From the we have met the enemy and he is us department--In the 1970s LDS apostles Boyd Packer and Ezra Taft Benson pushed to have only faith-promoting versions of LDS Church history published, to which a historian at the time wrote: We are told that distorting LDS history can be justified because we are at war with the adversary and must also protect any Latter-day Saint whose testimony [is] in seedling stage. But such a public-relations defense may actually be a Maginot Line of sandy fortifications which “the enemy” can easily breach and which has been built up by digging lethal pits into which the Saints will stumble. So-called faith-promoting church history which conceals controversies and difficulties of the Mormon past may actually undermine the faith of Latter-day Saints who eventually learn about the problems from other sources. Interestingly prophetic, wouldnt you say? That is EXACTLY the problem that we in the LDS Church find ourselves in 30 something years later...
Posted on: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 00:42:47 +0000
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