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The thoughts of a mid-40s Mormon who lost his faith. PIMO. Studying anew and rethinking everything. Don’t trust me, I’ve been called a weasel for the destroyer.
Long post: /1 My brother left the church about 10 years ago, mostly because of issues with the Book of Abraham. Whenever he talked to me about it, I would try to give him an apologetic answer to remain faithful. But I never wanted to dive in deep myself to understand ...
1. Epictetus reminds us that “it’s impossible to learn that which you think you already know.” Because when you’ve always got answers, opinions and ready-made solutions, what you’re not doing is learning.
The idea that “we didn’t get Zion because the members were too prideful and sinful” is one of the most frustrating pervasive thoughts in LDS culture. It lets leadership off the hook and dumps the blame for failure squarely on the everyday Saints. Those everyday Saints that…
Establishing Zion was THE mission of the early church. When they couldn’t release themselves of pride and sin, they abandoned the mission. Subsequently, God placed the church under condemnation in 1834. There ls been little evidence to suggest that condemnation has lifted.
Whatever happened to Zion? Early Mormonism was obsessed with building a utopian society. Like, literally Zion. Joseph Smith taught that the Saints were to prepare the world for the Second Coming by creating a city of righteousness based on new scripture where “there were no…
We need a memorial award for this dude.
Owen Burns:, the 13-year-old old hero from Michigan, who saved his 8-year old sister from being kidnapped with a slingshot. He struck the kidnapper on the chest and head by firing marbles and a rock from his slingshot.
Hinkley wasn’t perfect. But, man, the LDS church seemed true when he was leading it.
Don’t let them gaslight you! Some members are now using the term “oral traditions” to rewrite history, claiming the doctrines you remember were never actually taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. But you know better. You heard prophets, seers, and…
If both prophets and scholars are fallible, which one should you trust more?