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Teen Titans enjoying Halloween by Gabriel Picolo.
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Being LDS on this website thatâs obsessed with finding fault in different groups of people means youâre subjected â semi-frequently, at complete random, and by random blogs so you canât follow a pattern back to one person to unfollow â to posts that are like
âMormonism is a cult because-" *insert a) something the church doesnât teach, b) a claim about how the church is controlling and forces its members to do things they donât make you do, like cut off contact with nonmembers or something similarly crazy, or c) completely innocuous thing thatâs completely normal for any religion to ask of its adherents*
âMormons are crazy because-" *insert a) something that has literally never been taught as doctrine ever that was either made up about us or spread by weird members in the past who didnât know what they were talking about and people held onto that instead of listening to corrections regarding it, or b) something taken wildly out of context or worded in a way to purposefully make it sound nuts and which makes way more sense if youâd actually bother to listen to someone try to explain it*
âExmo here, yeah the church is horrible because-" *insert a) personal experience with individuals doing xyz that is certainly unfortunate but has nothing to do with the church as a whole or its doctrine, or b) wild claims that you KNOW this person is lying about because you literally grew up in the same faith as they did and were taught the same things and you know theyâre spouting some serious garbage about what we supposedly believe but of course everyone is going to trust the person who talks like a cult survivor so thereâs nothing you can do about it*
And you sit there having to either ignore it (DIFFICULT) or find the courage to message the person who reblogged it to gently explain why the post is wrong (does not go well half the time).
No, the church does not fit the BITE model for a cult (literally the only few parts of the list you could say it matches are the few that are true of literally any religion and do not scream âcultâ). No, you do not need a lawyer to get your records removed, anyone offering those services is scamming you for money because you can literally just ask your local leaders to have it done. No, we do not genuinely believe that insane Bigfoot Cain folk story or anything else like it. And frankly, sometimes people who leave just lie. That happens. It does not make me brainwashed to say that someone who left the church and is spreading obvious crap about things we donât really teach or believe is indeed lying and itâs frustrating to no end that the automatic reaction from so many people is that you must be the crazy one, meanwhile youâre sitting there being gaslit about your own beliefs as they go âMormons teach/believe xyzâ âno we donâtâ âyes you doâ âwe literally donât thoughâ âshut up youâre just brainwashedâ â????â. Have you ever seen a divorced person spread bad rumors about their ex that are not true? Yeah.
(And before anyone goes, âHey, sheâs trying to invalidate the stories of people who left, thatâs clearly a cultist!â, Iâm referring strictly to people who make false claims about what we teach that can be easily verified as false. There are bitter people out there who do that. Iâm all for listening to people who have had bad experiences with other members in the church, absolutely nothing but sympathy and love towards those who have genuinely been hurt in one way or another, and yes there are cultural things especially in Utah that have needed or still do need shifting. But as always, the same is true of literally any religion or just any group of human beings in general because a lot of the time human beings kind of suck. The church isnât special for this. Itâs just as filled with flawed people who need to repent as any other group of people on the planet and thatâs no secret. Thereâs a reason weâre always encouraged by our leaders to continue to become better and to try to be more Christlike than we often are, and the vast majority of members are absolutely trying to live by that and itâs not fair to judge those millions of people by the ones who donât behave as they should. You can believe the stories of people who have had bad experiences without making out 16 million other people to be horrible. Everything would be a cult if the qualification for that was to have some bad apples in your midst.)
It doesnât take much to look at different sources to see if thereâs another side to a story or another explanation for something that sounds weird. You donât even have to look through church websites for it, you can literally just ask members if you know any. In fact PLEASE just ask us because I lose my mind a little more every time I see someone just looking at sources that are total confirmation biases against us. Ask faithful, practicing members if theyâre really forced to do xyz or ask them to explain something weird you heard. Weâre not exactly secretive or shy about explaining our beliefs (hence the missionaries lol), weâll do it. Heck, Iâve got anxiety through the roof about answering questions because Iâm scared Iâll word something poorly but even I will still do it, Iâd rather face my fears and respond imperfectly than let someone go around thinking something thatâs not true. As long as youâre asking genuinely out of curiosity to hear our perspective and not trying to just poke at our faith and be a jerk, youâll get people who are willing to answer you and have a reasonable discussion without trying to convert you or something.
Aaaanyway. If you couldnât tell, Iâve now seen two different posts from two different people today being negative about my faith, so. Iâm tired. If youâre so inclined please pray for my ability to feel close to Christ, have love for people I disagree with, and be patient with nonsense lol. Goodness knows I need help with that sometimes. Especially right now since I apparently had enough frustration in me to write this whole thing lol.
if you search âpornâ right now, you will go to porn hub, and you will see, on that very first page, videos that are sexist, racist, incestuous, fetishising lesbians, paedophilic, etc. this is the mainstream porn. this is the surface. that is what most of 96% of men saw and decided to keep looking. I donât say things I havenât checked and so I looked and literally the first video on pornhub offered to me was a role play of a guy fucking his stepdaughter. In my country 99% of men have watched porn. just near every man you ever meet will have watched women degraded and humiliated and fetishised. and they enjoyed it.
you will feel so alive again.. like so incredibly alive. i dont know when that will be but it will be. u are gonna feel so alive that ur cheeks hurt from smiling oh man oh man i promise that day is coming. you do have a future, you do have good things coming, and youâll survive everything thatâs thrown at you until you reach that day
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