The LDS Church taught me to prize my integrity—so I did. And discovered their giant lack of it. Talk about one hell of a cognitive dissonance.
And yet Mormons will keep assuming my anger, grief, sadness, and pain is due to my own sin and apostasy.
@Kitsterrific It does. Think of wearing sleeveless as exposure therapy. It helps build new neurons to overcome the conditioning and indoctrination that has us thinking of shoulders as 😱
@planetJoseph These are at least funny. I roll my eyes when I hear a Utahn trying to be cool by changing Utah’s “Oh my heck” to “Oh my hell.” I have NEVER heard anyone other than those from Western Mormonland say it.
@mormon_satan Depends on whether you value truth over those benefits.
I left because wanting the truth broke through indoctrination. Hurt like hell, but I couldn’t live a lie.
@aWolfAlexander @EmBeihold It can also be biological. Different neurotypes will respond differently to different chemical substances. Some brains are just wired differently.
@MormonsTattling How relieved I am for their children. Nearly as relieved as I was for mine when their mental health improved by letting go of religious scrupulosity.
@stackerco I respect your views and agree with many. Personally, as an exmo woman, I don’t think the church is evil. But I do think it is extremely harmful due to its patriarchal structure. I know so many people who are struggling as a result of learned patriarchy, of all genders.
@sheepfuzz@_Cultch Oh yes. He’s given that talk multiple times. Someone even wrote a letter about it prior to him getting caught publicly with his pants down.
I wish LDS people would understand that a person simply telling their story, without vitriol or rudeness, isn’t “bashing the church.”
They want us to do the “respectful” thing & go away quietly. Anything else is an attack, even if it’s a song about a mom’s love for her gay son.
You know, talks about integrity just don't hit very hard when the organization that delivers it recently argued in court that it's perfectly okay for them to know child abuse is going on and then do nothing to protect that child or even report the abuser.