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brothermouse · 1 month
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*professional wrestling announcer voice* and it looks like it's all over folks. The power team up of Sin and Death has won and the crowd is not happy about it. And, yep, S&D are strutting around the ring, taunting the crowd. Just bad sportsman in my opin-Wait...do you hear..what is that? Is that theme music? Who's song is that? Wait.. is that? It couldn't be! It is! JESUS CHRIST! IT'S THE SON OF GOD! WE ALL THOUGHT HE WAS TAKEN OUT BY PONTIUS P. PILOT THANKS TO THAT SURPRISE BETRAYAL BY JUDAS, BUT HE'S BACK! HE'S ON THE TOP ROPE! AND HE! LOOKS! PISSED!
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mormonmew · 22 days
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Hello Queerstake!!! (an introduction of me)
I've been on Tumblr for years as @mewuniverse (Mew for short usually) and decided that I wanted to make a sideblog to interact more with the LDS people that are here too! I'm a member of the LDS church, born and raised in that church. I am a woman married to a man with a kid of our own, and I figured out relatively recently that I'm somewhere on the asexual spectrum (ace, demi, I use both labels lol). Still, I see myself as more of an ally and want to be able to understand the stories of those in the LGBTQ+ community, including those that are currently and were formerly LDS.
Hopefully you'll see both posts from me and reblogs from the rest of the queerstake here, and I'm glad to be here with y'all and have perspectives of the LDS church that aren't just the strictly conservative ones I grew up around.
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isalisewrites · 27 days
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Listen, it's that time of the year again! The biannual bullshit in the form of 10 hours over the course of two days called the Mormon General Conference has begun and I'm forced to watch since I'm a PIMO Mormon (physically in, mentally out). This means a bit of an interruption to my usual writing, fandom, Tomarry, Legend of Zelda, and general gay shenanigans.
However, this is the first time where I'm emotionally and spiritually in a powerful, stable place and I'm officially unaffected by these talks. (I still like to bitch about them, tho, haha) They don't wound me like they have done before. They hold no power over me now. I remember how deeply affected and spiritually wounded I felt in April 2022, weeks before my "shelf" would break and my faith finally deconstructed to its end. But even General Conferences afterwards, I would still feel sickened by the talks.
I'm free of their spiritual shackles on my heart and soul.
I'm sorry, but it's become glaringly obvious that these men have nothing truly good to say. When you're in it, you don't see just how vapid and empty their words are. There's nothing of substance. There are no solutions. No. Reading scriptures and praying and "following the covenant path" are NOT solutions.
These men have no power and no authority. They are too old to make true change, just like the politicians in our government. We're taught they have the power of god, but they don't. Sorry, gentlemen, but you're nothing in comparison to my own uterus, which ACTIVELY wants to kill me. I don't fear you. I have no fears. You are weak in the face of my unwavering strength and peace as an unbeliever, who has no absolute answers about the nature of life and death.
I have peace you can't comprehend.
After all, if there is an afterlife where we must face our actions with our fellow humankind, I'm confident in my personal integrity. I am filled with sass, but I am kind and loving. Those who know me know this.
You... however... there is need for concern.
After all...
Where is your integrity when you protect and hide the vast variety of abusers?
Where is your integrity when you actively suppress women, demoting their status to ONLY wives and mothers?
Where is your integrity when you hate and turn on your LGBTQ+ siblings and deny them access to your heaven?
Where is your integrity when you lie and hide the dark truths of the origins of Mormonism?
Where is your integrity when you point blank lie about the wealth accumulated, to the point the American government FINED you for it?
Where is your integrity when you use that wealth to buy commercial properties?
Where is your integrity in the lack of building homeless shelters, schools, parks, or whatever could enrich and protect the local communities?
Where is your integrity when you spend millions of dollars on gilded temples in favor of the dead when the living sit homeless, exposed to the elements and without food, in the streets a block from those doors?
True integrity is a strength of self. My integrity demands of me to call out the bullshit and the lies; it tells me to remain calm in face of those who refuse to see my true heart, who claim that I am the one without light. I remain unaffected when those I love lash out at me because I no longer align with their thoughts and beliefs.
If you cannot see my heart, then it's clear you're the blind one.
"Christian kindness is not a substitute for integrity."
This is a contradicting statement. True integrity cannot be without kindness and love. No kindness? No integrity. No exceptions.
True integrity is NOT where you avoid "criticizing the doctrine or the culture" or the leadership in Mormonism.
What hypocrisy.
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psalmlover · 6 months
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reminds me of my grandmas room
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dougielombax · 8 months
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*awakens in a cold sweat in the middle of the night in a state of bafflement and terror*
“Wh…MORMONS????!!!!!”
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Neil L Andersen:
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theexodvs · 2 years
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Domestic disciplinarians, Matthew 7:21-23 is about you.
Queer theologians, Matthew 7:21-23 is about you.
Collaborators with Rome, Matthew 7:21-23 is about you.
Collaborators with Salt Lake City, Matthew 7:21-23 is about you.
Dispensationalists and dual-covenant theologians, Matthew 7:21-23 is about you.
Non-missional churches, Matthew 7:21-23 is about you.
Parents who do not catechize their children and pastors who do not catechize their parishioners, Matthew 7:21-23 is about you.
Minimizers and deniers of the Trinity, Matthew 7:21-23 is about you.
Advocates of R2K, Matthew 7:21-23 is about you.
Christian nationalists, Matthew 7:21-23 is about you.
Christians who espouse men’s rights teachings, Matthew 7:21-23 is about you.
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unpackingexmo-blog · 1 year
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I think the church is afraid to provide actual informed consent about the temple because they know people wouldn't go if they knew what they were getting into. They're banking on social pressure to keep people going because that's the currency cults run on.
"I have to go through the weird ritual or I will be a disappointment to everyone!"
"I won't get into heaven unless I am obedient and jump through every hoop the group asks me to."
"I have to do the weird thing or else what will everyone think of me??"
Cult tactics 101.
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My dad kept saying "Laman and Lameuel" tonight for some reason, and kept getting annoyed that he wasn't saying it right and then...
My brother: Lamuel is their ship name
Our dad:......
Our dad: OH
Our dad: I thought you meant they were building a boat and I was very confused. "If Nephi can build a boat then we can too!"
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brothermouse · 2 months
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I’ve mentioned before that I’m in charge of the ward program, and for this Fast Sunday I thought I’d dig up some Abish art. Poked around the church’s website and pretty soon I found this illustration of Abish and the Lamanite Queen from a church magazine article from 2020 and I just had to use it because, I mean….just look.
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You guy get it, right?
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Multiple county and federal agencies are investigating reports of ritualistic child sexual abuse from as far back as 1990. Journalist Derrick Broze has been following the investigation and documented every insidious detail.
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lgbtq-archives · 7 months
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sachyriel · 7 months
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"Sound of Freedom" movie was always BS, but recently it came out that one of those involved was just using the Child Trafficking Narratives to make money for himself, the Mormon Church and get himself a higher rank in the church.
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Mormons aren't Christians, but Muslims are.
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lightdissolved · 1 year
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Teaching hate produces terrorists
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growingupmormon · 2 years
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Under the Banner of Heaven
“I bet you think your testimony is bulletproof, that you know our history, the Gospel, all our...truth. Let me tell you this. If you feel certain, that certain...You don’t know a thing sir.”-Allen Lafferty
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