do you think lucifer mourns?

Months back, there was a lesson for children about Joseph Smiths polygamy, complete with kid friendly illustrations, positioning it as a good thing commanded by god.

They recently published a letter from former prophet/president of the church John Taylor that says, essentially, that polygamy is a commandment and requirement for salvation that will never be done away with. (I’m paraphrasing, look it up for details). Also worth noting is that the mainstream LDS church swore this letter didn’t exist while polygamist offshoots insisted that it did… and now the LDS church quietly reveals that yeah it exists and they had it the whole time. (Typical. 🙄)

what if this is it. the beginning of the second coming.

I generally ground myself by remembering that the end times prophecies are intentionally vague about things that are common occurrences. it's why "wars and rumors of war" and "natural disasters" and "increased wickedness" are universally applicable via human experience and assertion that a specific faith is correct.

things get worse and better all the time in various and different ways. people exacerbating the hard conditions of the world to bring about the end times are not the same as those prophecies coming true.

the way you decolonise missionary work is by not doing missionary work

the way you decolonise missionaries is like this:

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"but we need to go to Ethiopia (one of the oldest christian countries in the world) to make them the right kind of christian!"

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jaguars

"but..."

My sil is frustrated that at UVU people see she's active and assume she's homophobic. My mom is hurt on behalf of her friend who's child is obviously transitioning but won't come out to her. My brother doesn't understand why it took me an entire year and being two states away to tell him I was queer.

Then joking about Mormonism with nevermos is like walking a fine line between being drawn into a lengthy conversation about your religious trauma or getting defensive over your own past self and your friends and family who are still in the church because they’ve hurt you but you love them and no one gets to make fun of them without having felt that love or that grief, yknow?

I'm not one to post fundraisers, my followers know this, but if you can spare a few dollars to give to this incredible organization I would be so grateful

I grew up in an environment that encouraged black and white thinking. I grew up knowing to fear hell. I grew up knowing Jesus could come back at any moment and if I was sinning I was fucked. I grew up knowing that God had access to all my thoughts at all times. I grew up learning that all sins are equal to god, that lying is the same as murder, that having an unkind thought was the same as violence. And I grew up terrified of questioning things because questioning the lord and questioning the authority the lord put in place (church leaders and parents) was from Satan, and giving into Satan would send me to hell.

when I was seven

I begged to the sky

is there a way you could finish my life?

kids at this age don't get judged for their sins

I want to return to you void of my sins

when I was seven

I asked him all night

was there a way he could finish my life?

was there an out I could offer to take

to wash clean my hands of mistakes I will make?

when I was seven

I cried at the church

only a week until pureness is purged

on saturday morning I'll start being seen