Posts tagged "Church"
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From Medium: Reasons I'd Be Atheist, But Choose to Be Religious
This is a long read, but well worth it. I wish I had written it. Everything I read in there is exactly my experience:
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Changes
Steve Evans over at By Common Consent has published a “Laundry List” of changes he would like to see the LDS Church make.
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Frustration
There are some attitudes that I witness over and over again that leave me exasperated and frustrated. Coming from the Mormon context, I routinely see these comments and attitudes on display:
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It is not the same
How often have we heard the admonition that we must follow the prophet because whenever he speaks, it is as if God’s speaking, because “it is the same”? I hear this very frequently, and every time I do, I am saddened at how we repeat the words of others without bothering to read the scriptures for ourselves.
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Suffering
The LDS Church has changed its doctrine on apostasy to now include those who “are in a same-gender marriage.” By extension, the children of such couples are also being punished: they can not be blessed in the Church, and in order to receive ordinances must disavow the marriage of their parents.
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The Well
- Now Joseph's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.
- There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.
- Jesus ... said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
- The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
- Art thou greater than our father Joseph Smith, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
- Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
- But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
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The Philosophies of Men
A couple of days ago I was driving in my car, and a thought very forcefully came to my mind:
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Breakthrough
I had a breakthrough recently.
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Not the real house
A beautiful summation of the false illusion of the eternality of the LDS Church from the Exploring Sainthood blog:
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Religious Certainty
This is another excellent blog post, this time about how shedding the idea of “religious certainty” can impact your beliefs. I identify very much with this.
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This is the church I seek
A CNN article on their “Belief Blog” has been going around recently. I’m glad I read it, because this resonated with my soul: