Mormon Stories #1361: J Reuben Clark, Boyd Packer, and The Charted Course of the Church in Education
November 11, 2020
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as posted by the channelAs part 3 in my interview with groundbreaking Mormon journalist Lynn Packer (nephew of Boyd K. Packer), I want to share with you a fascinating 30 minute video produced by Lynn, which provides essential background information to understand the following:
1) The evolution of the LDS Church away from valuing thought, science, and scholarship (based on the influence of GA B.H. Roberts and others), and towards the prioritization of emotion-based orthodoxy and fundamentalism (based on the influence of J. Rueben Clark, Harold B. Lee, Joseph Fielding Smith, etc.)
2) The careers of both LDS apostle Boyd K. Packer and GA Paul H. Dunn,
3) The eventual backlash against science and scholarship led by Boyd K. Packer from the 1980s through today, which led to the intentional hiding of factual LDS Church history, and the punishment of scholars and thinkers (from the September 6 to modern excommunicants like myself).
This 30 minute video will provide important background for the subsequent 3 episodes with Lynn.
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