NOM

The LDS church is not at all democratic, there aren't any elections or representatives. They will opt to weather the storm. I wouldn't expect any significant changes in our lifetime. If anything, the move of other churches to less literal and more spiritual positions will probably encourage them to...

StarbucksMom wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 18, 2018 10:05 am

What is a "Folk Religion?" Would Mormons be in the folk or other category?

It refers to some loose collection of cultural spirituality and superstitions that aren't formalized into a religious system. Mormonism would be lumped under Christianity.

From what i've read, the entire country has a decline in church goers. Millenials are just not buying a lot of organized "helf fire & damnation" religion, or even some of the more liberal as well. The LDS church is in that same soup. You might find this interesting. One possible explanation in decl...

Going more conservative and fundamentalist has proven a failed strategy for Southern Baptists. For more than a decade, the denomination has been experiencing precipitous decline by almost every metric. Baptisms are at a 70-year low, and Sunday attendance is at a 20-year low. Southern Baptist churche...

It's like I tell people on reddit, bragging about royal ancestry doesn't make you special, it just makes you an asshole.

A little insight I have gained that I have yet to understand: For a religion that was and is persecuted and tries to preach to the rest of the church That they should be tolerated they produce some of the most intolerant people. It's all one way. They want it, but they don't want to give it. Once t...

My in-laws just celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary and they wanted a trip to Nauvoo with all of their children and grandchildren. T I have a question. Is it pretty common for the grandparent generation to plan vacations to churchy spots so they can get all of their wayward (inactive) childre...

They ditched Home teaching and replaced it with an identical program called Ministering. Feel the change! Old men and young men now meet together for an hour every Sunday instead of separate. Wow, that is change, real, honest to goodness change. Now I’ll grant you, leaving the Scouting program is a...

I listened to the Mormon Stories podcast on this. The first thing that came to mind was the fact that the entire model just seemed so anecdotal. It's not as if a scientific definition exists as to what constitutes a dangerous group, and it's even more difficult when you try to pin down an answer for...

It sounds to me like you don’t want to go! You don’t need anyone’s permission to cancel or go to a meeting with someone you don’t want to see. You just need your own permission to not go, it’s ok to listen to yourself! Realize you don’t have to do anything. You don’t owe anyone an interaction ever ...

Instead, they teach that you should donate even if it's at the expense of necessities like shelter or food. That's what's wrong. We should be more like the brethren on this point, not less. I agree with you completely, except that they've way over-done it with their rainy-day fund. That is a hell o...

We recently learned that the brethren have a gigantic "emergency fund". Why? Where is their faith? This goes directly against the teachings of Jesus. ... They apparently don't believe the above scriptures. They also refuse to follow Christ's instructions that he gave to his 12 apostles to travel wi...

Exactly. On a family level, I am now the harbinger of sad heaven... that's a lot of responsibility, being able to turn someone's heaven into hell... That's a lot of power you've got there. It's one thing to ruin Christmas, but it's a whole other thing to ruin heaven. You'd have to be more powerful ...

But my MIL, my mother, my ward even have a large interest in me being there. If my Family is out, I (we) hold all the cards. Yes, this. I don't know why it took so long for me to see the real power dynamic. The church has done such a fabulous job indoctrinating us with the belief that we need the c...

Corsair wrote: ↑

Thu May 24, 2018 7:57 am

I can assure you that while he was quickly ecommunicated, he absolutely did not die.

I guess the Stake President just wasn't faithful enough.

No one mentioned Ananias and Sapphira. They were supposed to be living the law of consecration, but these two secretly sold land and kept the money for themselves. Peter finds out about it and strikes them dead on the spot.

It's possible it could be source material considering the other aspects of Masonry Joseph used in Mormonism. In my mind there's a pretty strong pattern of Joseph Smith borrowing ideas from his surroundings. This is the one thing that the video never addressed, the presence of some seemingly anti-ma...

It's unprovable, of course, but I'm reminded of the narratives I've read from Mormon apologists in the past when they're trying to provide evidence that the Book of Mormon is an ancient record. This is more solid than any Book of Mormon archaeology proof ever created. It's more provable than the hoo...

My goal is to become indifferent towards Mormonism. And I question whether that's possible if I continue being a NOM. Am I just going through a phase and need to calm down? How can I be indifferent and "active" in Mormonism when all I hear is s*** every Sunday. Do I manage it? Or do I walk away? Wo...

There's a gradient spectrum when it comes to belief and activity. I'd say that the NOM portion of the rainbow sort of begins with someone who customizes Mormonism, either belief or practice, outside the accepted boundaries set by the orthodoxy. There's some leeway near the edges where some personal ...