Before The Crows Nest

A common trope in the LDS community is that Former members can leave everything they once firmly believed and held dear, but they just can't seem to leave it alone. For these members it confirms the validity of the underlying truths of their gospel. 

The leaders of the church wearing latter-day masques of warmth and love does not entitle us to forget what their religious doctrines and policies are like when they think they can get away with it; current and generational. 

In September 2020, Brad Wilcox was a guest for the Sunderland England Stake Fireside Series. One of his remarks sparked a campaign in the ExMormon TikTok community. I used to wonder about this topic a lot, and my Skousenite upbringing had me curious... 

Here we are with Anti-mormon Literature, Chapter Six. Thank you to all who supported me through this experience and process. 

With no plans to write much of anything after chapters three and four I was inspired by the prophet to say some more after he gaslit the sisters in his discourse, "Embrace The Future With Faith." This rhetoric was compounded upon the following conferences as he coined the lazy-learner mormon memetic. 

Upon hearing the rhetoric of a relief society session and then not soon after being subject to Nelson's "lazy learner" dialogue, I had some thoughts to compile on the matter. Should we be embracing the future with faith, or embracing what we have here and now?

In this chapter and episode I read through chapter four of Anti-mormon Literature: Essays They Warned You About. It reflects on the nature of self and the For The Strength of Youth manual. 

Now the story of a Former Mormon who lost faith in everything but who had no choice but to help talk sense into the rest of the community. It's Exrrested Development. 

This is becoming a much more relevant topic these days, and I have felt this way for some years now. 

Love you all. 

Excerpt from Anti-mormon Literature: Essays They Warned You About (Chapter 6, Exrrested Development)

I often wondered why it was that Christ had to undertake such unhinged brutality to save us. Why and how is there no other way? Oddly enough, upon deconstructing the immoral worldview behind the Atonement I discovered the hidden secret to the future of Latter-day Saintism. The key to Heavenly Mother, women in the priesthood, and Eternal LGBTQIA families is already set forth. It also holds the answer to why criticizing church leaders is a bad idea for faithful members. Though those particulars are not discussed directly within this chapter it is the same as the answer to the necessity of the atonement. 

Citations: 

(Only including main narrative citations here):

2 Nephi 2:14

D&C 93:29

(D&C 76:93)

Abraham 3:22

D&C 93:30-34

2 Nephi 2:25

DHC Vol. 3, Ch. 25

Abr 3: 3

Abr 3:18-22

(D&C 88:40)

Abr 4:18

D&C 29:36, Moses 1:4

D&C 63:59

Mormon 9:19

D&C 29:29

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2 Nephi 9: 7-9

D&C 93:31

D&C 29:43

D&C 76:32