Every time Christmas season rolls around I start thinking about whether or not I should perpetuate the Santa Claus myth when I have children of my own. I know I know, it’ll be a while before I have my own kids, but that doesn’t mean I can’t think about it. I’ve finally developed my opinion [...]
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November 25th, 2009 | Religion | 4 comments | Rate this post:
Tags: atheism, Christmas, God, Santa Claus In light of many of my friends returning from missions and many others deciding to go, I decided to check out the list of questions a bishop is supposed to ask when members are interviewing for a temple recommend. Most of it isn’t too surprising, your standard fare “do you believe? well, do you? do [...] October 12th, 2009 | Religion | One comment | Rate this post:
Tags: atheism, atheist, blood atonement, hell, LDS, mormon, temple recommend If you have the preconceived notion that you can leave the Mormon church scot-free, drop it now. There are many, many issues you have to deal with when leaving the church, but I want to focus on the misinformed moral code you’ve most likely acquired. The church lets you know exactly what is appropriate and [...] An atheist group in Colorado recently put up 10 billboards for display this Christmas season. The billboard simply says: “Don’t believe in God? You’re not alone.” There is nothing offensive in this statement, and the accompanying picture is merely a cluster of clouds, but somehow this sign has managed to anger many Christians before it [...] I’m not sure what prompted the thought, but I was recently thinking about the last talk I gave as a member of the LDS church. At that time I was really questioning all of my beliefs and I couldn’t bring myself to give a speech on church doctrine I didn’t actually believe in. So I [...] September 18th, 2008 | Religion | One comment | Rate this post:
Tags: Jesus, LDS, mormon, role models, speech, talk I had heard a lot of stories about the Mormon church giving people a hard time when they tried to leave, but I really didn’t expect to come across any hiccups. I was wrong. Legally I am no longer a member of the LDS church just by sending them a letter saying I no longer [...] I must admit I’m quite surprised at the utter lack of interest in why I left the LDS church. I know there were rumblings about it at the time, because I only told about two people what I was doing, and that was my brother and my mom. Yet somehow all of my [...] |
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