General Conference · 1:41am Apr 7th, 2013
I don't understand. I never will.
I am told that there are good people in the LDS church, and bad people as well, and a doctrine that will reflect the reality of what is morally acceptable.
Keyword being will.
This is what I hear from the 'good' people.
The 'bad' people tell me that the doctrine will not change. That God has given us the rules and there is no negotiation, no reconsideration, no questions.
The 'good' people aren't talking about those people. They're talking about the people that hold onto prejudices based on the old doctrine. The racists, the bigots.
They don't see the 'bad' people I'm seeing.
Alternatively, if they do see them, they hope to God they die before they become prophet.
[image of the quorum of the twelve fighting to the last man for the presidency]
They can't say gay marriage.
What else could this "rising moral issue" that they vaguely allude to be?
The foster care system is not government operated. Stop lying and putting yourself above the state as a moral, familial, and financial guardian.
There was a time when we thought inter-racial marriage was a sin against God. For that matter, there was a time when we thought that because Cain killed Able, that meant that all of Cain's descendants were black so making them slaves was a-ok. Give it time, Roan, give it time.
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That's what I don't understand...
Why should I, at this time, allocate any resources to these people when they're presently wrong, and they say that there is no need to change?
I would support an organization that is willing to say "we might be wrong," instead of "there is no other option!"
I know people who still believe, and teach, about that skin curse crap. Those are the 'bad' people that 'good' people call out.
Every week my family goes to church and we receive a testimony about how women can rely on men for all their financial and spiritual needs, and the reason me will take care of them is so they can get to heaven and receive the grand flipping prize of creating their own world. Every time I question the church, my mother tells me that eventually, some day, women will hold the priesthood, and homosexuals will be recognized as human beings and not victims of some single-mother conspiracy.
Those For the Strength of Youth pamphlets list homosexuality as a sexual transgression, among the sins that land humans in the Telestial Kingdom, alongside murderers, traitors, and zealots (not apostates).
Maybe, come twenty years, the LDS church will have a modern understanding of reality... at this point in time, not then.
This isn't a question of when or how, though. The church does not offer an acceptable reality for me, and I can't accept their teachings under the belief that some day they might change that.
I know there's a lot of kids that identify with the villains of many stories because they're rebellious, but I swear to god everything Korihor said in Alma is pretty much everything I have to say about any church. I also would like to point out Korihor is often portrayed as either a savage man in tattered clothes or an effeminate homosexual, most recently being seen as both in a graphic retelling of Alma 30 made in the 90s.
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The way I see it, acceptance isn't going to happen unless you fight for it. It takes one person to make a difference.
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The church is true. The Book is blue.
If you want to chat, I'm here for you.