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I understand what you are saying, at least in broad terms (since I see my own view as a combination of faith and rationality), but I also don’t know how you’d go about finding a large enough community of people who would get it and want it to be able to make it effective for very many people – if what you are envisioning is substantively different than StayLDS. Can you explain how your desired community would differ from this one significantly – and why you chose to come here and describe it?
That’s the thing. To be honest, this isn’t the only LDS forum I posted this idea at. I suppose all I can hope for is that a more focused community/resource would earn its distinction. Zeno X wrote:That’s the thing. To be honest, this isn’t the only LDS forum I posted this idea at.
I am curious how other communities responded. Do you mind linking one or two? It would seem like a discussion like this would work better among a larger group of well-informed, intelligent but much more literal believers.
It almost sounds like you want to use a group platform to create flow charts for “rational” faith, like how to process the meaning of a religious experience in the correct and most logical way, or something like that. Again, it sounds kind of cool. I’m not sure how that ultimately works because I personally see religion as more of an opinion and experience than a fact. But that’s just where I am at right now.
What comes to mind when I think of things like this is an experience I had with a Primary President when I was a Cub Scout leader a couple years ago. She was a very intelligent and devout woman. I really respected her, but we didn’t see eye to eye on how to run things. I wanted to try and be supportive of her as a leader though. She did an ENORMOUS amount of work researching everything ever published by the Church about scouting, with the belief that it all formed a coherent plan (as in being orchestrated by God directly, etc.). She created these notebooks for the cub scout leaders, like an instruction manual, with cross-referenced conference talks and scouting manuals, etc. It was an inch thick.
I tried to be very nice about it. Like I said, I wanted to be supportive as a leader. But honestly, I don’t think everything ever said by a church leader about scouting is part of some master celestial plan organized by God. To me, it’s a lot of different leaders with their own opinions and agendas. THE DOTS DON’T CONNECT! They’re just a bunch of random points that don’t form a single, rational, cohesive message.
I already had years of experience in scouting. I knew how to run the program. I had official leadership training from the Boy Scouts. I thanked her and supported her, but pretty much never cracked open that manual. It all worked just fine.
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