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Infernal Legion Podcast #046

On this #SinisterScuttlebutt episode of the official Infernal Legion podcast, a panel of Legionnaires discuss beards and religious exemptions in the military, Veteran Treatment Court, and the affect of felony convictions on a veteran’s compensation. On 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑻𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓, Magister Campbell talks about veterans doing business internationally and an obscure Constitutional law all veterans should be aware…

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The Carnux Sounds: You are the Magician

I once believed in a divide between the sacred and the mundane, but as I’ve journeyed through life, I’ve come to understand that everything holds a sacred essence. The notion of the mundane is simply a perspective. Within this reality, every aspect is imbued with significance and holds a sacred quality. If we can have […]The Carnux Sounds: You are the Magician

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tumblr gets uncropped version. have my dess interpretation

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i choked

on my first gulp

of water

on this hot

hot

late august

afternoon

it reminded me

of you

your sweat

percolating

at your temple

i praised

you

studied

you

religiously

devoted

as air

and liquid

filled

my mouth

my lungs

throat

thoughts

longed

to worship you

in the summer

but august is ending

and our love is too

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Wandering

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"𝙊𝙗𝙫𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙡𝙮, 𝙢𝙮 𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙎𝙝𝙚𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙨. 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙙𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙤𝙬𝙣 𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙞𝙧 𝙛𝙧𝙮𝙚𝙧." - Alternate Gabriel

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Where to Confess your Sins

If you’ve grown resentful of your church but you still need to atone, here are a few places that can step in as your personal confessional

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The Natural history of Religion

The most prolific Philosopher on the subject of the natural history of Religion, is without a doubt David Hume. In his book The Natural History of Religion Hume speaks of the idea of polytheistic religions which were developed through the feelings of fear and hope. Looking at the theory in more detail, David Hume articulates […]The Natural history of Religion

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In a universe where the crusades weren't absolutely horrible and reprehensible, a goose going on a crusade would make a banging children's book

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jenndoesnotcare replied to this post:

Every time LDS kids come to my neighborhood I am so so nice to them. I hope they remember the blue haired lady who was kind, when people try to convince them the outside world is bad and scary. (Also they are always so young! I want to feed them cookies and give them Diana Wynne Jones books or something)

Thank you! Honestly, this sort of kindness can go a really long way, even if it doesn't seem like it at the time.

LDS children and missionaries (and the majority of the latter are barely of age) are often the people who interact the most with non-Mormons on a daily basis, and thus are kind of the "face" of the Church to non-Mormons a lot of the time. As a result, they're frequently the ones who actually experience the brunt of antagonism towards the Church, which only reinforces the distrust they've already been taught to feel towards the rest of the world.

It's not that the Church doesn't deserve this antagonism, but a lot of people seem to take this enormous pride in showing up Mormon teenagers who have spent most of their lives under intense social pressure, instruction, expectation, and close observation from both their peers and from older authorities in the Church (it largely operates on seniority, so young unmarried people in particular tend to have very little power within its hierarchies). Being "owned" for clout by non-Mormons doesn't prove anything to most of them except that their leaders and parents are right and they can't trust people outside the Church.

The fact that the Church usually does provide a tightly-knit community, a distinct and familiar culture, and a well-developed infrastructure for supporting its members' needs as long as they do [xyz] means that there can be very concrete benefits to staying in the Church, staying closeted, whatever. So if, additionally, a Mormon kid has every reason to think that nobody outside the Church is going to extend compassion or kindness towards them, that the rest of the world really is as hostile and dangerous as they've been told, the stakes for leaving are all the higher, despite the costs of staying.

So people from "outside" who disrupt this narrative of a hostile, threatening world that cannot conceivably understand their experiences or perspectives can be really important. It's important for them to know that there are communities and reliable support systems outside the Church, that leaving the Church does not have to mean being a pariah in every context, that there are concrete resources outside the Church, that compassion and decency in ordinary day-to-day life is not the province of any particular religion or sect and can be found anywhere. This kind of information can be really important evidence for people to have when they are deciding how much they're willing to risk losing.

So yeah, all of this is to say that you're doing a good thing that may well provide a lifeline for very vulnerable people, even if you don't personally see results at the time.

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