They have been wrong on most things.
How does your husband and family feel about your converting to the Catholic Church? Welcome home and prayers. God Bless, MemawWe never really got much in the way of instruction on what it’s like to be an eternal wife and have spirit children. There is Heavenly Mother who is the supreme example of motherhood, but we were never taught much about her or her role, and we were never really allowed to even talk about her. If we talked about anything, we talked about if we really would have to share our husbands. That is a huge fear among LDS womenfolk which is rarely discussed. Most of them, especially those who married young, tell themselves that Heavenly Father would never command THEIR husbands to have plural wives. It would always be someone else who would have to share her husband. I was a single woman in the LDS church for a long time (married at 30) so the fear of polygamy was forefront in my mind. I did not want to be some man’s bonus wife who just bears spirit children and not have any kind of real relationship. I cannot tell you of all the pain and heartache I felt in my 20’s because I thought that this would be my eternal lot.
Eternal polygamy is the unspoken fear of many LDS women who actually think about LDS doctrine. I struggled with it as long as I could remember until I figured out that Joseph Smith was a false prophet. Huge burden lifted when I finally realized that.
In all honesty, I never really felt that marriage and family life was my vocation. I felt like I had to get married because that is what was expected and required of me. Don’t get me wrong, I love my husband and children but my identity does not revolve around them. I would be just as happy without marriage and children. I am also a working mom, so I was also a bad Mormon mother, even though my children always stayed with grandparents and have never been in daycare.
I actually always admired Catholic nuns. Many years ago, I was visiting Trinity University in Dublin with my parents and saw the Book of Kells exhibit. I made the comment that if I were alive back in the Middle Ages, I would have wanted to be a nun. My good Mormon mother was shocked that I wouldn’t want to get married and have children. It was my eternal destiny!
Yet many Mormons continue to believe their leadership?
The vast majority of LDS have little or no knowledge of their church’s history or the teachings of former prophets; nor do they care about it.Yet many Mormons continue to believe their leadership?
The few who care and find out usually leave.
so, now we have two topics that you do not think are true yet you are wrong about.
Yep. Most do not really know the problematic past and weird teachings and doctrine. The leaders have too much invested to come clean. And many just bury their heads in the sand or make a practice of nonsensical apologetics that might make them feel good but make no logical sense.Yet many Mormons continue to believe their leadership?
Or is it more of a deliberate move NOT to study the history of the LDS church and it is so-called prophet? Afraid of the results?
So in others: Come up with some good words to cover it up?
Exactly! The LDS church and Jehovah Witnesses share so much in common.
My husband was Eastern Orthodox and now Eastern Catholic so he is very happy. Our children are ages 3 and 5 so they are just going with the flow. They actually like to go to Mass to be with Jesus. LDS sacrament meeting was boring for them, and it was very difficult to keep them entertained. Everyone in our household is happy!
In some cases, yes. There is certainly a lot of head-in-the-sand action. Can’t say as I really blame them.Or is it more of a deliberate move NOT to study the history of the LDS church and it is so-called prophet? Afraid of the results?
Ah, TOm, that brings back memories! Some happy, even. I’ve read many articles on exactly what PaulDupre1 described, and I have spoken with scores of Mormons and ex-Mormons. Personal experiences are valid indicators! There is more information than just personal experiences, however, but some personal experiences are, to paraphrase a General Authority, “less helpful.” The experience of someone who only knows only current members, for example, would be less helpful, or one who knows only ex-members. I wonder why the General Authorities aren’t willing to openly share the myriads statistics they have collected on revenue and expense, retention and attrition?
Hi Tom,
It didn’t use to bother me much that they didn’t know about even people named in the New Testament as being faithful Christians including householdsful. Nor that they were ignorant of Eusebius. But now it does. Since I expect my own children to know something about that, and since Eusebius is, well, vital. He should be absolutely required reading, kind of like “Post-Acts” Acts.
What a simpleton I have been. What a fool I have been. RebeccaJ, I thank you from the top of my heart. Horses. I had always thought in terms of skeletons. But where horses are ridden and driven, there will be . . . artifacts! The Nemesis of Mormonism. Saddles, tack, stirrups, at least according to Mormon artists’ renditions. Table decorations, paintings, figurines galore. What animal has taken a predominant place in any culture, whose culture did not create artistic reproductions of that animal - horse in post-discovery America, cow and elephant in India, seal among Eskimos, whale among the Pacific Northwest tribes, pig and chicken as well as horse in China, hippopotamus and giraffe in Africa, camels wherever they are. I’m just thinking, don’t know if this is accurate or true. Seems like it might be.
Indeed. Much easier to turn the blind eye,then accepting concrete evidence.
Does this make it easier to believe? It is from USA Today.
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