#Tumblrstake

[disciplecat]

i was at relief society when one of the older ladies at church (i’m using this as an excuse for her ignorance) made a comment how if she’s having a faith based conversation and someone mentions that they are anything OTHER than LDS — she simple tunes them out. their opinion is irrelevant to her and she does not care anymore because they are wrong.

as members of the church we are used to being ignored and judged for our faith but there comes a point where we have to acknowledge our own silent judgements when it comes to other people no — matter how minor they are.

in her case it wasn’t minor. if this was an year ago i would’ve stayed quiet and let her continue to spill the same hate, but fortunately i am no longer that 17 year old girl hiding a book of mormon from her parents and i know that my opinions are just as important as someone who has been here longer than i have.

i raised my hand and told her that there are millions of people who do the same to us — and if they were to keep the same attitude as her, to tune out due to difference, then bringing people to christ would be impossible.

i wouldn’t be in that room.

i refuse to believe that my parents are damned just because they worship differently. i refuse to believe that this is the only way and i was just “extremely lucky” because i was able to find it. my mothers prayers sound different when she hums them over me, but they still feel all the same. on easter, i go to church twice because there’s a girl inside me that still does the sign of the cross and hangs a rosary over rear view mirror. religion is so confusing at times, but it only has to make sense to you.

God loves you regardless of what building you walk into, but it’s our job to make sure that people feel comfortable walking into ours — that the seat next to us is full of love.

[obsessingoverl]

@salubriousbean

The way the kids take over and leave the droid to “babysit” the adult and it’s on a planet where “the kids are treated like adults” like they want to be and that’s a ruined broken planet and they find out it’s not so great and it is kind of nice having the adult step in except on the other side there’s Neel who is Wiser in his childlike wisdom than the adults, as if maybe the solution isn’t actually to treat the kids like adults but that all the adults need to become like little children

[secret-sageent]

I love going to church and institute but then sometimes I forget that homophobia exists and I hear my brothers and sisters talking bad about pro-queer legislation and similar things and I am like

oh

Sometimes it really does feel like it is me against the world😔at least Jesus got me. Jesus doesn’t care

[hiseyeisonthesparrow]

Today in BYU news:

All of the students named "Tanner" are planning on gathering at the Tanner building, presumably to fight to the death to determine who is the True Tanner

[nerdygaymormon]

[personal-progress-dropout]

“Well, it would confuse the kids if trans people were teachers.”

You know what else is confusing? Being told my entire life that I would be exclusively attracted to men when in fact I am a raging queer. And you’re not giving kids enough credit, if they can handle topics like ‘you have a set of earthly parents and a set of Heavenly Parents and both are real parents to you’ then they should understand the concept of being trans.

Also, I’m not sure if they’ll care. God knows me and my friends were only in primary for the songs and the fruit snacks.

[gay-mormon-wizard]

I am a TRADITIONAL MORMON and I follow TRADITIONAL MORMON VALUES

I am a COMMUNIST

I believe in PRISON ABOLITION

when I see someone being HOMOSEXUAL or TRANSSEXUAL, I mind my OWN DAMN BUSINESS

I support ROBUST URBAN PLANNING

I think all young women should learn INTEGRATED PEST CONTROL

I like my women how I like my men: VOTING IN EVERY ELECTION and BECOMING DOCTORS

I believe people are INHERENTLY GOOD and need to be ENCOURAGED WITH COMPASSION, not CONTROLLED WITH AUTHORITARIANISM

I think HANDCARTS are the BEST WAY TO TRAVEL

I practice WITCHCRAFT, MAGIC, DIVINATION, and ASTROLOGY

FOLLOW MY BLOG FOR MORE TRADITIONAL MORMON BELIEFS

[shrubseph]

I do not "struggle with same-sex attraction", I struggle with heteronormativity and internalized homophobia.

[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.

[churchsideblog]

seeing people discussing the concept of hell and how cruel the idea of eternal punishment is like, wow! i know this belief system you would love if not for your knee-jerk reaction against its name

[j-the-latter-gay-saint]

thinking about Her (elizabeth bennett's daydream of standing up and throwing a hymnal at mr collins in the middle of his sacrament meeting talk and clocking him dead in the face in the 2003 mormon movie adaptation of pride and prejudice)

[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

[latter-day-saint-nick]

Some Jehovah's Witnesses came round to have a chat about the Bible, which turned into a deep theological discussion, and I gotta say, it's always so weird to remember that other Christians have a completely different interpretation of the Adam and Eve story than we do. It feels genuinely wild to me that most Christians believe that it was God's plan for mankind to stay in the Garden of Eden forever, and never learn about good and evil.

[secret-sageent]

You guys don’t even know. You don’t even know about my Book of Mormon playing cards

EDIT: my sincerest apologies; it seems there is a high demand to see said cards and I neglected to include them lol

Behold <3

[hiseyeisonthesparrow]

[through gritted teeth, with fists clenched]

When upon life's billows you are tempest-tossed, when you are discouraged, thinking all is lost, COUNT YOUR MANY BLESSINGS, NAME THEM ONE BY ONE, AND IT WILL SURPRISE YOU WHAT THE LORD HAS DONE-

[nerdygaymormon]