Biggest changes in the church in your lifetime

[Hagoth]

Here are some things I was actually taught in church when I was young, vs. what the church says about them today. Hmm.

Temples:
Then: The endowment was an immutable revelation from God. Denial of origins in Masonry. Masonry was actually a degenerate imitation of the true endowment of the Temple of Solomon that was perfectly restored in these the latter days.

Now: Oops, even the Masons now reject the antiquity of the temple ordinance. Let's rip out as much as we can. Problem: you can't get rid of all of it without completely reimagining the temple. Result: a nasty, clunky hybrid.

Lamanites:
Then: Native Americans are the direct descendants and "principle ancestors" of the BoM Lamanites. The righteous ones are already beginning to turn white, like us good Mormons, as predicted by the BoM, and they will now become a huge and powerful part of the church and save the constitution.

Now: We don't know how or where to look for Lamanites. We assume they were "among the ancestors" of Native Americans. Let's just say they were here but every trace of them got stamped out, unlike all of the other people who were here.

Americas:
Then: A chosen land kept separate from all people, consecrated for the arrival of the BoM people. Originally the Eden of the Bible, it was separated during the Noahic flood to isolate it.

Now: The Americas have been densely populated by Siberian descended people since millennia before BoM times, to the degree that the DNA of the BoM people was entirely swallowed up. And still, somehow, Adam and Eve were the the first people, living in an America that was already long inhabited by others.

Book of Abraham:
Then: An actual first-person account written by the hand of Abraham almost 4000 years ago.

Now: An Egyptian religious document written 2,000 years after Abraham, but it inspired Joseph Smith to write down what it should have said if it really were written by Abraham.

Seerstones:
Then: Joseph translated with the ancient Urim and Thummim spectacles. People who used "peep stones" were charlatans and tools of Satan. As proof of this, Joseph Smith had Hyrum Page's seerstone crushed into dust. Rumors of Joseph using a rock in this way are anti-Mormon lies.

Now: Yup, Joseph used a rock in a hat alright, but it was a good and holy thing; just like an iPhone. Shame on you if you thought it was an occult practice (unless it was done by anyone besides JS).

[wtfluff]

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