like i said, just curious. i have brothers who liked to swear, just to get me agitated. but this was years ago. they are much more mature now, i assume.

I just know that someone, somewhere is going to say,”See, the church didn’t fire him, they just didn’t offer to renew his employment.”

There is no difference whatsoever.

Mr. Nielsen contradicted the church party line, then Mr. Nielsen got canned. So much for free thought.

Oh yeah, and ‘ass’.
Just thought I’d throw that out there for Mary – gotta stay at least as edgey as Steve EM…

But, I’ve been in wards where for years, the Ward Mission Leader and the full time missionaries are truly “Reactivation Specialists”, even to the point where full time missionaries had home teaching routes with all of the less active members on their list!!!

A good illustration where being a fraction of a degree off course can lead to a completely different direction.

I just feel the longer we let that false doctrine propagate, the worse it will get. Funny how it all starts our so innocently.

This reminds me of the appeal procedures for church discipline or termination of employment: Well, we said you can appeal, but we didn’t say when we’d hear your appeal or that we’d abide by any rulings that go against us.

The Lord can’t be please with this continued duplicity.

Don’t worry I don’t intend to leave or stop tithing just yet. But it’s difficult when our top leaders don’t seem to even try to be honest in their dealings with their fellow man, or impose that standard on the middle management of the church.

I entertained the idea of inserting my entire post in the title, but in the long run decided to go with a vaguer title with some content in the post.