The Weirdo Lives Here

"my nephesh is only full of troubles, my life lured into the next one" —ps 88::3

"he keeps me in this realm of loss" —lamentatios 3:6

"let me know, lord, the measure of my mornings. let me know how fleeting my life is" —ps 39:3

"look from me now" —ps 39:13

"you'll never look off from me? or leave me lonely? (wish you would)" —job 7:19

"i'll never see the lord now" —is 38:11

"i'm over it, lord ... take my life" —1 kings 19:4

"if this is how you'll treat me, (lord): kill me" —num 11:15

“Members of the Church should not belong to bridge or other type of card clubs, and they should neither play cards nor have them in their homes. By cards is meant, of course, the spotted face cards used by gamblers. To the extent that church members play cards they are out of harmony with their inspired leaders. Innocent non-gambling games played with other types of cards, except for the waste of time in many instances, are not objectionable.”(Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, 2d ed., p.113)

In the 1990’s attitudes started to relax. That’s when my family first got playing cards and learned a bunch of games to play with them from other church goers and visiting family members. But other families at church still didn’t allow their kids to play games using the face cards.

does "God" have a penis?

Imagine always being pregnant with literally billions of souls for eternity

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Jesus art is by @wolfythewitch

The goal of it is to have audiences laugh at the way white American Christianity views and treats outside groups, especially those in non-white countries, and then walk away thinking "oh jeez, I do some of those silly things myself. Better fix that!" Instead, by choosing Mormonism as their "stereotypical white church" they solidly prevent any mainstream Christian from seeing themselves in the story. It then becomes "look at how ridiculous those Mormons (who I already hate) are! Glad I'm not like them at all!" And they walk away feeling superior and never once looking inward except to say how much better they are than the pretend Mormons on stage. So already it encourages the exact type of bigotry and self importance that it wants to discourage.

And then! It only depicts people of color as ignorant, violent, and diseased. You know, like a racist would. Now you COULD argue that it's supposed to be from the racist white character's perspective so of course they would appear that way. But here's the thing, narratively that only works if you, at any point say, "hey, actually this stuff isn't true". Otherwise, you're just doing racist shit.

And here's the rotten cherry on the whole shit cake: fans keep saying "yeah it's offensive, but the music is so catchy!" You know what else had catchy music? Blackface minstrel shows. Shit's still racist.