Name of the church

So tired of the church making such a big deal out of their official stupid name. Hubris and arrogance is at the root I’m sure.

Your founding prophet invents mythological scripture replacing real Native American historical people with made up Judeo-Christians and calls main author of this new scripture Mormon. Then calls his new scripture “The Book of Mormon”. Then tries unsuccessfully to sell the book’s copyright. Then goes through 3 different names for his new church before settling on the 9 word mouthful we have today.

Nobody actually uses the full name because it’s too big a mouth full. It wasn’t the Devil who took the name of Jesus Christ out of the name it was the members at large. For years we all just called it “The Church” amongst ourselves. We never used the full name and we were always told by our leaders to avoid the vain repetition of the Lord’s name. Same reason given for calling it the Melchizedek priesthood. So we took out JC from the name first.

When outsiders asked us we would usually say the full name cause you’d confuse the hell out of people if you said “The Church” —- church what church? So you try saying the full name. Didn’t work because you’d still get a confused look cause every Christian church claims to belong to Jesus Christ. Then you say “Mormon” and people finally had a reference point. Long before Hinckley the TV commercials used to have the tag line saying COJCOLDS “the Mormons”. Otherwise it would be wasted advertising space.

Now they want to make such a big deal with JESUS CHRIST in big bold letters in the name everywhere. Like you’re going to out Jesus everybody else and act like you’re the mother of all Jesus churches.

Good luck. The MFMC is the least Jesus of any Christian churches by far.

Jesus was poor and spoke up for the poor and against the rich..LDS is the rich beyond belief to the point of hiding it in shell companies.

Jesus was against rules and regulations constantly criticizing the Pharisees for their rules based religious observance. Mormons have more rules to follow than any other Christian sect.

Other Christian churches that I’ve seen usually preach the words of Jesus from the pulpit on Sundays. The MFMC preaches the words of Joseph Smith and the current prophet plus other Q15s with a little bit of Jesus sprinkled in.

If the historical Jesus was real, and is the Son of God then I’m pretty sure he’d be pissed at the great corporation of SLC for appropriating his name and making such a big deal about it