1. contribute money to a charity that I don't know how they're spending the money 2. pester neighbors about religion 3. lie about church history 4. accept volunteer jobs in a thankless organization doing meaningless busywork 5. attend hours upon hours of boring, repetitive church 6. dress up in funny, stupid looking costumes and pretend it has meaning 7. ignore and exclude/shun non-members at important family events 8. buy food storage from the same organization that tells me the end of the world is coming and I should buy and store half a basement's worth of food 9. follow unethical leaders who will not cooperate with legal authorities on such matters as honest taxes and murder investigation (Hoffman affair) 10. sing stupid songs about narcissistic leaders 11. put children at risk through unsafe rules and untrained clergymen 12. tell friends I know more about God and the world because I'm a Mormon 13. put up with a patriarchal system that doesn't give women the same leadership roles or spiritual authority as men 14. put up with the poor being told they should tithe instead of the church helping them 15. put up with a dirty church that tells us we need to clean it after the ward contributed tens of thousands of dollars as a group in income 16. put up with a church that takes huge amounts of money in tithing, but gives very little back to the local ward for youth programs, special events, etc. 17. put up with a church that says parents have to support their missionaries, but then takes that money and still expects local members to put up missionaries for room and board in their houses. etc.
I will not doubt myself when my belief conflicts with LDS teachings, but will trust in my ability to make decisions based on study and my own sense of right and wrong
TSCC teaches the world to lower it's standards. I didn't buy it; never married a moron or the CJS (cult of joe smith); didn't dump reality or possibility for the promise of a guilt and tarnish-free trip (and risk falling); wasn't willing to trade outer darkness for inner-BS or to sacrifice happiness for certain misery eternal boredom.
I was high when I was young and wasn't interested in lowering my standards for a known leech of a mind and blood-sucking, low-life dark hole in hell.
A Mormon couldn't come near me without getting higher, happier, and closer to the truth.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/07/2016 04:01PM by readwrite.
>>buy food storage from the same organization that tells me the >>end of the world is coming and I should buy and store half a >>basement's worth of food I was listening to Glen Beck this morning and I swear every 5 minutes he goes into this food storage sound byte about buying this and that, for the up coming Apocalypse or something that he never really explains?
Today he went off on when he was a little boy, years ago, and his parents were so poor that he had to drink powdered milk. I guess his listeners were suppose to feel sorry from the story...