If anyone has trouble absorbing this valuable concept, classes are offered at your local Mormon chapel. Also support groups to keep you on track are available at the same location.
Truth is brutal it is non-conforming to belief. It is what it is and not what we may want it to be. Truth will bear up under scrutiny. There is more but that is all for now
Another answer works too: stop looking! Of course that doesn't apply in Mormonism, because, Mormons don't search for truth - since they think they already have found it.
One of these days I am going to write a wondrous explanation about what this great Hebrew prophet Alma taught regarding these things. Assuming that Mormonism fills the whole world we shall see the Alma Method be the universally accepted way of doing research as the scientists adopt this instead of the Scientific Method
xmmc Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I've known how to find "truth" since > kindergarten. > > "You put your right foot in, you put your right > foot out..." > > It's right on par with invisible friends telling > us secrets.
So THAT'S what it's all about!
BTW, Mormons not only have an invisible friend, they have an invisible enemy.
Of course, it is always the other guy who doesn't have the truth.
For example, after exmos discover the "truth" about church, they proceed to cherry-pick evidence to prove that alcohol, coffee, tattoos, feminism, government programs, etc, etc, are all true.
I thought that had more to do with being liberated from Mormonism that led to the acceptance that some things were/are not evil because we were told they were.
One doesn't "believe" in alcohol or in coffee, or tattoos compared to a religion.
Feminism as a religion? I think not. Many religions embrace feminism but not as an extension of a theology other than it is equal treatment of women in an era where civil rights of all regardless of sexual orientation, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, ageism and disability matter.
Helping the poorest in society through aid programs is hardly a religion either. It's part of what being a civilized society does to help its most destitute - that is charity defined. Still, not a religion unless you attach it to one.
Although it is how Christ defined "pure religion" as: helping the poor however it manifests itself. His definition included giving aid to the widows and orphans, the fatherless, and visiting the sick and those in prison to heal them. For Jesus, that *was* his religion, his truth. In Mormonism, it is the opposite of what he taught. Mormons puff themselves up in their own eyes while turning a blind eye to the need around them.
Believing in liberty and freedom of conscience to choose what to believe, what to eat, drink, or wear on one's body - that is something to treasure. Is it truth? Not really. It may help in the seeking after truth though, from a foundation based on honest endeavor and belief in the self-worth of the individual.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 10/22/2016 04:41PM by Amyjo.
As an atheist (soft-core synod) I always feel closest to ghawd when I'm wearing a freshly ironed white shirt and a conservative neck tie. Plus I imagine I can see the broad, toothless grin of Holy McGhost. (Yes, it's true; the resurrected body does NOT have teeth, plus the tongue...well, you don't want to know about the tongue.)