Reuben wrote: ↑Thu Aug 09, 2018 2:46 pmNot Buying It wrote: ↑Thu Aug 09, 2018 9:15 am Elder Pearson is so full of crap. "Independent voices" aren't needed to "sustain faith" - the Brethren need to quit being such damn cowards and address the issues that are causing people to leave rather than relying on the incompetent, amateurish bungling of FAIR Mormon to try and address these issues. [...]
We need "independent voices". Bullpuckey. We need the Brethren to step up and do their damn job.
They need to do one more thing besides truthfully address the issues: make activity in the church a net positive for members anywhere on the belief spectrum.
A funny thing happens the moment your belief falls below a certain threshold. I'll call it the "crap threshold," because it's the point at which you say to yourself, "You know, they all might just be full of crap." Well, once your belief falls below the crap threshold, you start doing cost-benefit analysis, and restricting it to this life. And it just so happens that right now, if the cost of leaving isn't too great due to family pressure, staying active tends to be a net negative. You might also start doing cost-benefit analysis for other people, and find large demographics who are getting the shaft.
If the Q15 were to step up and do their damn jobs, hundreds of thousands of Mormon testimonies would immediately plummet below the crap threshold. Currently, that would be ruinous for the church.
The “crap threshold”. That’s a brilliant way of conceptualizing it.