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Comment by xedrac

3 years ago

Huh? The current prophet doesn't "hate" it, and never said that God told him He doesn't like it either. You're putting your own words into his mouth. Let's be more precise in representing others, even if we disagree with them.

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jacurtis  3 years ago

> [he] never said that God told him

> You're putting words in his mouth

Ok... His exact words were:

"The Lord has impressed upon me the importance of the name He has revealed for His Church, even The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...the name of the Church is not negotiable.”

He later said (in the same speech):

“[The name] is a correction. It is the command of the Lord.”

I'm not about to split hairs. But he claims to be a prophet and represent God. Then he gets in front of the church at a worldwide conference, when he knows the most people will be watching and says "The Lord has impressed upon me...", "It is a command of the Lord".

You can call it what you want, but he is clearly implying that his deity told/impressed/inspired/commanded this change.

I'm not putting words in his mouth. These are the transcripts from his announcement. This is what he said. It is hard to interpret it any other way. He seems to be very clearly stating that this is directed by "the Lord".

yamazakiwi  3 years ago

While you're probably right the previous poster was over-exaggerating. Your accusation is meaningless without additional details.

To their point: When I was a kid, caffeine was looked upon very poorly. Now, every Mormon I know drinks Soda and in fact the amount of Soda Shops has exploded in areas known to have large LDS populations.