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Something like 20-ish years ago, the Church tried to get people to use the correct pronunciation of “Ensign”. It still strikes me as funny. I’m not really a sarcastic, eye-rolling person, but I never bothered to learn the ‘correct’ pronunciation and I still call it the “ENsun”. I still hear “Ephriam” instead of “Ephraim” and even more so, I hear “Jarius” instead of “Jairus”. Maybe the Church… er… God… should get us to correct those.
ETB called it the “Book of Marmon”.
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ETB called it the “Book of Marmon”I love the Marmons so much.
mom3 wrote:
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ETB called it the “Book of Marmon”I love the Marmons so much.
Maybe Gawd told him to say it that way.
I say that instead of focusing on our name, we focus on our actions. Most know nowadays “LDS” or “mormon” is an informal reference, not actual name of church.
God goes by many names, I’m sure he is cool with his church having a few.
Let’s worry about the policies and actions that show who we are.
dande48 wrote:
… For some reason, it just didn’t sit right with me. It’s like they were trying to choose their own nickname. …
It’s like that episode of Big Bang Theory. Howard is doing his best to convince the other astronauts to give him the nickname “Rocket Man” but it ends up not working.
In that light I think I’ll start calling it The Church of Fruit Loops.
HE’S BACK!!! nibbler wrote:
dande48 wrote:
… For some reason, it just didn’t sit right with me. It’s like they were trying to choose their own nickname. …
It’s like that episode of Big Bang Theory. Howard is doing his best to convince the other astronauts to give him the nickname “Rocket Man” but it ends up not working.
In that light I think I’ll start calling it The Church of Fruit Loops.
…he’s only partially back….I’m waiting for the Avatar to make the appearance!!
😆 “Church of Fruit Loops”….you know…it’s a good thing you’re not in charge of the naming department
I’m starting to wonder if RMN will be the kind of prophet to add one more section to the D&C…maybe something about a name change and add scripture around it…whatta ya think?
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:clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: It will never change We will always be known as Mormons
Accept it and move on!
There are bigger fish to fry
While restored might sound good to the head honchos, it also has the meaning of doing up something old and battered… restoration puts me in mind of someone working for years on fixing up an old automobile which barely works when they get it running. Not the image they intended. Really no idea why they fear being called Mormon. I had a doctor’s appointment recently. The church came up and I mentioned I was Mormon. They knew straight away what I meant. If I’d said “Latter-day Saint” then they would have to think about it for a couple of seconds. In this part of the world that phrase is so rarely used so has low name recognition. LDS or Mormon though – it’s all good.
But that short name? There are a number of Churches of Jesus Christ, or – even more common one – Churches of Christ, which vary between happy clappy evangelical ones to low key Protestants to authoritarian (cultish?) ones to a white supremacist one founded by KKK members:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Jesus_Christ%E2%80%93Christian Quote:The Church of Jesus Christ–Christian is an American Christian Identity, white supremacist church, which was founded in 1946 by Ku Klux Klan organizer Wesley A. Swift. Swift was the son of a Methodist Episcopal Church, South minister and is considered a significant figure in the early years of the Christian Identity movement in the United States
Quote:Church of Jesus Christ may refer to:
Church of Jesus Christ–Christian, a white-supremacist church founded by Ku Klux Klan organizer Wesley A. Swift
Church of Jesus Christ at Armageddon, commonly known as the Love Family, a communal church founded in 1968 by Love Israel
Church of Jesus Christ in Madagascar, the national church of Madagascar and the country’s second-largest Christian denomination
Church of Jesus Christ, known as Harshmanites, a small pacifist church in Illinois with Methodist origins
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Church of Christ, Scientist, also known as Christian ScienceIglesia ni Cristo (Filipino translation for “Church of Christ”), an independent church originating in the Philippines
United Church of Christ in the Philippines, the largest Protestant group in the Philippines
United Church of Christ – Congregational in the Marshall Islands, the largest religious group in the Marshall Islands
United Church of Christ, a mainline Protestant denomination in the United States amalgamated from four congregationalist groups in 1957 (see also Christian Connexion)
Rusty92 wrote:
It will never changeWe will always be known as Mormons
Accept it and move on!
There are bigger fish to fry
:thumbup: This. Nothing wrong with the name (other than sounding like “moron”).Does this make us all ex-Mormons? 
To me this sounds like the epitome of straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel (Matthew 23:24). Seriously, of all the things in the world to worry about or try to improve, you expect me to believe that this is what the “Lord” chose to impress upon your mind? Sorry President Nelson, I’m not buying it; even if I wanted to play along simply for the sake of entertaining the idea it still just sounds way too far out-of-character for Jesus as described in the Bible. [Admin Note: A paragraph questioning Pres. Nelson’s motive and attributing the change to that motive was deleted.]
But the remaining obvious advantage of “Mormon” and “LDS” over any of the suggested alternatives is that they are short, fairly easy to remember, and adequately identify who or what exactly you are talking about. By contrast, there are so many different Christian churches that calling it “the Church” is practically worthless to outsiders where LDS are a small minority because they will have no idea which church you are talking about. And asking people to say or type out “the restored Church of Jesus Christ” much less the full official name is way too long and tedious by comparison. So it seems like this will mostly serve as yet another inconvenience to the few people that will actually pay attention to this and honor the request just because Nelson said so and it is unlikely to ever widely catch on the way he seems to hope.
Old Timer wrote:
Does this make us all ex-Mormons?
I was born a Mormon. I’m gonna die a Mormon. I don’t care what Nelson has to say about it.
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