BYU Professor Dr. Ted Lyon

JM · #1 (**permalink**) 03-17-2008, 12:03 AM

Interesting insight into the wired world of Mormonism.

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BYU Professor Dr. Ted Lyon has served as an LDS (Mormon) mission president in Chile. He has also served as the president of the Chile Missionary Training Center. He is currently serving as Temple President in the Santiago Chile LDS Temple. In this interveiw, Dr. Lyon discusses some of the painful lessons learned from LDS missionary work in Latin America in the 20th century.

A former mission president to the Chile mission, BYU Professor Dr. Ted Lyon, has gone on camera and quite candidly talked about the completely dishonest practices of the church in that mission.

He admits that the activity rate there is 10-11%!!!!!

He talks about when he arrived as mission president that they had what they called "2 hour baptisms" and they were proud of it, and "made up baptisms" where they would simply make up names of baptized converts.

He also said there was 210,000 members that the church could not locate, and this puzzled him and he suggests that perhaps the names were made up..

This whole thing is sooo troubling on so many fronts. He even admits that the 13 million number was misleading as there is probably only 4 million active members.

I would like to ask him WHY the records department HAS NOT removed all of those membership records that he knew was obtained with dishonest means.

Later, completely unrelated, he rambles on about his first self induced emotional epiphany when he was 16 or 17 and how he always goes back to that experience when his faith faced challenges. Odd that a full grown educated man would trust his immature feelings...

Annnd later on he talks about why there is so much CONTROL over what is said by the leaders and how and IF it is disseminated.

OH oh oh "Rough Stone Rolling" is mentioned and they talk about "INOCULATION" for the members and tell the truth and whole truth of mormon history.. because like his own father taught, they don't want a 30 year old member finding out something odd about mormon history that WOULD CAUSE THEM TO LEAVE THE CHURCH.

Watch the whole thing.. amazingly open and VERY telling.

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