What's so difficult to understand about Mormonism?

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Re: What's so difficult to understand about Mormonism?

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Chap wrote:
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by the way, you are probably addicted to porn.


Not only did you nail the anti-anti-Mormon thing, but you divinated my penchant for looking at nekkid women on the Internet.

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Re: What's so difficult to understand about Mormonism?

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Has DCP injected "divinated" into the Mormonspeak lexicon?

When will the word divinated show up over on MDD?
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Re: What's so difficult to understand about Mormonism?

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sock puppet wrote:
When I stopped believing, did God force another veil of forgetfulness over my mind, distorting my memory and understanding of Mormon teachings--and doing it in the same way with each and every other apostate that posts here at MDB?

I don't recall a thread devoted to this topic, so I am starting one.



Timely thread. Just this past weekend, my TBM Nephite brother-in-law used this exact nonsense against my wife. He told her that he has "studied Mormonism deeply, no, *really* deeply" and that my wife clearly doesn't have an understanding of the teachings of the church.

This despite the fact that my wife:

1. Grew up in the exact same house as my brother-in-law did - you know, the typical Mormon upbringing of church every week, early morning seminary, food storage, scripture study, FHE, prayer, etc.

2. Was sealed in the temple, exactly like my brother-in-law (like my wife, my RM BIL also had some pre-marital fun, so the temple was delayed a year)

3. Was TBM right up until a year ago

Now, *unlike* my BIL, my wife has:

1. Taught early morning seminary
2. Taught Gospel Doctrine for 4 years
3. Taught Relief Society for 5 years
4. Taught Young Women's for god knows how long

My BIL, on the other hand, has taught YM, been a ward mission leader, and served in a bishopric. Hasn't taught a damn thing beyond his mission.

And yet, somehow now that my wife has left the church, not only does BIL know more than her, not only did she never understand the teachings of the church, but apparently BIL has full responsibility and authority to tell her such.

H.
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Re: What's so difficult to understand about Mormonism?

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JB,

It's frustrating to be told by people who haven't done what you've done, to the degree that you've followed the "Brethren's guidance", that you never understood the Brethren.

It's shameful, actually. They should be ashamed of themselves to dismiss so much effort, ritualism, money, time, and faith with a wave of the hand.

V/R
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In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.

Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
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