A mid 40s dude who deconstructed Mormonism and is now all f’ed up. A bit obsessed with Mormon history and Biblical scholarship. Been called “Satan’s weasel.”
Utah, USA
Joined June 2014
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And I’ll add this to it too:
I challenge every Mormon on X to REPOST 🔁 this quote from your own church’s 5th president. Let’s see how many of you are willing to publicly stand behind it.
“As man now is, God once was: As God now is, man may be.”
— Lorenzo Snow, 5th President of the LDS Church
#LatterDaySaints #LDS #ChurchOfJesusChrist #ComeUntoChrist #HearHim #BookOfMormon #BecauseOfHim #RestoredGospel #LDSChurch #MormonFaith
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Calvinist Dog Corrects Owner: ‘No One Is A Good Boy’ buff.ly/7DVri9H
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Wanna know how I know calling people Mormons is not inherently a slur or offensive and any pearl clutching on the topic is just a performative persecution complex: 1000s of Mormons just cheered with enthusiastic joy upon a Pat McAfee calling them Mormons.
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So it seems that certain individuals have been spreading around fake AI generated screenshots of me claiming I preform ritualistic sacrifices on animals, aswell as false rumors such as that I believe I’m Joseph Smith reincarnated and other ridiculous things.
The fake ai pictures of my profile pic don’t even have eye balls BTW. See the comparison between the real and fake. I will be addressing this either tonight or tomorrow so stay tuned for that. The lengths people will go to is shocking.
I’m convinced more and more that pastors don’t learn scholarship but just apologetics for their faith.
Theology has become just “defend their ideology.”
The Kingdom of God as an apocalyptic teaching has been outlined in detail by E. P. Sanders, Bart Ehrman, Dale Allison, Paula Fredriksen, and John P. Mei.
It’s probably the dominant historical reconstruction of Jesus’ history of that teaching.
But to a pastor, there is no evidence.
A lot of Mormon parents feeling guilty right now:
2 Nephi 4:5–6
"If ye are brought up in the way ye should go ye will not depart from it."
"If ye are cursed [...] the cursing may be taken from you and be answered upon the heads of your parents."
Jacob 3:10
"Remember that ye may, because of your filthiness, bring your children unto destruction, and their sins be heaped upon your heads at the last day.
D&C 93:40–42
"I have commanded you to bring up your children in light and truth."
And regarding Frederick G. Williams:
"He hath not taught his children light and truth, according to the commandments; and that wicked one hath power, as yet, over him, and this is the cause of his affliction."
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Can raising your child in a deeply religious household ensure that they stay part of the faith?
Nope. It doesn't even give you a 50/50 chance.
I created an index of childhood religiosity, and even among those who scored in top 20%, less than half attend church weekly now.
@surskitmaxxing show your Christian friends in your CG this and tell them I said hi. Glad it’s not just me. 😆
Ok, let me get this straight:
1. Beliefs should follow good reasons and evidence, not dogma.
2. If evidence contradicts your beliefs, you should be willing to revise those beliefs.
3. Dan McClellan advocates putting data over dogma, yet you criticize him for it.
4. You claim the data supports the Restoration, but also warn against a secular mindset that threatens belief in it.
So here’s the question: Is the Restoration a conclusion you’re willing to revise based on evidence, or a conclusion you’re committed to defending regardless of the evidence?
Because if it’s the latter, you’re doing exactly what you just condemned: putting dogma over data.
The cognitive dissonance is strong.
If you teach your kids to have faith in things that go against the data, eventually (if they are intelligent) they will realize that is what is known as an arbitrary belief and that sort of BLIND faith is not a virtue.
And they will abandon their faith.
BLIND FAITH = Belief in things you don’t have good reasons to believe = Putting dogma over data= arbitrary belief
Telling people blind faith is a virtue is madness. Blind faith just means you don’t care about truth.
You place your faith in what you have GOOD REASON to believe to be true.
Otherwise your beliefs are arbitrary.
And if your child rejects your insistence that is a virtue to have faith in things you have no good reason to believe to be true, then they are the one who cares about truth. Not you.
But here is the good news. There are excellent reasons to believe in God, Christ and The Restoration. The data supports these propositions.
And stop assuming the only data is empirical data. That is the secular game we rightly reject. And if we play that game then we will lose and your kids will leave the church. Secularism and the secular mindset is the greatest threat to the church.
Why Evangelicalism is a flawed 20th and 21st-century movement and NOT "true" Christianity:
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1. An A-historic View of Salvation (4:04 - 10:29): He explains that the evangelical focus on an individual, modern "sinner's prayer" and a personal relationship with Jesus is anachronistic and not found in the New Testament. He argues this model relies on later developments, like Enlightenment-era individualism, rather than the historical, communal context of early Christianity.
2. The Doctrine of Biblical Inerrancy (10:30 - 15:12): The creator contends that insisting on an inerrant, infallible Bible is a relatively modern invention developed to counter historical-critical scholarship. He argues this makes the religion "falsifiable" and forces apologists into intellectual dishonesty, as the Bible contains inherent contradictions and historical inaccuracies that cannot be reconciled.
3. Uncritical Adoption of Historical Doctrine (15:13 - 18:47): He notes the irony that while evangelicals claim to bypass church history to return to an "authentic" Acts-like church, they uncritically accept centuries of tradition—such as the Trinity and the nature of Christ—that were established by early church councils, all while ignoring the complex process by which the Bible itself was edited and formed by the historic church.
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