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But you have come here thinking you have gnostic evidence of "proof" of JS's fraud, as if we haven't read the evidence a thousand times before, or as if another perspective on the evidence isn't possible. Well it is possible, and just because one doesn't walk a screaming, mindless apostate, doesn't make the observer an idiot. Reasonable minds can differ, yet I've yet to read any post of yours being anything but entirely slanted like the Tanners. So for Tanner type apostates, I say good riddance. Thoughtful persons such as El Paso, or even Seattle Ute, who finds the community somewhat engage are valuable. But the bitter apostates such as you are not.
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It's the Taqmans that have no value. They leave, but bitch and complain about what a crock of shizz JS was. They have the "Mormonism did to me." With that I disagree with Seattle. There are some cultural things which Mormonism does, i.e., sexual repression of women, but by in large its effects are beneficial and one shouldn't blame the culture for your own problems.
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If a man had serious doubts about the veracity of the church and still participated because he felt like it was the right thing to do, shouldn't church members embrace and applaud such a course of action?
I'd prefer one who kept the commandments though uncertain of their origins than one who knew with absolute certainty whence they came-- and proceeded to disregard them.
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I applaud El Paso for being in a place that he's at peace with.
It's something that most of us, including myself are still trying to discover.
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There are many in the church who are in El Paso's situation or very, very close to it.
Many of them pay tithing and send kids on missions. After the Sister Beck situation, I asked a gal who works in this office what she thought. She said it didn't bother her. She said she doesn't believe everything they say in conference. She said she thinks the church is a great culture to belong to even if we find out it really isn't "the only true church." She and her husband pay tithing and are sending a kid on a mission and go to church regularly. Do we really want to start putting people who don't believe as strongly as the orthodox types on guilt trips so they will either stay or go? |
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After the last few years of going through some difficult grappling with the laundry list of issues, I feel much more at peace with no longer feeling compelled to decide whether this is the "only true church" or not. I've decided that it's a great church/institution that is divinely inspired to a large degree, but to me there is no way that there can be one "true" church, whatever that means. There are plenty of things that inspire me without the need to analyze whether they are "true" or not. Maybe that makes me lukewarm or shows that I'm not a thinking person, but at this point in my life, I don't care. |
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