trauma/vent blog

Ancestry.com created a “Slavery Love Story” commercial between a white man and a black woman, and removes the commercial after backlash.

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https://religionnews.com/2017/12/21/mormons-perform-baptisms-on-holocaust-victims/

https://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/ldsagree.html (This one includes information on such baptisms all the way back to 2003.)

https://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/background-explanation-of-temple-baptism LDS itself admitting this has happened to hundreds of thousands of Holocaust victims.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/03/us/jews-take-issue-with-posthumous-mormon-baptisms-beliefs.html Oh look at that. Anne Frank was “baptized” in 2012.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mormons-still-baptizing-dead-jews-despite-agreements-to-end-practice I have to say, it doesn’t sound like many Mormons take that “getting in a crapton of trouble” thing seriously.

That apparently IS how it works. And how it HAS worked for over a quarter of a century.

If you want to attend the temple, you have to give ten percent of your money to the church. Every year, you meet with your bishop to make sure you’re paying a “full and honest tithe”. Even as a kid I payed, and went to meetings, and had to confirm to an old man that I was paying my tithing. And if you can’t afford it? there are countless stories where people choose giving money to one of the wealthiest organizations in america instead of eating. And guess what? the church doesn’t release a budjet or tax returns or anything, you just have to trust they’re not doing anything fucked up with the money you gave them instead of eating.

So excuse me, and excuse anyone else concerned that this kind of organization isn’t being honest when they say they’re doing what they’re told. I remember being told how important honest is, and then being told stories of church leaders lying by omission or twisting the truth to own people who won’t let them do what they want.

the Mormon church literally a month later:

love is not wrath

love is not vengeance

love is not allowing all of humanity to have an inherent flaw and then eternally punishing them for it unless they follow your specific set of rules

love is not commanded worship

love is not required, unquestionable loyalty

love is not everything the bible and the church tried to teach me it was

I can’t believe I used to pray

If a child is unhappy, angry, hurt, scared and upset with their parents, there’s a chance they have a good reason. There’s a chance this child needs your help more than their parents need your defending and excuses. Maybe you shouldn’t normalize parents hurting, neglecting, mistreating and scaring their child. Maybe it’s not the child being unreasonable.