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Monthly Archives: November 2010
The Essence of Religion
Lately I’ve been thinking about the curious responses I often recieve by religious folks after I answer their questions as to why I left Mormonism and why I haven’t aligned myself with another community of faith. Except for the most … Continue reading
Dear Bishop Blog
Dear Bishop, I wrote earlier about the shame and guilt I felt growing up in Mormonism. But there was a plus side to it too: Repentance! I don’t mean the actual process of repentance but the feeling that came afterward; … Continue reading
Posted in Guilt, Honesty, Humor, Mormonism, Shame
Tagged Confession, Guilt, Mormon, Repentance, Shame, Utah
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The Power of Prayer… and a Pointless Surgery [in 2 Acts]
My Ex believed/believes profoundly in the power of prayer. Act I Me: Back when I proposed, didn’t you pray to Heavenly Father for direction on whether or not you should marry me? Her: Yes Me: Did He tell you that … Continue reading
No You Don’t
Nothing is more frustrating than sharing what you think or feel with someone and have them respond, “Oh you really don’t think that” or “No you don’t.” I remember several times just sitting by while someone I was in a … Continue reading
Ex-Gays: It Gets Better : Dispatches from the Culture Wars
A funny, funny parody on the “It Gets Better” project: Ex-Gays: It Gets Better : Dispatches from the Culture Wars.
Posted in Homosexuality, Honesty, Humor, Marriage, Shame
Tagged Ex-Gay, Homosexuality, Humor, It Gets Better
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Honey, Will You Make Me The Happiest Deeply-In-Denial Closeted Homosexual On Earth?
Link to the original article here A parody of a homosexual man proposing marriage to his straight girlfriend….painfully honest and therefore it’s hilarious. I actually prayed a very similar prayer to God just before proposing to my wife, although my … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Homosexuality, Humor, Marriage
Tagged Closeted, Homosexuality, Humor, Marriage
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Anachronistic Moral Judgment
Back when I first got divorced and came out I was asked to share my reasons for getting married in the first place if I had already known I was gay. Well, I didn’t actually already “know”. Better yet, I … Continue reading
Posted in Homosexuality, Honesty, Mormonism
Tagged Church Handbook of Instructions, Homosexuality, Mormon
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Golden Religious Questions
If you hadn’t been born into the religion of your parents, would you ever have converted on your own? The was the essential question that helped me decide to leave it. Knowing what I now know…just the facts, not the … Continue reading
Bible Contradictions Quiz Show
The following video is funny…and so true. I can only link to it. How do I embed it here like I did with Hitchens? I somehow re-posted that Hitchens video a few weeks ago and now I can’t remember how … Continue reading
Posted in Atheism, Critical Thinking Skills, Religion
Tagged Atheism, Bible, Critical thinking, Religion
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New York’s Not My Home
I gotta get out of here I’m so alone Don’t you know that I gotta get out of here ‘Cause New York’s not my home Yesterday I heard this old Jim Croce song in which he relates his experience living … Continue reading
Posted in Loneliness, Mormonism
Tagged Belonging, Coming Out, Jim Croce, Mormon, Religion and Spirituality, Tribes
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