Symbolic Death and My Second Crisis of Faith

[vorlon13]

As for the (presumed) lack of "True Believers" in the hierarchy of the LDS org, consider the severe damage a "True believer" can do to the church (in it's current form) in this scenario:

God commanded the Mormons to be a record keeping people and they have done a great job in carrying out this task.  In the archives, amongst all the tons of records, it turns out are numerous diaries, some penned long ago by early Mormon pioneers.  Modern day Mormons on occasion ask to see a diary from an ancestor for various reasons, and then, please consider a "True Believer" working in the archive receiving such a request and how they would handle it;

"Why of course, I'll fetch that up for you right away!"

Now is that what actually happens when someone goes to the LDS archivists and makes such a request ?

Hell no!!


What happens is, the archivists will have to evaluate, in exquisite detail, just what's in that diary.  Even handwriting analysis might have to be done to verify who wrote in the diary.  And the reason is, there might be references in the diary to earlier, no longer current, versions of church revelations, dogma, edicts and/or teachings. And since the church maintains that such matters are never changed, releasing 'smoking guns' can be a significant problem.  Additionally, even in matters relating to day to day life, are church leaders of the past era referred to?  Are their activities mentioned? Even such prosaic details as to where and when they may have been buying groceries, for instance?  The problem being, there might be an official church publication citing that church leader on that date in a different locale and/or doing something other than what is noted in the diary.

Clearly, the church cannot have a "True Believer" in such a position, and obviously, the person(s) selecting an individual for that job cannot be a "True Believer" either because, again obviously, a "True Believer" might install another "True Believer" as an archivist!  Disaster will ensue !!!


When someone comes to the archivist and requests an old diary, the correct response will be something along the line of, "Well, thank you for your interest!  I will check and see if that material is available for you right away!"

And then, depending on who's asking, and what they are asking for, the materials may or may not be made available, but only after extremely diligent research and approval from higher ups, lest the church be embarrassed (yet again).




So you can now understand the very necessity at the highest level of the church, personnel responsible for records, church financial information, and virtually everything else, have to be extremely carefully selected.  "True Believers" can be used of course, but they need to be supervised extremely closely for fear of them making a grievous error in their innocence of knowledge of the churches true history of connivance, revisionism, rewriting, revising, changing, tweaking, erasing, and making up stuff from whole cloth.  And clearly, the folks running this 3 ring circus of deceit (such a harsh word!) need to be fully aware of precisely what is at stake and what has to be done to stave off upsetting the apple cart.


Don't think for a second that above a certain level of church admins, there is even 1 "True Believer". There is no way the church could function with such people running the show.