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I received this in my email and it makes me sad. I really wish the top leadership had publicly released each new essay in the church magazines or given talks about them in GC, tucking them away was not a good answer in my opinion. http://imgur.com/gallery/FGc0vKUhttp://imgur.com/gallery/FGc0vKU” class=”bbcode_url”> Assuming she’s for real, this is pretty pitiful. I put this story in the same bizarre pile as another one this week about Beehive House tour guides being apparently clueless and unable to answer basic questions about BY’s polygamy. Really??? (That might vary guide to guide, but why? Why don’t they have a standard script? In the threads I read a reporting of church history people writing scripts that were pretty perfunctorily scrapped in favor of the simple, sanitized version.) My daughter said only three hands went up in Institute when they asked who was aware of differing First Vision accounts. It seems the only option now is power point presentations in General Conference.
I dunno….
Since I was completely ignorant of so much for so long, I can’t point fingers. But I sure would like others to not have to do this cold turkey.
I hear the person that posted the original message later found out that the essays were indeed published by the church. At that point they came to the conclusion that nobody is perfect and we’ll know in the next life. We all experience and deal with cognitive dissonance. I believe this is a good example of overcoming cognitive dissonance by creating new cognitions to overcome the initial conflicting thoughts but once the new cognition fails to hold its ground the continued cognitive dissonance is overcome by altering the importance of existing cognitions. Faith in the church, in the prophets, and in the fact that no one is perfect became more important while the implications of prophets practicing polygamy became less important.
I can look at that and go “yikes” because I’m not currently rooted in their conflicting cognitions, I’ve got my own crazy ideas. What worries me are the things that I am blind to.
I agree Mom. I think I could find some people in my stake, if not my ward, who would believe just as this woman did. I just don’t think it would be so hard for one of the top leadership to say in GC “We have worked hard on the essays and we have given them to you for whatever benefit you might gain.”
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