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8 months

Why shouldn’t members of the LDS church, especially my family, ask me why I don’t believe the church is what it claims to be?

Church News

@the_churchnews

8 months

There is no end to the adversary’s deceptions. Please be prepared. Never take counsel from those who do not believe. - @NelsonRussellM #GeneralConference

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3 years

I wonder why the difference?

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2 years

“Turns out, most do”

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1 year

@jessiejensen @briebriejoy “If you’re comparing the badness of two words and you won’t even say one of them, that’s the worst word”

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2 years

Our kids are married and active LDS. We don’t talk with them about why we left - unless they ask. This week a daughter’s been upset about conference’s treatment of the LGBTQ community and heavenly mother. If/when my kids leave, it will be on the church.

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1 year

Todd Christofferson tells a story oblivious to the inevitable question: “Why didn’t the husband/sons iron their own shirts?” My wife told me this talk was later used in a RS message. Was the topic “Suffer in silence”?

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1 year

My wife reminded me we didn’t buy shoes for our kids when they were young so we could pay tithing to a church that hoarded the money. I’d call that recklessly wasted.

Carrie McIntyre | The Relevant Questions

@RelevantQuest

1 year

The Church has a lot of money bc they’ve been prudent stewards for 150+ years. Evidence proves them to be exceptionally careful, nothing recklessly wasted or spent on self-indulgence. It’s used for public good. So critics must stick to the script that merely having money is evil.

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@ldsfootnotes

2 years

Your church is currently arguing this in court:

Russell M. Nelson

@NelsonRussellM

2 years

Abuse constitutes the influence of the adversary. It is a grievous sin. As President of the Church, I affirm the teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ on this issue. Let me be perfectly clear: any kind of abuse of women, children, or anyone is an abomination to the Lord.

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1 year

Nobody: Dallin Oaks: In case it’s not clear, the LDS church hates LGTBQ people.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

@Ch_JesusChrist

1 year

At a meeting Saturday with local Church leaders in Chicago, President Dallin H. Oaks clarified why The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints supported the religious freedom protections in the new United States Respect for Marriage Act.

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10 months

At the next to last Relief Society meeting my wife attended the topic was “Preparedness.” When asked for examples, she suggested getting an education. Silence ensued. Apparently, the correct answer was canning.

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@ldsfootnotes

1 year

LDS Church leaders used to counsel members to buy property “that would prevent blacks from buying homes in white neighborhoods near LDS chapels.”

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2 years

Me this morning: Look what an LDS general authority wrote in 1964 Brad Wilcox: Hold my beer

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1 year

Managers for the LDS church’s shell funds “were selected because they had common names and a limited presence on social media, and were therefore less likely to be publicly connected to Ensign Peak or the Church.”

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2 years

I don’t know if the Cedar City teens in black face are LDS and I’ve not made that claim. What I do know is there is a contingent of LDS Twitter in my mentions defending or “what-abouting” their actions.

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@ldsfootnotes

1 year

Never mind this just got interesting 😆

TheShadeMaster

@ZeStorminMormon

1 year

Saving the Church money by cleaning the buildings each weekend is also “exploitation” by this definition. These people are not against exploitation. They are against community. They hate society and civilization. They would rather you be alone and miserable than be held to any

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11 months

If your church rolls out a program with the following warning you can bet stupidity will follow:

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4 years

My Father-in-law died from COVID-19 today. He was the best FIL one could have.

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@ldsfootnotes

3 years

PSA to Mormons who insist on turning funerals into missionary lessons to nonmembers and “sad-heaven” injunctions to those of us that have left - its offensive.

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@ldsfootnotes

11 months

A BYU student/ex-boyfriend was CONVICTED for threatening and stalking my daughter. BUT while the BYU police were completing the investigation, the Honor Code Office called HER and asked if there was anything SHE DID to provoke him.

FLOODLIT.org

@floodlitorg

11 months

For many years, this LDS child sexual abuse survivor didn’t understand why she was never assigned to work with children. Then she found out that when she had reported her father’s abuse in the 1980s, her own membership record had had an “annotation” mark placed. That was why.

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@ldsfootnotes

2 years

These youth have significantly altered the course of their life. While I have some speculative ideas, I still wonder why they felt emboldened to do this.

🥀_ Imposter_🥀

@Imposter_Edits

2 years

So this happened at cedar city Utah Walmart. Wow..

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@ldsfootnotes

3 years

What is it with Mormons and vaccines? From @nytimes obituary for David O. McKay, Jan 19, 1970.

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@ldsfootnotes

2 years

So the ward EQ president happened by when my wife was dealing with the snow and said she’d “look prettier if she’d smile” and the neighborhood got to hear a few words typically not heard in church. What is it with old men?

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@ldsfootnotes

1 year

Yes, the LDS church admits Joseph Smith cheated on his wife.

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2 years

Bruce McConkie described psychiatry as a form of apostate religion in his first edition of Mormon Doctrine.

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1 year

LDS culture is not a safe place for a lot of vulnerable people.

BYU prof becomes bullying target after mentioning her trans child in class

A BYU professor comes under attack after discussing her transgender child in class.

www.sltrib.com

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@ldsfootnotes

7 months

Mormon doctrine continues to serve up innocent members to evil men.

The Salt Lake Tribune

@sltrib

7 months

A former therapist in Utah who is accused of sexually abusing his patients during sessions was charged Monday with 10 felonies in connection with two men’s reports.

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@ldsfootnotes

2 years

Imagine your husband told you God said this.

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@ldsfootnotes

11 months

Another Book of Mormon bullseye

The Wall Street Journal

@WSJ

11 months

A new Mormon temple in Idaho is 71,125 square feet. Its limestone flooring was quarried in Bethlehem and wood for its doors was imported from the Congo. It cost $69 million to construct—and is just one small part of a global spending spree.

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2 years

“Never mind this just got interesting”

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@ldsfootnotes

1 year

Kevin Hamilton sure didn’t think this through considering where his church has dragged itself.

LDS Footnotes

@ldsfootnotes

1 year

“Elder Hamilton encouraged the audience to substitute the words ‘the Church’ for the word ‘Savior’ in those sentences because it puts a different perspective on things when one says they disagree with the Savior.”

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@ldsfootnotes

2 years

A BYU student/ex-boyfriend was CONVICTED for threatening and stalking my daughter. BUT while the police were completing the investigation, the HCO called HER and asked if there was anything SHE DID to provoke him.

lauren gustus

@laurengustus

2 years

BYU and The Tribune spent 5 years entangled in open records litigation over police records that were misused during Honor Code investigations. We resolved the dispute earlier this year. Reporting on documents @sltrib received begins here:

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@ldsfootnotes

2 years

Can you imagine Jesus sitting down with anyone and asking them not to post a picture of the encounter because it might give people the “wrong idea”?

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@ldsfootnotes

7 months

Spouse and I played poker last night with 18 other friends. With the exception of one active member all are ExMos. More than half have LGBTQ children. Anecdotally it appears the LDS treatment of LGBTQ is a huge factor for families leaving the LDS church.

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@ldsfootnotes

2 years

The latest episode of Under the Banner of Heaven hit us hard. My wife said “You were manipulative like them” referring to JS the stake president and the general patriarchy. And I was. We are both in a better place now but it took too much time to get here.

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@ldsfootnotes

1 year

Play stupid games win stupid prizes

Davis District pulls Bible from elementaries, junior highs 'due to vulgarity or violence'

The Bible has been removed from all elementary and junior high school libraries throughout the Davis School District after someone challenged its contents.

www.ksl.com

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@ldsfootnotes

3 years

According to LDS church records and the Tongan census, nearly half of Tonga has left the church.

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3 years

@MagicalOverload I agree with several people already identified in the thread, but here to add another - Karen Carpenter

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@ldsfootnotes

2 years

Mormons showing up in the timeline thinking their lived experience is the only true version of Mormonism so if UtBoH doesn’t reflect what they experienced, it doesn’t really reflect Mormonism - is an interesting take for people in a church that lists 16 million members.

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@ldsfootnotes

1 year

Teaching children to obey this way is a recipe for disaster.

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@ldsfootnotes

3 years

Then why are there no women who are Mormon bishops?

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@ldsfootnotes

7 months

“…Emma’s disappearance from LDS history was so total that Linda says when she and Valeen co-authored an article about her for the Ensign in 1979, it was the first writing about her to appear in any official church publication in 113 years”

Fellowship of the Eternal Saints

@Eternal_Saints_

7 months

Here’s the difference between you and me, cousin: You view our pioneer grandmothers as victims. I view them as gods. They earned their coming exaltation, and they’ll get their reward. These women built the world for us. And they deserve our respect. Not our pity.

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LDS Footnotes

@ldsfootnotes

1 year

“Of the 33 speakers in the five sessions, only two were women.” Had active LDS family over last night. One daughter said she had a wonderful weekend, specifically mentioned she did not listen to a single session. Another watched and said a talk upset her (I don’t know which.)

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@ldsfootnotes

1 year

Ezra Taft Benson did a lot of damage to our generation.

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1 year

The LDS church didn’t use to teach members to prioritize tithing over food. Orson Hyde in 1847: "If it requires all a man can earn to support himself and family, he is not tithed at all"

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@ldsfootnotes

1 year

Be the kind of friend this guy thinks Satan is:

bonky

@shesbonky

1 year

@whitecatprophcy pointed out this completely unhinged BYU-H devotional and this man's talk is as creepy and manufactured as his toupee. Not a cult.

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@ldsfootnotes

2 years

A Reddit thread you might want to check @Ch_JesusChrist

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11 months

Consider sending fast offerings direct to the food bank…

KSL

@KSLcom

11 months

With children out of school and eating more at home, food pantries across Utah are reporting a jump in demand, but at the same time, food donations have dropped off.

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1 year

Attended an LDS baptism for an 8 year old. One speaker spoke about how the HG prompted her to take a different path - someone else took her original path and was raped. A second speaker spoke on the “woman taken in adultery” (John 7). Welcome into the LDS church kid. 😬

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2 years

The thing is, LDS doctrine is clear that polygamy is sanctioned by God, selectively practiced in this life, but definitely practiced in heaven. So when LDS members point fingers at other polygamous Mormon sects and state "That's not us" what they're saying is "That's not us YET"

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@ldsfootnotes

1 year

16 year old Ina Coolbrith, daughter of Joseph Smith’s brother Don Carlos. Her mother, Agnes, married Joseph as a plural wife in 1842 after Don Carlos died. Bellies the apologetic attitude that girls marrying older men was considered normal.

Peggy Fletcher Stack

@religiongal

1 year

Historically, Mormon women were divided on polygamy. Some hated it, while others loved it and believed it a higher form of matrimony. Hear some in their own words.

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LDS Footnotes

@ldsfootnotes

3 years

“But if revelation has changed the core meaning of marriage and sex in the past, it is dishonest to say that God’s commandments about marriage and sex ‘never change.’” In today’s @sltrib

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1 year

Many leave the LDS church because it is the right moral choice.

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2 years

Found out my daughter was fact checking the pioneer stories as they were being told in her sacrament meeting yesterday. 😄

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@ldsfootnotes

1 year

The temple endowment was created to hide Mormon polygamy.

Juvenile Instructor

@MormonHistoryJI

1 year

What Mormon history opinion puts you in this situation?

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@ldsfootnotes

2 years

Brad Wilcox is despicable.

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1 year

“Faculty members are being let go from Brigham Young University, and an opaque new office of the LDS church is apparently calling the shots. A common thread is LGBTQ issues.”

New church office cutting faculty members at Brigham Young

www.insidehighered.com

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@ldsfootnotes

2 years

Ezra Benson did much damage to my generation.

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3 years

So why does the church prevent parents from attending their children’s weddings. 🤔

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

@Ch_JesusChrist

3 years

“God’s message is that worthiness is not flawlessness. Worthiness is being honest and trying.” —Brother Bradley R. Wilcox #GeneralConference

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1 year

LDS leaders do not value women’s voices.

Peggy Fletcher Stack

@religiongal

1 year

Out of 33 speakers at last week's LDS Conference only 2 were women. What message does that send about the importance of women's voices in the male-dominated faith?

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1 year

“I'd be happy to clean the church if the church explains why it didn't come out in support of HB 222, which would provide breakfast to kids at school if they didn't get it at home.”

Dr. Gus McCrae

@LonesomeGusMc

1 year

@ldsfootnotes Post the rest. What happened?

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2 years

I have a NeverMo coworker who has only been in Utah for three months. I’d love to see his reaction to this sign.

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@ldsfootnotes

1 year

Polygamy will always be relevant to Mormon discourse as long as D&C 132 is canon and LDS doctrine stipulates eternal polygamy is practiced in heaven. To pretend otherwise is disingenuous.

Sam Dodini

@microsamonomics

1 year

@Hegemommy Why? Mormons haven't taken the idea seriously in about 120 years. It's like wanting to talk about polygamy. It's just not relevant.

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3 years

Holland empathetically read a letter from a member “betrayed” by the fact that views other than their own exist as a set up to betray a BYU alum who let people know he exists.

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8 months

As doctrine is, policy once was. As policy is, doctrine may become.

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@ldsfootnotes

8 months

More gaslighting.

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1 year

“… easy to misunderstand.” 🙄

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1 year

People like me donated a lot of money and time to the LDS church Mr Boyd. Before the 2019 disclosure of the church’s vast wealth, the statements below were all the church said about it. The church’s dishonesty is astounding and newsworthy.

Deseret News

@Deseret

1 year

"The media’s unusual and enduring fascination with Latter-day Saint finances has extended over the better part of a century," @JacobZHess and @halrobertboyd write in @DNewsOpinion .

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10 months

LDS high priest arrested. Again.

your canadian girlfriend, Alli Roberts

@allitude

10 months

how is deznat handling the news?

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2 years

“Did you grow up thinking Emma Smith was Joseph’s true love and a good woman or are you old?” Quote from a protected account, so I’ll keep it anonymous, but it reveals an aspect of how the LDS church changes the presentation of its history to members.

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@ldsfootnotes

3 years

I was never in a ward where a female got to make the final call on a decision. Just saying.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

@Ch_JesusChrist

3 years

“As disciples of Jesus Christ, all are equal, with no second-class groups.” —Elder @GerritWGong #GeneralConference

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1 year

Practical Swedish translators shortened the length of the Book of Mormon 50% by using an asterisk every place the English version had “and it came to pass.” (1978 edition shown)

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2 years

OMG!! Bishop/SP counseled a sexual abuse victim to “forgive… and forget” her abuser. They referred her to an UNLICENSED family counselor who gave the same counsel. Parents took her to another counselor who reported the sexual abuse to the police.

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11 months

Transparency.

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1 year

In 2021 the LDS church received an estimated $33 billion in revenue and put 80% of it into its investment fund and about 2.7% ($900 Million) towards humanitarian causes.

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6 months

Even the LDS church admits Joseph Smith cheated on his wife, Emma. 1/3

Mr. Plumb

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6 months

It only takes a little bit of diligent searching to dispel all anti-LDS rhetoric. I hope you take the time to read what I have to say, because I have fully investigated these things, and you can find sources corroborating what I say, if you but take a moment to know for

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1 year

I’d love to see the data backing up this claim:

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“However, studying the church’s history reveals that the government has done more to alleviate poverty and vault LDS members into positions of financial security than the church’s welfare system.”

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2 years

Jesus literally criticized leaders of his religion and was executed by the Romans for his activism.

Church News

@the_churchnews

2 years

Speaking to Church-endorsed chaplains, Brother Ahmad Corbitt taught how activism against the Church can undermine the doctrine of Christ and mislead valiant souls.

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“None of the characters on the papyrus fragments mentioned Abraham's name or any of the events recorded in the book of Abraham.” This is still a big deal.

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2 years

What the hell @Ch_JesusChrist ?

长沙外围/重庆外围/成都外围/杭州外围/上海外围/苏州外围/深圳外围/广州资源/三亚外围/西安外围#

@____quesadilla

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The church just posted an article about how we should stop relying on external resources for mental health and rely on the church instead. If you wanted to know if it was a cult

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@ldsfootnotes

1 year

This is still LDS scripture.

KUTV2news

@KUTV2News

1 year

BREAKING: A Utah man who police say killed his wife, her mother and their five children before turning the gun on himself had been investigated two years prior for child abuse, but local police and prosecutors decided not to criminally charge him.

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@ldsfootnotes

1 year

Nothing says devoted husband more than marrying 50 additional wives.

Church Of Jesus Christ

@CHJesuschristCA

1 year

Brigham Young was the second President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the colonizer and builder of a great commonwealth of Latter-day Saints in the American West, and a devoted husband and father.

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2 years

Your church is currently arguing this in court:

larkpeep

@larkylulu

2 years

The question of the year. 😂 Someone please enlighten and bring us out of ignorance. Atheist vs believer This thread is hilarious.

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@ldsfootnotes

2 years

Wow. In 1950, while still married to his living wife, Flora, Ezra Taft Benson was sealed in marriage to his recently deceased cousin, Eva Amanda Benson, demonstrating the importance of the doctrine of polygamy halfway through the 20th century in the LDS church.

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@ldsfootnotes

3 years

Feel free to rehearse doubts here

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11 months

A lot of words to say yes.

Matthew Allen

@matthewallen

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When will we stop saying this. It simply isn't true. The author explains that top leadership receives a stipend. So... Apostles aren't ministry? Also... A stipend means they get paid. The second statement is stated as fact, when in actuality... We don't know. We have no idea.

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2 years

“Instead of background checks, the LDS church said its leaders use church records, and what they call ‘personal discernment.’��

From registered sex offender to church leader

Unknown to members of a southern Minnesota congregation until three years ago, one of its leaders was a lifetime registered sex offender from Utah, the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of...

www.fox9.com

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@ldsfootnotes

11 months

I’m so old, I remember when the SEC fined the LDS church and its wholly owned subsidiary, Ensign Peak Advisors, for hiding its multi billion portfolio. The LDS church, unlike many churches, still doesn’t open its financial books for inspection by its general membership.

Latter-Day Saints

@LDSMormon

11 months

No other Church has been so transparent of its history showing warts and all. Highly recommended.

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@ldsfootnotes

1 year

The LDS church will change.

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2 years

None of the current LDS First Presidency served missions.

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1 year

At the end of this segment is Christopher Waddell, First Counselor in the LDS church’s Presiding Bishopric. His bio says he was the VP of Investments for Merrill Lynch. He can’t claim ignorance for signing off on the church’s fraudulent SEC filing.

60 Minutes

@60Minutes

1 year

A whistleblower says the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ investment firm has over $100 billion – more than any religious fund in America. Instead of doing good, the church is bending the law, said a whistleblower. 60 Minutes reports, Sunday.

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2 years

Early LDS Patriarchs blessed some people with the power of teleportation, including travel to other planets. From Gregrory Prince's "Power from on High":

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9 months

I'm a BYU grad and I endorse flying the 🏳️‍🌈pride🏳️‍🌈outside BYU offices.

The Cougar Chronicle

@TheCougChron

9 months

The following professors in the JFSB proudly fly the 🏳️‍🌈pride🏳️‍🌈 flag outside their offices. Amber Jensen Charlotte Stanford Heather Belnap Marlene Esplin Jordan Jones Stephen Bay Ashley Gibby Rebecca Schweinitz Kirk Larsen Do you think flying the pride flag is acceptable at

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Grandson turns 12 in November. So he’s an 11 year old Deacon now. My daughter is frustrated because a YM leader just told her his son is acting too immature. No sh*t Sherlock.

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1 year

In 1857 the Mountain Meadows massacre occurred - about 40 miles Southwest of present day Enoch, UT. John Lee, the only person convicted for the massacre of 120 men, women, and children, was excommunicated. In 1961 the LDS church reinstated his membership and former blessings.

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3 years

It appears ANY record of Packer’s Oct 2nd 1976 conference talk, To Young Men Only, has been completely wiped from the LDS church’s publicly accessible digital repositories. It’s one thing to disavow a talk, which the church has not done, and another to pretend it never happened.

LDS Footnotes

@ldsfootnotes

3 years

Towards the end of Boyd Packer’s infamous “Little Factory” talk is him condoning violence towards gay men. The talk was widely distributed among the YM then but it now appears to have been scrubbed from the LDS conference talks site without apology or comment.

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10 months

The problem with church visits is the assumption there is something wrong with you if you choose to leave. So visits tend to be about fixing "your problem.” When my wife left, the RS president sent her a text along the lines, "No matter what you've done, we still love you"

LDS Discussions

@LDSdiscussions

10 months

I remember when the Mormon church sent the missionaries after I became a ward project and they told me this exact thing. Then I told them I'd explain my new perspective using only church sources and they sat there as I showed them the problems and they had zero answers for them.

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2 years

This stunning, anonymous account, from a self-identified LDS bishop, about his experience with a church attorney who did not want him to report child sexual abuse. “I lost my belief that the church cares about the well-being [of] its members during the time I was a bishop.”

LDS Footnotes

@ldsfootnotes

3 years

When the topic of LDS clergy privilege pops up, I think of Richard W Miller, the first FBI agent charged & convicted of espionage and an excommunicated Mormon whose supervisory chain included an LDS bishop he “confessed” to that led to his arrest:

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11 months

“What exactly does the church think is appealing to women about its concept of heaven?” - my wife shortly before she left the church.

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1 year

The LDS church had these youth for 3 hours a week, 7 with seminary. If the church’s message isn’t getting through, it isn’t TikTok’s fault.

The Salt Lake Tribune

@sltrib

1 year

Here’s how TikTok and other social media apps are providing younger generations with the information they need to make more informed decisions about their religious beliefs.

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2 years

People leave the LDS church because it isn’t what it claims. When leaders state people leave because they want to sin - it sets members up to say stupid things:

iconogazm

@iconogazm

2 years

One of my brothers sent me a conference quote today via text message and followed it up with "I know there's still good in you." I mean, yeah. Just as much as there was before. Did you think the good got sucked out of me or something? What a strange thing to tell someone.

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2 years

We don’t believe the church is what it claims. But this realization can be hard on marriages. That’s why we don’t initiate the discussion with them. But we’ll be there for them if they ask questions and we’ll help them work through it.

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2 years

Quit telling my LDS family God sends good people to hell. God isn’t the author of this:

Russell M. Nelson

@NelsonRussellM

2 years

This New Year’s Day, make one of your resolutions to be more resolute in being kind to others and strengthening your own spiritual foundation.

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