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There's a kind of two-step evangelicals perform against LDS and Catholics, since we are institutional faiths, they can lay every charge directly against the church, but if we bring up, say, the Salem Witch Trials, or Luther's anti-Semitism, or Tammy Faye Baker, or any other series of obviously corrupt and evil Protestant practices and doctrines, they can always shrug and say, that wasn't REAL Christianity. Being Protestant means you are a diffuse target and are always at least a few steps aways from having to take accountability for the works of your faith.
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Why are marriage and birth rates falling among Latter-day Saints young adults? Sure, culture plays a role, but there's one source you might not have thought of before: parents.
About 10 years ago, BYU professors started polling their students about their barriers in dating and marriage. They've noticed a sizable shift in the answers over the past 10 years: parents urging their kids to delay marriage. Many couples visit them in their offices, saying:
"We're in love, we can't stand being apart, we've even prayed about it many times and we feel so good about it, but our parents are saying no. And they don't even have a great reason for no other than 'we just need to wait.'"
One professor asks his class to "raise your hand if your parents have incentivized you to NOT get married." And "it's pretty consistently about a third of them" and "it's a higher percentage of women than men."
Somewhere along the line, in our desire to make sure our kids had a realistic picture of marriage, we also stopped teaching the blessings and duty of marriage like we once did.
Interview with the BYU professors below. Great resource. This whole series on the Family Proclamation is amazing 👇
youtu.be/zjlRtG2Dxdw
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Precisely. Many of the pro-choice arguments made today were made regarding slavery before abolition.
Slave owner: I can’t afford to free my slaves, my business will suffer.
Pro-abortion: I can’t afford having a baby, it will impact my career and lifestyle.
Slave owner: I’m not forcing you to own slaves, leave me alone.
Pro-abortion: I’m not forcing you to abort, leave me alone.
Slave owner: Slaves are my property, I can choose what to do with them.
Pro-abortion: It’s my body, I can choose what to do with it.
Slave owner: My rights come before the rights of slaves.
Pro-abortion: My rights come before the rights of the fetus.
Slave owner: If my slaves are freed, they will suffer, living on the streets without a job and starve.
Pro-abortion: If all these unwanted babies are born, they will end up on the streets and suffer.
Slave owner: A slave has no rights.
Pro-abortion: A fetus has no rights.
Slave owner: Slavery has been practiced for eons. It is our heritage!
Pro-abortion: Abortion has been legal for decades, it is our right!
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Has it crossed anyone else's mind, that in the push to make everyone open-minded, we were, by necessity, pushing people to be more manipulatable.
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Imagine you're a girl born in 1998.
At five years old Disney tells you confidence means defiance.
At eight years old school teaches assertiveness.
At twelve Dove tells you to love yourself exactly as you are.
At fifteen Instagram tells you to protect your peace.
At twenty therapy tells you compromise is people pleasing.
At twenty-five TikTok tells you "No is a complete sentence."
Taken alone, these messages can be dismissed as harmless.
The question is what happens when they all point in exactly the same psychological direction for an entire lifetime.
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Is America’s penchant for talk therapy making us better off or worse?
@JonathanAlpert takes on his own profession in the new book “Therapy Nation.”
“The more therapy people get, the more fragile, anxious, and dysfunctional they seem to become. This isn’t just an individual crisis — it’s a societal one,” Alpert writes.
He’s not without critics.
Read more on if the culture of therapy tearing us apart in the thread below.
✏️: @Grahamtoday, Deseret News
🎨: Eliza Anderson, Deseret News
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one thing I think people miss here: Mormons don’t get worked up over this because they want to be seen as a creedal church. They are wrestling over sovereignty about who gets to define the word “Christian.”
The bid is less “we’re just like you,” more “that’s not your word.”
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I'm pointing at the thing you call the moon, and saying it's the moon, & you're telling me I believe in a different moon actually
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Offering some hopefully kind words to anyone who might be the parent of a full-time young LDS missionary - or will be in the future...
Along with my wife, I recently served an 18-month mission as an Area Medical Advisor. We covered 13 missions in the North America Central Area, dealing with the physical, mental, and emotional health of hundreds of missionaries.
I'd estimate that probably 94-95 percent of missionaries are enthusiastic, faithful, hard-working young men and women and get along great with their companions.
But somewhere around 5-6 percent of young missionaries struggle. And some struggle mightily! Some struggle with depression, anxiety, autism, and/or ADHD. Others just don't really want to be out in the field serving a mission and drag their feet daily.
Mission Leaders - the Mission President and his wife - leave their lives, their families, their work, and their careers for three years to truly live the Law of Consecration presiding over missions. It's a 24/7/365 calling. My wife and I grew to admire and respect these couples greatly! It just might be the hardest calling in the entire church!
In many cases, their greatest challenge wasn't dealing with the missionaries, it was dealing with the parents of the missionaries!
If you're the parent of a missionary, and you start getting calls from a concerned Mission President, please don't make his life and his job harder. Please accept that he is doing his level best to help your child. He and his wife are inspired, and they're right there "in the arena" with your child.
Also remember this: If your child is a virtually non-functioning missionary, that also destroys the mission experience of his or her companion! And that's not fair to the companion.
Also remember that the Mission President is typically responsible for around 150 or more missionaries. He simply cannot devote all of his time to your child.
So, if you receive concerning calls from your child's Mission President, it's perfectly fine to offer your thoughts or suggestions to him. It's also perfectly fine to urge and encourage your child to work hard and follow the counsel of his/her Mission President. But please don't dig in your heels and oppose the Mission President.
Yes, you know your child. But you don't know your child living far from home under the stress and demands of a full-time mission.
We honestly experienced parents who would state, "President, you can send my son home. But we're not going to pick him up at the airport. If he comes home from his mission, he's on his own!" Don't be that parent.
Also - to all LDS parents: Teach your children to do hard things as they're growing up. A mission is a hard thing. Very rewarding, but hard. It was pretty clear to us which missionaries had never done hard things.
And one last thought: Service Missions are real missions! Service Missions are NOT "less than." There are many ways to faithfully serve the Lord. Service Missions are one of those very valid ways. We came to love Service Missions and Service Missionaries!
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A @UChicago economist documents a "happiness crash" in America--a "sudden, sharp & historically unprecedented decline in self-reported happiness." This article is silent on the one variable he found most predictive of this happiness crash: marriage.
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For 160 years, "Nahom" in the Book of Mormon was a name that didn't exist anywhere on Earth.
Joseph Smith dictated it in 1829 — the desert place where Ishmael was buried in 1 Nephi 16:34. The text uses the passive: "the place which was CALLED Nahom." Lehi (a prophet in the BofM) didn't name it. It was already there.
In 1988, German archaeologists excavating the Bar'an Temple at Marib in Yemen recovered three votive altars donated by men of the NHM tribe — dated to the 7th–6th centuries BC. Same name. Same century. Same region.
In Hebrew, NHM means "to comfort." In Arabic, NHM means "to mourn." Both meanings collapse onto the very moment a father-in-law was buried in the wilderness.
How could a 23-year-old farmboy in upstate New York have named an Arabian tribal burial ground in 1829 that wasn't excavated until 1988?
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😳 There be GIANTS there!
Biblical texts and ancient documents make not infrequent mention of giants living among the children of men. Found in 1948 among the Qumran caves, the Book of Giants depicts a curious story about the prophet Enoch.
120 years before their discovery, Joseph Smith produced The Book of Moses, which conveys the SAME story. How did this unlearned farmboy get this right –– along with the actual name of the giant, Mahijah?!
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A content creator and an IP attorney break down the church’s lawsuit against “Mormon Stories” and the reality of brand confusion. | By Jasmin Rappleye and Brittany Ratelle deseret.com/opinion/2026/04/…
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Didn’t put two and two together till today 😂… y’all talking about him blocking you… and I’m like… why?
Then I saw he’s the punk that does the Mormon Stories Podcast! I’m slow. My bad.
I listened to his podcast while trying to listen to actual podcasts about the church… years ago… I felt extremely confused and deceived. The episode wasn’t blatantly anti… but I remember thinking “this is so not right”… Everything about the podcast looked like it was affiliated with the church… and I recall it was around the time when I’m a Mormon was going around.
This dude 💯 knows what he’s doing and I’m glad he’s being called out.
Forgive me for being 10 years behind. I’m new here.
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The notion that the Garments of Skin given to Adam are passed down from generation to generation and contains a civilizational power is not something we invented for the Godsdog series.
It is described in the book Jasher and then other later traditions. The traditions usually go until Jacob taking them from Esau after Esau stole them from Nimrod. We then continue this tradition using the prophetic transfer of a hairy garment with Elijah, pushing that logic until St John the Baptist. After that, we speculate about who and how that power is held.
The garments of skin are real enough for this story to have survived in second temple literature, and they are real enough that Christian authors like St Gregory of Nyssa make them into an image of exteriority and our passions.
So that makes them pretty real.
At 10 years old, I would suggest you simply ask your son who he thinks would have the garments of skin today.
Hey @PageauJonathan, my 10yr old son wants to know what happened to garments of skin and whether they're "real" after reading God's Dog 1 & 2 multiple times. Not sure how to answer his questions in a way that would make sense to him.