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This is my space to reblog and discuss my religious beliefs.

[god-has-always-been-love]

Happy pride month!! Jesus loves you, I promise :) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

[brothermouse]

There's a certain kind of irony that, because the Deseret Alphabet is phonetic, you can't really have a Deseret Alphabet Spelling Bee.

[theknightandhersteed]

Fun fact, everyone at BYU is gay!

If you know someone at BYU who isn't gay, inform your supervisor and stay calm. We will rectify this inconsistency within 5-12 business days.

[nightvale1stward]

Night Vale First Ward

It's pride month, you know what that means!

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[nerdygaymormon]

[baronvonbunnyofficial]

List of things that I want to have in the first Martian colony temple

Lenticular images of paintings

A model solar system and moving starry sky projection in the celestial room.

The endowment video in 3D with the glasses

Roombas

Japanese toilets (if we can afford a temple on mars, we can afford a few Japanese toilets)

Brief moment of zero gravity between the veil and celestial room

Mirrors in the sealing room that allows you to digitally add in family members so it looks like they’re with you.

A secret electronic panel that only the prophet and the authorities can access in a time of emergency that turns the building into a giant mecha with rocket boosters. (If we can Afford Japanese toilets, we can afford to turn the building into a transformer)

[brothermouse]

Now I just want a whole anthology of descriptions of temples and chapels in weird places. Who do I gotta bribe to make that happen?

[bookofmormonmemes]

evil first nephi having been born of badly parents

[mormonmonastery]

this is how first laman starts.

[hiseyeisonthesparrow]

I'm calling it now. Kearon is the new Uchdorf. I can feel my blorbo senses tingling. We are all going to develop an obsession with this adorable golden retriever of a man

[saintqueersalt]

posts immediately preceding obsession

[nephis-bow-and-aroace]

this is like read a scientist’s initial notes about a virus years into a zombie apocalypse

[brothermouse]

Me when I see someone wish painful death and total eradication of all Mormons: Well golly, they seem awful upset. I'd better pray that they find peace in their hearts.

Me when my phone auto corrects "Deseret" to "dessert" or "desert": What is this hate crime? Why hast thou thrown in with the Prince of Darkness and all his odious ilk? When will my people be free?

[amethystmoons]

Did yall know this? I must've missed this announcement

[j-the-latter-gay-saint]

woah no way i've been excommunicated for years and nobody told me

[amethystmoons]

"Um actually you're not a real Christian because mormons believe in a different Jesus." ok that's fine. You can't use any of these paintings bc they're actually of my Jesus and not yours.

[j-the-latter-gay-saint]

haha do you ever stop and remember that there's a whole entire musical dedicated to mocking your religion that's been running continuously on broadway for half your life and nobody in the world thinks twice about it lollllll 😜 it won nine tony awards 🤪

[hiseyeisonthesparrow]

AND IT'S SUPER RACISTTTTTTT 🎉🎉🎉

[brothermouse]

The worst part about it being racist (aside from, you know, the racism) is that it's actually trying to be anti-racist. It just crit fails so hard it ends up being super racist.

The goal of it is to have audiences laugh at the way white American Christianity views and treats outside groups, especially those in non-white countries, and then walk away thinking "oh jeez, I do some of those silly things myself. Better fix that!" Instead, by choosing Mormonism as their "stereotypical white church" they solidly prevent any mainstream Christian from seeing themselves in the story. It then becomes "look at how ridiculous those Mormons (who I already hate) are! Glad I'm not like them at all!" And they walk away feeling superior and never once looking inward except to say how much better they are than the pretend Mormons on stage. So already it encourages the exact type of bigotry and self importance that it wants to discourage.

And then! It only depicts people of color as ignorant, violent, and diseased. You know, like a racist would. Now you COULD argue that it's supposed to be from the racist white character's perspective so of course they would appear that way. But here's the thing, narratively that only works if you, at any point say, "hey, actually this stuff isn't true". Otherwise, you're just doing racist shit.

And here's the rotten cherry on the whole shit cake: fans keep saying "yeah it's offensive, but the music is so catchy!" You know what else had catchy music? Blackface minstrel shows. Shit's still racist.

So to recap: the show that's supposed to be anti-racist is so bad at being anti-racist that it encourages bigotry, spreads racist stereotypes about a REAL country that REALLY exists, and the best defense of it has been used since the civil war. Like, I know that Mormonism doesn't have the best track record when it comes to racism, obviously, but we've NEVER fumbled it that badly.

[j-the-latter-gay-saint]

haha do you ever stop and remember that there's a whole entire musical dedicated to mocking your religion that's been running continuously on broadway for half your life and nobody in the world thinks twice about it lollllll 😜 it won nine tony awards 🤪

[hiseyeisonthesparrow]

AND IT'S SUPER RACISTTTTTTT 🎉🎉🎉

[bildswoman]

for my fellow members in the US, the church has put out a lesson for this month's fifth Sunday about the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. So. Y'know. Just so you're aware of that.

[theyna-truther]

last night we let the Polar Seltzer talk

[gay-mormon-wizard]

last night we let the Martinelli's Sparkling Cider talk

[amethystmoons]

They were right things really do be coming to pass.

[ten-toes-mcgee]