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I loved some of Nate’s points in this post today: http://www.wheatandtares.org/18767/are-you-catholic-mormon-or-a-protestant-mormon/ Quote:W. H. Auden once said “truth is Catholic but the search for it is Protestant.”
That is a question people get asked in Ireland! I see Catholic and Protestant tendencies in our church – the Protestant things are our sacrament meetings, our prayers about the BOM/personal revelation and our testimony meetings; the Catholic things are the cult of the leader, the rigid hierarchy, the temples, the claim of direct and exclusive suthority.
Thanks for posting. I have studied Martin Luther and I am in awe of what he accomplished and the courage it took to nail the 95 theses or points of contention that he had with the Catholic Church, much of them do not matter today in reference to the selling of indulgences so that St. Peter’s could be built, thus ensuring the release from purgatory of deceased ancestors of those paying for the indulgences so that their ancestors could have salvation. But, what Luther did in translating the Bible into German, the common tongue of the people, was even more revolutionary, and asserting that priests should be permitted to marry, etc. It was heretical to translate the Scriptures that were in Latin into the common vernacular. To do so meant death. I have lamented that Brigham Young basically left the world with another Catholic Church, when I always saw Joseph Smith as a Luther-type person who was always challenging the status quo, and revealed more important truths. I consider myself more protestant in that fact that I love evangelical Christian music such as Jars of Clay, Mercy Me, Casting Crowns, Michael W. Smith, King and country, and Phillips, Craig and Dean. I wish we could rock out at church and sing praises to the Lord. I also have a huge obsession and fascination with the Bible, and would rather read historical/theological books on the New Testament and Old Testament (respectively in that order) than read LDS books on the Book of Mormon, or the Doctrine and Covenants. Thanks for posting. I am glad I am not the only one who has been thinking about it, and I agree with it.
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