
 Message Edited...JB: A Post cannot be made solely in the off topic. I fixed it as some of what you mentioned is relevant. |
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It still fascinates me - the hate and violence and threats that are being aimed at the LDS church and its members.
If the tables were turned and the church members were behaving this way, we would be prosecuted to the full extent of the law for hate crimes and vilified in the media.
Yet, you don't see the media saying *anything* negative about these horrible acts against the church.
Brigham Young once said:
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| I am satisfied that it will not do for the Lord to make this people popular. Why? Because all hell would want to [be] in the church. The people must be kept where the finger of scorn can be pointed at them. Although it is admitted that we are honest, industrious, truthful, virtuous, self-denying, and as a community, possess every moral excellence, yet we must be looked upon as ignorant and unworthy, and [as] the offscouring of society, and be hated by the world. What is the reason of this? Christ and Baal can not become friends. When I see this people grow and spread and prosper, I feel that there is more danger than when they are in poverty. Being driven from city to city or into the mountains is nothing compared to the danger of our becoming rich and being hailed by outsiders as a first-class community. |
Journal of Discourses, Vol. 12:272
And what's been happening the past 50 years or so? The church has been becoming more accepted by the world, for humanitarian efforts, community involvement, and so forth. And generally "flying under the radar" of the press. With this singular event, the Mormons are back in the limelight in a very negative way. The "finger of scorn" returns, as it were.
I'm certain that more hatred and violence will come. Prop 8 lit a match under the GLBT community, and they are -- for now at least -- on fire for their cause.
At a regional single adult event yesterday, there were priesthood brethren standing guard outside the building, watching out for us. Very unobtrusive, but they were there. That speaks volumes to me.
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