#lds — Public Fediverse posts
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Oha, in #LDS darf man Rettungsdienst einsätze zunächst selber zahlen. 🙈😡
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Where have you seen this?
#startrek #gif #quiz #riddle #game #LDS #startrekLDS #guid81d8cb8e9eac
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What do you think?
#startrek #gif #quiz #riddle #game #LDS #startrekLDS #guid3abdc3207398
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Do you know where this comes from?
#startrek #gif #quiz #riddle #game #LDS #startrekLDS #guid550278972c95
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Do you know where this comes from?
#startrek #gif #quiz #riddle #game #LDS #startrekLDS #guid64ac1885942f
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I find the names interesting. They're way cooler than the names men gave to us when I was coming up.
'The group of girls turning 12 or 13 will now be called “Builders of Faith,” those turning 14 or 15 will be “Messengers of Hope,” and those 16 or older will be “Gatherers of Light.'
I did notice an interesting tier-structure, which mirrors the levels of heaven.
You've got your low-level laborers at the bottom, building shit. Then there's the Messengers, middle-managers who get a bit more pay for far less work. Then there's the Gatherers who are just gathering light, which is the lightest work of all, enlightened youngsters ruling over their younger, less-equal sisters in Zion.
I'd love to see the men's youth group counterpart names to represent the eternally opposing gender roles.
I suggest:
Foot Soldiers of Faith
Prophetic Preachers of Hope
Big Game Hunters of Lighthttps://www.sltrib.com/religion/2026/04/25/lds-young-women-president-emily/
(Clearly this one's lit a blog post in me.)
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Wow, big changes in the LDS Church. They're giving women so much leeway over their own organizations!
Clearly, Mormon leadership has come to respect women and expects big things from them! They've put a tremendous amount of trust in them for this monumental job! How inspired! Has any human organization ever been so progressive towards women's liberation?
It'll be difficult, but I know you can do it girls!
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Do you know the origin of this scene?
#startrek #gif #quiz #riddle #game #LDS #startrekLDS #guid93fc57664266
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Can you tell the episode?
#startrek #gif #quiz #riddle #game #LDS #startrekLDS #guid2ed4e1792e5a
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Do you know where this comes from?
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Where have you seen this?
#startrek #gif #quiz #riddle #game #LDS #startrekLDS #guid71681061eae2
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Where have you seen this?
#startrek #gif #quiz #riddle #game #LDS #startrekLDS #guid1fcecb7d01e8
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From which episode might this come?
#startrek #gif #quiz #riddle #game #LDS #startrekLDS #guid3d7caa73d851
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I saw a white evangelical basically screaming at the camera yesterday on YouTube about patriarchy, racism, capitalism, and SA, ready to split from every Christian, even the progressive ones, and while I disagreed with some of her minor points and her shouting gave me a headache, I'm emotionally so with her.
Would that even 25% of white women had even a portion of her intensity and self-awareness.
#exmo
#exmormon
#ReligiousTrauma
#antiracism
#deconstruction
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🎶 Genealogy: Are you "doing" it? 🎶
Or are you just listing names and dates so you can nonconsensually force your dead relatives to conform to some arbitrary standard of perfection in the afterlife?
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#exmormon
#ReligiousTrauma
#antiracism
#deconstruction
#BYU
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In Mormon news, BYU tried to make an indigenous student cut his braids. So fuck them.
Thankfully, they responded to pushback and now will not make him do that, but I'm sure they will continue to get away with all of their other attempts to control the hairstyles and harmless behaviors of literally everyone else.
(Which is why this issue is a "white" cause as much as it is anyone else's. My Celtic and Germanic ancestors wore long hair in all sorts of styles, and so did yours. Whiteness restricts all of our freedoms.)
#exmo #exmormon #ReligiousTrauma #exvie #exvangelical #antiracism #deconstruction #BYU #LDS #Mormon
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Please tell me where this scene occured
#startrek #gif #quiz #riddle #game #LDS #startrekLDS #guid1e9b5d96fe9d
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Do you know where this comes from?
#startrek #gif #quiz #riddle #game #LDS #startrekLDS #guid95baf649c0a7
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Hype for the Future 133LDS: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Introduction Though Joseph Smith was originally born within the boundaries of the State of Vermont, his experiences within the upper New York region had resulted in the eventual formation of the LDS Church, thus forming the modern-day concept of Mormonism. After New York, the historic sites associated with Joseph Smith had pushed increasingly westward, from a site in Harmony (now known as Oakland), Pennsylvania, west to sites in Kirtland, Ohio, followed by Nauvoo, Illinois. After being […] -
Which episode do we see here?
#startrek #gif #quiz #riddle #game #LDS #startrekLDS #guid302dc25dc89f
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I've been thinking about this for quite some time, whether I should make a song about my religious beliefs. I think that a lot of people here think that because I am very left--leaning, it means I don't believe in God, but that's just not true. I wanted to create something that would show my feelings about God and religion in general in a way that people would understand, and so I think #Music is the best way to do this. I did create this using #Suno, but I hope that this gets the message across about my beliefs. Some might hate me for it, in fact, I'm expecting a lot of hate from #Christians or believers in #God, especially members of the #LDS church, but this is how I feel, and I want people to understand my position. I hope this sparks discourse, I hope people understand where I am coming from, I want people to talk about this with me, but most of all, I just want to lay out who I am in this song.
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RE: https://mastodon.online/@xankarn/116120793504340920
#Utahns, it is our responsibility to press #GovCox #GovernorCox and #TaCOJCOLDS #LDS #Mormon church about this potential concentration camp. It is our shame that #Utah lobbied for the Topaz concentration camp in 1942, and we can't condone our state repetiting that shame again with a new concentration camp for #ICE.
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A bronze statue depicting a pioneer gardener on the estate of Brigham Young in Salt Lake City. #EastCoastKin #HistoricGardens #History #LDS #Mormon #PalacesAndGardens #Photography #Pioneer #SaltLakeCity #SLC #Utah
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Words of the Prophets – CD 7
#Christian #God #LDS #SpokenWord #inspirational #mormons #NorthCarolina
CC BY (#CreativeCommons Attribution) #ccmusic
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The LDS Church must divest from war
We legitimize war through our works, and our beliefs have followed down that same path. (Trent Nelson |…
#Conflict #Conflicts #War #2025 #cat:pj #churchofficebuilding #LDS #Religión #SaltLakeCity #slt #templesquare #USA #Utah #war
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Wow. See here is why I love the Mormon people. When they end up cutting past the propaganda that keeps them hampered, they show up with the kind of energy and moral correctness that we were taught to have, that surpasses any modern church I've ever seen.
LDS Corp has left the ICE issue up to individual wards to decide. The wards that have decided to protect their own are *going hard*. This is a fantastic model for mutual aid. This is some City of Enoch level bravery and righteousness.
They're protesting detention centers, holding services online, locking down church entrances against potential ICE raids, planning escape routes, providing information about rights and how to handle ICE, feeding people, picking up kids,
“It is my divine obligation to … be politically aware and pass along information,” [Osorio Reyes] said, “to make sure the people in my ward are informed and safe.”
The Stake President is collecting extra fast offerings to help affected families with material needs.
This is the shit I was raised on. This is the shit I was told we were to be doing. And then... we simply never did. Our energies were redirected to useless time-wasters, and more priority was placed on "sexual" righteousness and whether or not someone drank Coke. Our minds were filled with barely coded racist interpretations of the world.
This is why, for my activism focus, I chose to work with exmormon populations. Because for all the dysfunctional ways we were conditioned to be, we were also instilled with a fire. Helping exmormons (and open-minded progressive Mormons) dump the dysfunctional baggage frees us up to be a real force for good in this world. We gave a majority of our time and money to the LDS Church, so when we stop doing that, our energies are free to go elsewhere.
One note on the geopolitics of the situation: unlike other brands of Christianity in the US, the LDS Church is interestingly torn on the immigration issue, because outside of the USA, their majority membership is in Latin America.
I've got one more thing to say about top-level leadership, next post.
Archive:
Original (paywalled still):
https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2026/02/03/how-latter-day-saints-la-responded/
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Star Trek: Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way by Ryan North and Chris Fenoglio: 📚 47/2025: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: The combination of choose-your-own-adventure plotting and Lower Decks humor works really well. https://michaelhans.com/eclecticism/2025/08/24/star-trek-lower-decks-warp-your-own-way-by-ryan-north-and-chris-fenoglio
#ChrisFenoglio #LDS #LowerDecks #RyanNorth #StarTrek #StarTrekLowerDecks #Books #Photos #StarTrek
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is growing rapidly.
Perhaps one explanation lies in Mormon readiness to use hardball tactics and massive wealth to crush any they perceive as opponents.
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Not too keen on the #LDS running the #FamilySearch site, but I must admit that they're really on to it. Collecting family trees. Trying to get as much info on to #Gramps, but have to go back to 1620...so far. A mission that I'll work away at, little by little, day by day. All saved locally. #genealogy
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#TIL that god-botherers have a lot of servers.
What on earth do they need that many for?
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Something I can't say on #facebook without repercussions from family and friends: faith is dead, long live faith.
I left the #lds church after about 40 years (Exodus joke here). The main reason was that I just stopped believing all the doctrine. Every "spiritual experience" I'd ever had could finally be explained much more easily by basic things I understood about humans and myself than by religious concepts.
And since then I have those "spiritual experiences" over and over. I feel what I would have once identified as The Spirit when I read about refugees or people who overcame great odds; when I hear moving music or watch an emotional scene in a movie.
The past few days I've been having spiritual experiences every time I feel a glimmer of hope for the continued existence of my democracy, or when I read about ways of helping vulnerable populations survive this administration.
I said "long life #faith" but that's not quite right. I don't have the kind of faith I had as a religious Mormon person. I am working on whether faith is a relevant concept anymore, for me. Hope, however--hope is something I understand and need.
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CW: Religion, straight x gay marriage
I was devout LDS until my early 40s. The church has always opposed "gay marriage". My wife (in my early 30s to early 50s) and I had conversations about how much gay marriage was already in the church. We were in one--i.e., she was gay, as it turns out. We knew others in gay marriages, as well. Sure, at least one of the people in each such marriage was apparently straight, but there were a lot of gay/queer/trans/other-LGBTQIA+ people in Mormon marriages. Maybe more than in the less-conservative population, IDK.
Which the church didn't do anything at all to deter. In fact, the policies + culture aggressively encouraged it. GayIsBad + NobodyIsReallyGay + GetMarriedNoMatterWhat = lots of closeted queer folks.
Perhaps obviously by this point in this long post, that didn't work out and there were 15+ years of guilt, remorse, anguish, and assorted suffering all around. Digging out of that has taken half our adult lives so far. This has been the dark matter influencing our relationships with friends and family (mine still devout LDS), our work productivity (we're both uni profs), our scholarly productivity or lack thereof, and even our ability to do the mundane like get our bills paid on time and make sure the car doesn't die from lack of maintenance.
We have done everything we can to prevent this all from affecting our parenting, and our 13 y/o is amazing, so I hope we've kept their reasons-for-therapy-at-age-25 to a minimum.
I guess TL;DR: gay/queer marriage is common in conservative, anti-LGBTQ American Christian groups, just not the healthy kind.
(and now it's almost 7 a.m. and time to get aforementioned kid to the bus stop)
#lds #lgbtq #marriage #mismatch #religion #missedOpportunities
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#MittRomney is high in the #LDS heirarchy. He could help in #Arizona. #Election #Mesa #MormonsForHarris
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The 1832 account is the earliest known version, written in Joseph Smith’s own handwriting 12 years after the event and there is no other contemporary record from anyone. It was written in a letterbook but never publicly known until the 1960s. This version was removed from the letterbook and hidden in a safe when Joseph Fielding Smith first found it because it was so strange.
#Mormon #JosephSmith #firstvision #exmo #iwasamormon #exlds #ldsquotes #ldschurch #lds #exmormon #1832
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The 1832 account is the earliest known version, written in Joseph Smith’s own handwriting 12 years after the event and there is no other contemporary record from anyone. It was written in a letterbook but never publicly known until the 1960s. This version was removed from the letterbook and hidden in a safe when Joseph Fielding Smith first found it because it was so strange.
#Mormon #JosephSmith #firstvision #exmo #iwasamormon #exlds #ldsquotes #ldschurch #lds #exmormon #1832
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The 1832 account is the earliest known version, written in Joseph Smith’s own handwriting 12 years after the event and there is no other contemporary record from anyone. It was written in a letterbook but never publicly known until the 1960s. This version was removed from the letterbook and hidden in a safe when Joseph Fielding Smith first found it because it was so strange.
#Mormon #JosephSmith #firstvision #exmo #iwasamormon #exlds #ldsquotes #ldschurch #lds #exmormon #1832
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The 1832 account is the earliest known version, written in Joseph Smith’s own handwriting 12 years after the event and there is no other contemporary record from anyone. It was written in a letterbook but never publicly known until the 1960s. This version was removed from the letterbook and hidden in a safe when Joseph Fielding Smith first found it because it was so strange.
#Mormon #JosephSmith #firstvision #exmo #iwasamormon #exlds #ldsquotes #ldschurch #lds #exmormon #1832
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https://wasmormon.org/why-worry-about-different-versions-of-the-first-vision/
Hinckley says he's not worried that Joseph Smith's multiple versions of his First Vision. He dismisses these different versions of the vision without ever mentioning any differences in the accounts. His goal is calming members who have heard of these strange accounts, and hope they will not look at them.
#Mormon #JosephSmith #gordonbhinckley #firstvision #exmo #iwasamormon #exlds #ldsquotes #ldschurch #history #religion #Mormonism #lds #exmormon -
https://wasmormon.org/why-worry-about-different-versions-of-the-first-vision/
Hinckley says he's not worried that Joseph Smith's multiple versions of his First Vision. He dismisses these different versions of the vision without ever mentioning any differences in the accounts. His goal is calming members who have heard of these strange accounts, and hope they will not look at them.
#Mormon #JosephSmith #gordonbhinckley #firstvision #exmo #iwasamormon #exlds #ldsquotes #ldschurch #history #religion #Mormonism #lds #exmormon -
https://wasmormon.org/why-worry-about-different-versions-of-the-first-vision/
Hinckley says he's not worried that Joseph Smith's multiple versions of his First Vision. He dismisses these different versions of the vision without ever mentioning any differences in the accounts. His goal is calming members who have heard of these strange accounts, and hope they will not look at them.
#Mormon #JosephSmith #gordonbhinckley #firstvision #exmo #iwasamormon #exlds #ldsquotes #ldschurch #history #religion #Mormonism #lds #exmormon -
https://wasmormon.org/why-worry-about-different-versions-of-the-first-vision/
Hinckley says he's not worried that Joseph Smith's multiple versions of his First Vision. He dismisses these different versions of the vision without ever mentioning any differences in the accounts. His goal is calming members who have heard of these strange accounts, and hope they will not look at them.
#Mormon #JosephSmith #gordonbhinckley #firstvision #exmo #iwasamormon #exlds #ldsquotes #ldschurch #history #religion #Mormonism #lds #exmormon -
https://wasmormon.org/joseph-smith-was-a-glass-looking-treasure-digger/ The church denied the strange magic practices of Joseph's Smith. Facts they now claim were commonplace. The church apologists yearn to dismiss the practices as astrology or gambling today, but does that make them better? They denied Joseph was involved and that he used his seer stone for treasure digging out translation.
#Josephsmith #Mormon #history #lds #exmo #exmormon #LDSchurch #lies #exmormonbecause #Mormonism #ldshistory #HughNibley #denial #fraud #Mormonism #exlds
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https://wasmormon.org/joseph-smith-was-a-glass-looking-treasure-digger/ The church denied the strange magic practices of Joseph's Smith. Facts they now claim were commonplace. The church apologists yearn to dismiss the practices as astrology or gambling today, but does that make them better? They denied Joseph was involved and that he used his seer stone for treasure digging out translation.
#Josephsmith #Mormon #history #lds #exmo #exmormon #LDSchurch #lies #exmormonbecause #Mormonism #ldshistory #HughNibley #denial #fraud #Mormonism #exlds
