Fighting a Losing Battle
Good news (un)faithful readers and podcast listeners! Your diligent work on the Web is starting to show returns. Mormon "apostle" Melvin Russell Ballard wants the faithful to step up the blogging!
Before you get too excited imagining the hoards of devoted young believers falling over themselves to follow your counsel, consider the humble numbers of this single blog. Last year, the Eight Hour Lunch Podcast was downloaded 14,582 times. Since January 1, 2007 this single site has served over 33,530 pages. And I've done a piss-poor job of keeping it current.
Your days are numbered. Show some dignity and bow out while there's still a chance of history regarding you kindly.
“We cannot stand on the sidelines while others, including our critics, attempt to define what the Church teaches.”Well, I've got news for you Melvin, your church doesn't have a leg to stand on even as you define it. As one of your sincere and devoted critics please allow me to congratulate you for arriving (albeit embarrassingly late) to the party.
Before you get too excited imagining the hoards of devoted young believers falling over themselves to follow your counsel, consider the humble numbers of this single blog. Last year, the Eight Hour Lunch Podcast was downloaded 14,582 times. Since January 1, 2007 this single site has served over 33,530 pages. And I've done a piss-poor job of keeping it current.
Your days are numbered. Show some dignity and bow out while there's still a chance of history regarding you kindly.
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I firmly believe that asking the flock to participate in blogging is going to have the opposite effect they are looking for.
People have their own take on Mormon doctrine, and if they decide to share something that isn't "official" the church won't have any control over it. When someone calls the blogger on it, they will have to research their sources, right? Either they will realize they don't know the church as well as they thought they did, or they will find themselves at odds with people with the actual facts.
It's not going to help matters for the church, it's going to make it worse. Good for people like us, who want nothing but the truth.
Exactly. I can't help but believe that more communication will ultimately be a good thing, but not for LDS, Inc.
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