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Please say I’m not the only one whose noticed this lmao

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missionary work has always been violent and colonialist but there’s something so insulting about trying to be a missionary in like. the 21st century. everyone has fucking heard of jesus by now, if they didn’t join up it’s because they didn’t want to. guarantee no one needs to hear about jesus like they already know the lore and can make the choice for themselves

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if u grew up with 'heavenly father' as well as actual father you may be entitled to twice the amount of father based trauma !

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Mormonism promised us the ultimate happily ever after. If you're here, you've likely been disillusioned. I am trying to find words to describe how it felt walking away from the script I was supposed to follow. I'm hoping hearing other ex-mo's perspective would be helpful, so I'm here to ask, "What was supposed to be your mormon fairy tale? What did you give up? And what did you gain? What is your new fairy tale?"

This blog is for further correspondence beyond the survey I created. If you have any questions for me, this is the best place to ask!

Mormon Happily Ever After Survey

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Are you a gay or gay adjacent ex-Mormon? You should watch this hot new show that’s airing a new season next week, the showrunner is also a gay ex-Mormon and the show contains an increasing abundance of delightfully compelling queer characters. If you like fantasy or science fiction or post-apocalyptic workplace comedies, wot is the show for you.

Plus the still Mormon and not gay guy who did a kind of bad job (in my opinion) writing the last three books to finish the series keeps badmouthing the show because of how woman-centric and gay it is, so if you wanna stick it to Brandon Sanderson, you should definitely watch the wheel of time!

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A few people have asked, so here is my favorite Polite Mormon Ignorance story.

(I pretend to have no idea what mormons are whilst ringing one up, see what mischief I can get up to)

This a paraphrase but my coworker was there for some of it and she remembers it like this too.

Chatty old lady, we are discussing the particular geography of our city and I mention that I live near the big mormon temple as a landmark. She lights up, clearly excited, and then she's extoling the virtues of church and mormon temples, how jealous she is of how close I am to the temple, how the temple is the best building in the world, how amazing mormonism is, etc. She's one of the people who talks like they're getting paid by the word, and I'm mostly zoned out into Polite Retail Agreement until I see my opportunity.

Lady: ...honestly, you are soooo lucky, the temple is Great!

(Target aquired)

Me: yeah, it is pretty great, and spacious too! They must have 10 weddings a weekend!

(Hard to explain all the lore but describing something as "great and spacious" in the mormon church is effectively calling it a house of the devil)

She couldn't have looked more surprised if I slapped her. She's kinda quiet so I continue that they must have to have a big one bc of how many mormons live around here.

Lady: it's not That big, it's a pretty modest building actually... not like other churches...

Me: I walk a mile everyday just by walking a lap of the grounds.... it's very pretty. What other churches? The mormon temple is by far the biggest one I've ever seen around here.

Lady: you know, big cathedrals and stuff

Me: oh, are there cathedrals in (city)? I haven't seen any

Lady, sounding kind of pissed: no, not that I've seen. But our temple is Modest and Beautiful.

Me: ummm, yeah... Are you alright?

Lady: yes! (She is clearly annoyed)

My coworker and I make the kind of eye contact only retail workers can make, and then I am saved by her daughter calling her on the phone. She apologized to me the next time she came in for being snappy and asked me to consider coming to her ward that sunday. I politely turned her down, and she repeatedly promised that she was normally very nice and it was just a bad day.

My best friend and I joked that I absolutely ended up in her next sacrement meeting talk or yw lesson in one way or another, so if you've heard this story before, that was me.

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TUMBLR NO WTF IS THIS

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I love how he finds the words to describe the concepts that float around my head daily ❤️❤️❤️❤️ love him!

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Quitmormon.com (the pro-bono legal team who made it so the Mormon church couldn't stalk me after I left the church) is fundraising to get a full-time, paid lawyer, AND provide free mental health services to people leaving the Mormonism (mostly LGBT people and our allies)

I'm not one to post fundraisers, my followers know this, but if you can spare a few dollars to give to this incredible organization I would be so grateful

Here's the g*fundme

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In high school one of my seminary teachers cursed my entire class to never receive the full blessings of the Book of Mormon and most of us left the church so it worked I guess?

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it’s funny though, if we don’t have genitals in heaven, why is the presidency so freaked out about nonbinary people? that’ll be us (well, them, imma sinner) in heaven.

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Growing up Mormon is so weird because like I am a full grown adult, haven't attended church in years, got my name stricken from the records, don't believe in any of it, the whole shtick- AND YET STILL, the idea that coffee is somehow this illicit sinners drink is still unconsciously lodged in my silly little brain. Like, I love coffee! It is very tasty! But genuinely Everytime I drink it you would think I was a 15 year old trying to sneak alcohol past her parents. Religious trauma can be funny sometimes!

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Getting a lotta queer//stake posts on my dash rn and I just wanna make my stance on the topic clear. Yes you can be queer and Christian. Yes you can be queer and believe in a God like the one the Mormon church talks about. But the LDS church itself is a violent, bigoted institution and I do not want to associate with anyone who thinks they can fix/change it. Worship your god all you want, but you cannot profess yourself to be an ally to marginalized communities while belonging to and believing in a church that directly harms them. Joseph Smith was a con man and a pedophile. Brigham Young was a violently bigoted man. The foundations on which the church was built are inherently harmful. You cannot change that, no matter how progressive your personal politics may be. I know it's tempting to try, I wanted so badly to reconcile these two parts of myself as well. But sometimes it really is one or the other. I'm sorry. Your god will not damn you for leaving, and if you think he would, you should really question why.

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No, mom. I don't plan on coming over for Sunday dinner right after my toddler wakes up from her nap. I plan on taking her to the library first, thus breaking the Sabbath, which you know I frequently do, but I still have anxiety about telling you about it, despite me being in my mid-30's, when it affects my plans with you.

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I have never met a man who cared to know his Heavenly Mother,

though he parrots her existence as a symbol of our equality.

If there is a Mother in heaven, helpmeet to the Father, performing the same invisible labor as her daughters here on earth—

It's too bleak a thought. I hope instead that she dumped his sorry ass.