Spoon-feeding
Creates Dissatisfaction
Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 11:40 AM
Subject: Re: [PatriotSaints] Three Pillars of LDS Apostasy
you've done a good job, Sterling.
As a member and local leader I too often feel oppressed by the old
fashioned authoritative way of having the things done; Too much pressure is put on members which
does not compensate for a lack of curiosity about facts like: lack of attraction of the church,
sharp decrease in conversion rates (so called missionary work), double percentage of single
adults, actually desocialized individuals, in my ward compared to national percentage in
adult general population, incredible numbers of mental problems in membership, most often denied.
Dementation or typical psychiatric syndroms can be called slight coping problems. We're no longer
at a time of shortage of knowledge and information. At work and in family, the leadership does not
look like at church, it has become participative along the years, less emphatic, more sensitive.
Many drop-outs are like non-voters: they vote with their feet, but the higher authorities are
still very reluctant to interview the unsatisfied and learn by earnest investigation, listening
and observation. We are unease, yet we trust the restoration, the prophet Joseph Smith, B. Young,
those who said mormonism encompasses all the truth.
We'll have to pray and study more, and do good works as a guaranty
that we don't mock God and that he will be pleased to help us find the mighty thoughts, and the
mighty virtues.
Michel
