#The Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

[historynerdj2]

I find filters help with that (to the many artists out there, no offense is meant with this. Draw what you want, I have no interest in dictating what others should or shouldn’t draw)

I forget that artists I follow can draw whatever they want. Listen, go for it! But I am Mormon, and anytime I see a suggestive art post I get caught off guard, I look at their profile and go “Oh, yeah, that’s [———], I followed them for their [PJO/EPIC/Anything Else] art!”, and then I just continue to scroll lol.

NOTHING against them, just catches me off guard as an artist who will not ever draw anything sexual or suggestive, I forget that we can do that lol

[jibberwockk]

I have met exactly two types of Mormon grandparents when it comes to soda

It’s either:

hates it with vigor, believes that it is against the words of wisdom

Or:

Addicted

[heathersdesk]

There are a lot of adults going to church today who are going to be Pikachu-face surprised when they get to judgment and are handed a millstone to place around their necks because of how unsafe they've made this world for children.

[eve-ate-the-right-fruit]

Things that did NOT make me consider leaving the church:

coming out as queer

every time I find out another cool thing about Quakerism

Things that did make me consider leaving the church:

seeing 2 (TWO!) cybertrucks in the temple parking lot

[hiseyeisonthesparrow]

What the frick happened to pass-along cards??? Where did they go??

They used to be EVERYWHERE when I was growing up. I feel like I have not seen one in years.

Pass along cards I miss youuuuuu

[latterdaydaisy]

You know I really relate to Joseph Smith because imagine you’re this kid who just wants to know God and He reveals Himself to you, gives you direction, and you literally can’t deny what you know, but everyone around you criticizes you. I too was a kid who just wanted to know God, and He did reveal Himself to me (although not in the same manner) and frankly I can’t deny what I know. He loves me, as I am. Queer and all. So I feel crazy when everyone around me is telling me the revelation I received can’t possibly be true, but I know what I know. I can’t deny it. Like Joseph, I’ve been asked to walk a path that’s new and scary, but ultimately serves a purpose.

[secret-sageent]

Do you think Christ would say

“Send the immigrants away”

Do you think Christ would say

“Love your neighbour unless they are poor, brown, black or gay”

I don’t think Christ would preach

Hate in the streets

Arrests of the homeless

The downtrodden

The queer

Forcing them to live every day in fear

Yet here we are

Forgetting “love your neighbour”

Unless they are straight and white and able

I think Christ cries when He sees what we’ve done

When we see how we treat people’s friends, sisters, parents and sons

So I will cling to my faith

I will cling to my love

I will cling to my faith in a better heaven above

Because the Lord said love my children

And for Him I will try

To love and to care for those facing abuse

And so maybe, just maybe, my Lord won’t have to cry

[roses-red-and-pink]

Lolol sometimes it’s so funny reading peoples posts about “Mormon” theology that is based on Exmo stories, tradition/culture but not doctrine, and like random statements by some church leader 200 years ago that was not put into doctrine/canonized, or that he was corrected/reprimanded on, and all of us look back on like “well that guy was racist/sexist. Anyways moving on…” like tbh it just makes me laugh. Like I know our theology is a bit different than mainstream Christianity but y’all don’t need to make it sound like we are out here truly believing half the stuff you say about us.

[christiansinternational]

[demigodofhoolemere]

Let’s go!

[icarianlibrary]

"Cult!"

And it's literally me just reading my Book of Mormon and highlighting verses to send to my friends

[child-of-asbestos]

someone send me back in time so i can absolutely ravage joseph smith's ass and stop the mormon church from happening. i wanna fuck that little twink until he's seeing angels in the woods. some good dick wouldn't have fixed him but it would've made him found a considerably gayer cult at least

[heathersdesk]

"Do not let them make you feel small."

[hiseyeisonthesparrow]

Phrases like, "it did rack my soul with inexpressible horror", "Oh, thought I, that I could be banished and become extinct both soul and body", and "for three days and for three nights was I racked, even with the pains of a damned soul", and "have mercy on me, who am in the gall of bitterness, and am encircled about by the everlasting chains of death" seem like raw lines from classic literature but no. Alma 36.