22. he/it. trans man on t.
history/religious studies student.
judaism-curious. ethnically mormon. agnostic in theory. veg. prison abolitionist. raised christofascist. anarchist leaning
this is my religion sideblog woohoo
arguing with a "the bible is all fake" person is so exhausting. "book of fairy tales!!!" well yeah it's the oral tradition passed down to us by our ancestors with the goal of teaching our children life lessons about how to live in the world. like every folktale. including fairy tales. "b b but its not true!!!!" yeah i know thats why i go to shul early on saturday mornings for torah study to sit down with my community and see what truths we can find in our traditional stories. "but somebody made it up!!!!!!" yeah, our ancestors did, to teach us how to live by our culture's laws and values. "but it didn't happen!!!!!!!!!!" no but what did happen is our ancestors cherished and protected and passed along these stories because the lessons they teach are so important to our culture so if you'd step aside please i'd like to continue studying what my predecessors worked so hard for me to have
every time the cult discourse comes up again the urge grows stronger to just start calling the Church "my cult" for fun. i went to a cult meeting this weekend. my cult's having a coat drive. sorry, i can't come that day, i have a thing with my cult. #MyCult
well, I've officially got my tickets to go to sweden over spring break- in march weather (cause I'm impatient but I'm justifying it by telling myself that if I'm going to immigrate I need to know what regular life is like. I've never much liked easy vacations). I'm going to spend a couple nights in äsköping, which is a small town right next to the 'manor' where my ggggma and all her sisters were born. äsköping is part of the tiny julita area, where that half of my swedish ancestry goes back for as long as censuses were a thing. there's a familysearch center in katrineholm, the next town over, so we'll see how far my broken swedish gets me. and then I'm gonna be in malmö, which is where my ggggpa and his entire census-taken bloodline was from- more specifically malmöhus county, which is now skåne county. I'm gonna wander around a lot of universities. I made a long-distance friend in stockholm, and he says there's an lds church super close to his office, so maybe I'll check that out? he and I are going to go grocery shopping and make dinner together. I'm gonna go to a couple fine dining restaurants for the first time in my life (cause they have actual vegan food over there. they literally have a 'mcvegan'. I didn't even know that was a thing. I'm going to cry probably). anyways. it's going to be good.
They way people talk about Mormons is kinda crazy tho. Like there’s this Christian church whose main thing is that everyone goes to heaven and there’s no hell, and like 90% of them are the nicest people you’ll ever meet but then in this one specific part of the US there’s a bunch of them and they’re a little weird, which is to be expected cause anyone would be if you get all of the same kind of people and put them in a desert. Sometimes you’ll talk to someone that left that church and they’ll claim it’s a cult and tell you all about their childhood and you’re like ‘gotta be honest with you buddy I think your parents and neighbors were just abusing you’.
So much of what I see on the internet about Mormonism is completely different from what I've experienced as a Mormon.
My family is Mormon through and through. I've only ever lived in Utah. Nearly all of my extended family graduated from BYU. You can trace my family to the earliest pioneers. I am the ultimate cultural Mormon. And here are some ThingsTM:
My grandparents on both sides celebrated when I declared as a young girl that I was going to be a scientist. They bought me chemistry kits and let me read their science magazines.
Everyone vaccinates their children.
We are a family of doctors, therapists, chiropractors, dentists, optometrists, entomologists, and more.
Many of my family members are educators, from preschool to middle school.
We play TTRPGs, board games, and video games together.
When I was little they took me to the BYU Bean Museum, and we admired the section on evolution. This is a core memory because their wall of skulls is so cool.
My parents gave me a comprehensive sex education. The only things they didn't teach me were the things they didn't know themselves.
I only learned about "science vs religion" in high school. It never crossed my mind that they could be at odds before then.
Also, I grew up asking questions and getting answers.
Does God have a name that isn't God? Yes, little one, and this is what it is.
Did God have a dad or did He just start existing one day? We aren't sure, but here's some theories/essays/books on the matter.
What is the purpose of [X] tradition? Here's the symbolism and how it relates to other religious and historical symbolism.
Will I no longer have OCD when I'm resurrected? I have no idea, but I do know that we will be happy. It'll probably be whatever makes you happiest--perhaps just getting rid of the bad parts?
Why does that person wear a tiny hat? They're our Jewish brethren, they wear religious clothes just like us.
I don't understand this teaching, do I have to follow it? You don't have to do anything, but here's why I personally follow it.
What do I do about doubts? Doubts are good; our religion is based on a man who had doubts. He asked God directly by praying, and you can do the same. You can also check out these resources, or ask one of us.
Of course, my family isn't perfect, but none of their faults trace back to the church. It usually just traces back to them being old (we're teaching them about what words are slurs, don't worry).
Though Dracula is never specifically stated to be Mormon, his three wives and refusal to drink wine were common stereotypes when the novel was written by Bram Stoker, shortly after his ex wife moved to Utah. This sardonic element is lost now that the Latter Day Saints have banned polygamy and allowed drinking beverages other than blood.
I found this video on instagram recently but i lost it. it’s a comic of kids from BYU ending up on U of U territory and like the U of U kids are dressed like stereotypical punks and they’re like “sinning is cool” and “do you want a hit of my latte flavored vape, mormie” and then dieter f uchtdorf shows up like the terminator and saves them and when they’re driving back he goes “what’s your name kid” and the BYU kids respond “boon. benson boon” please please please if you know what i’m talking about send it to me. i need to show it to my friends.
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