🌍🌏🌎 Global (now former) Mormon

There are more Mormons and ex-Mormons outside than inside the US. Their voices get lost in a sea of US-centric voices here. Hope I can help counter that trend!

[🌍🌏🌎 Global (now former) Mormon @global_mormon]

May be a pet peeve, a personal preference, something of no substance. But I've always struggled with the use of "live action" models for depictions of Jesus. I feel it for the random dudes that have to see their face for years in printed church materials as "the face of Jesus" :/

[🌍🌏🌎 Global (now former) Mormon @global_mormon]

@BradenDisguised "Maybe you are asking the wrong question"-type book

[🌍🌏🌎 Global (now former) Mormon @global_mormon]

@whitecatprophcy Well, it is the great day of [his] power indeed 😐

[🌍🌏🌎 Global (now former) Mormon @global_mormon]

@LDSMormon Yeah, the great premortal council happened in the late 1800s or early 1900s, as we clearly voted against socialism.

C'mon

[🌍🌏🌎 Global (now former) Mormon @global_mormon]

@religiongal I think that, while well intended and a step in the right direction in terms of being proactive about problematic church history, they didn't get it right...

And I think it's impossible le to get it right, maybe, just maybe, because it was *never* right?

[🌍🌏🌎 Global (now former) Mormon @global_mormon]

@LeilandTanner @BSpackman Well, which answers to your last question are you willing to entertain?

Because the obvious, simplest, "path of least resistance" answer to it is... he was an unhinged paranoid man who happened to land a higly influential role in the church. Unfortunately.

[🌍🌏🌎 Global (now former) Mormon @global_mormon]

@Ch_JesusChrist Good. Feels like 249,999,700,000 to go :)

[🌍🌏🌎 Global (now former) Mormon @global_mormon]

@ThoughtfulSaint @janariess @RNS k*

[🌍🌏🌎 Global (now former) Mormon @global_mormon]

@ThoughtfulSaint @janariess @RNS What an idi*t. Ad-hominem atach fully intended.

[🌍🌏🌎 Global (now former) Mormon @global_mormon]

@ldshymnstats @cardinestwit Yup 172, typo!

[🌍🌏🌎 Global (now former) Mormon @global_mormon]

@melonakos @religiongal Your statement stands indeed. It stands as meaningless to the wider discussion. Just trying to deflect addressing the complexity of this with semantics.

That's some 'I've said nothing about Father"-level stuff you've done. Not sure that's the team you want to be in.

[🌍🌏🌎 Global (now former) Mormon @global_mormon]

@natehowe @TheStakeClerk Wait, you had youth that played the piano? And... you had a piano? #globalmormon

[🌍🌏🌎 Global (now former) Mormon @global_mormon]

@ldshymnstats Amazing Grace AND Come Thou, Fount... plus This Is the Christ as musical number and My Shepherd Will Supply My Need in the prelude!

All the greatest hits from the new hymnbook selection in one weekend :)

[🌍🌏🌎 Global (now former) Mormon @global_mormon]

@ATRightMovies

[🌍🌏🌎 Global (now former) Mormon @global_mormon]

@DavidBOstler What an absolute failure of our faith. I don't think I could worship in Utah anymore without feeling threatened by my very brothers and sisters

[🌍🌏🌎 Global (now former) Mormon @global_mormon]

@_Kristine_A Will listen to it. I've only read one article by him that I remember, where he showed how ultraorthodox creationist thinking had percolated into the CES Institute OT manuals that I found super interesting

[🌍🌏🌎 Global (now former) Mormon @global_mormon]

@andynewmanlpc Something about the gospel being nitroglyceryn... but that with the church, it can be dynamite?

[🌍🌏🌎 Global (now former) Mormon @global_mormon]

@matthewallen @andynewmanlpc That was a Kerriane Conway-esque talk of the level of her "Alternative facts" thesis

[🌍🌏🌎 Global (now former) Mormon @global_mormon]

Are we really using dynamite as a symbol of the gospel and the church??????? #genconf #generalconference

[🌍🌏🌎 Global (now former) Mormon @global_mormon]

@Exchairstacker In my previous ward, if you made a histogram of age groups, you had decent quantities in the 0-12 and 12-18yo groups. From 18-30? Low single digits, plus a couple recent converts. No more than 5. And it's not that we had lost them to singles wards...