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I actually had a great time at BYU but

I was in a small humanities major + a lot of my classes were tiny

I didn't go to that many big events/pay attention to campus-wide stuff

I hung out mostly with people not from utah lol

so I definitely can't say my experience was universal. But for the record I think my actual education was very good + I have no debt. so. I would do it all over again but it's def not for everyone

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Anyone who thinks Jesus would be picking a political side if he showed up today has forgotten that his core followers included an anti-Rome zealot and a guy who was until then a tax collector for said Roman rulers. And he expected them to play nice and work together.

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It bothers me how many people are morally incurious, and it bothers me even more how many people seem to think that interrogating morality is proof of immorality- because I'm pretty sure that the latter is at least partly driving the former. Asking why an action or institution is wrong does not necessarily mean that someone thinks that that action or institution is right. If you never ask yourself why something is wrong or right, then what is determining your morality? Because it's not you.

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I mean do you really think. Do you really think a religion is going to survive two thousand years, multiple schisms, oppression, misuse, corruption, and still be followed by many, many people globally. Without being able to answer such basic questions as "why do bad things happen" and "what's the point of existence."

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Maybe I’m just a heretic, but I think Christianity generally fixates on the wrong aspects of Gods character. God’s omnipotence and omniscience often seem to be the go to descriptors, when in reality, scripture tells us that “God is Love” and “He that loveth not knoweth not God”. Having power or knowledge isn’t what defines God; it is immense love that God possesses that makes God what and who He is. Perfect, encompassing love is the primary characteristic of God. Not power, not knowledge, but love

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Yesterday we had a friend of my parent's over, and she asked a lot of completely fair questions about the church- about women, their roles, the misogyny in the church, so on. She was being very fair and respectful, genuinely looking for explanations. Something my dad said really stuck with me. "Jesus doesn't just swoop in every time we mess up. A lot of the time, He lets us figure it out and work it out for ourselves." We also talked quite a bit about the Children of Israel- after they left Egypt, the older generation had to die for them to be able to enter the promised land.Change happens in the church, albeit slowly. I've seen the progress, though. And as more of the members and leaders catch on to the central principles, i think it will continue to march forward. It's hard now. It's not going to stop being hard. But slowly, slowly. It will get better.

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my testimony for tumblrstake this fine sunday

I don't know jack-shit about the existence of God, the divinely ordained status of the church, the reality of anybody's appointment to a calling, or our identities as the children of a powerful and loving creator god. I have a laundry list of complaints about the church - the institutional homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, antisemitism, the refusal to admit that the institutional racism of church history was wrong and not "the will of God at the time," the demand that we unconditionally support leaders whose authority we did not get to weigh in on.

and yet.

this is the only place where I always feel like myself. like all the weird little pieces of me - the body, the spirit, the psyche, and all their fragmented parts - coalesce into something that makes sense, has meaning, and is accepted without the scrutiny of a cop looking for a reason to punish.

the church is fucked up, and so am I, and together we can improve each other with love and goodwill.

no matter how much it seems like this is someplace I can't belong, I always come back around to it. it always turns out to be the only place I belong. and I don't know, but I believe, that that's because I belong with Jesus Christ and our Heavenly Parents, and the way They want to instruct me is through this church and community. So I stay, and no matter how contradictory it seems, it makes me happy.

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I'm making myself a Mormon extension pack of Cards Against Humanity, tell me things to write on the white cards

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*cracks knuckles* time to log in to my biannual tumblr account. It’s Mormin time babey

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Isaiah propaganda:

Ruth propaganda:

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the idea that """cancel culture""" (for lack of a better term) and "puriteens" and the like have roots in cultural Christianity is so interesting to me...are you saying they kept the concept of redemption only so they could call everyone irredeemable? You wanted to abolish sin but you accidentally abolished redemption instead?

because to me, “everyone is redeemable” is kind of...the whole point of Christianity. "I can become better; I can change and be changed" is infinitely more freeing than "I don't need to ever become better; I'm already good enough." Because I don't want to be stuck here forever, like this, in all my blunderings and mistakes and regrets! I want to grow and improve and be free!

But I guess if you interpret God as some kind of authoritarian despot who is just waiting to see you mess up, then you decide to throw of "the rules" as some kind of liberation. "Sin isn't real. just do whatever you want as long as it's not hurting anyone."

But we do hurt each other. And what then? The wrongs aren't as easily dismissed as "the rules." So instead everyone is unforgivable and irredeemable and everyone is toxic and secretly a horrible monster who was just biding their time. And no apology will ever be good enough. Everyone's a sinner and no one is redeemable and no one will ever be redeemed. But hey! At least we're free from the tyranny of Christianity!

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can y'all make more memes pls? we have like no memes this conference

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I'm debating how blasphemous it would be to rewrite Nephi killing Laben but with the wedding story.