Posted by:
forestpal
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Date: October 27, 2014 01:17PM
OK, I get that the cult advises its members to get married--to whoever--gay, straight, abusive, arrogant--as long as you get married in the temple. All of the advice serves the cult, and the members can just pray it all away. It happened to me, when I married an abusive RM, who had a hidden history of assault and battery. He had also beaten his sister and put her into the hospital, and had killed several neighbors' pets. All the church leaders I knew, including my own GA relative and my parents, advised me to marry him, even when I had a bad case of "pre-wedding jitters." I should have run, when my heart told me to.
An unqualified lay leader in a church should not give marital advice, psychological counseling, career guidance, sexual advice. Scientific advice. How about medical advice I got from my bishop, HT, and the stake presidency: "Keep on fulfilling your sacred church callings, and God will give you the health and strength to carry them out. If you quit your callings, you will get sicker."
"Vote for Romney. Vote for Huntsman. Support Proposition 8."
What TSCC wants is for its members to follow BLINDLY. "The thinking has been done. Don't ask questions. Don't investigate. If your heart is telling you to go against church advice, then your heart is being led by Satan."
What got me through my lifetime of Mormon oppression, was outside reading and learning, and the rule I learned at a very dear price: "To follow the heart is the truest wisdom"--Leo Tolstoy. If I had listened to my own heart, I never would have shunned people of other races, never would have married a wife-beating thug, never would have obeyed my parents and kept quiet about my brother's bullying, would have married my atheist boyfriend. Seeing the Truth about Mormonism, and understanding that I was brainwashed and manipulated from birth, helps me to forgive myself for sacrificing myself to blind obedience.
"Let's go shopping!" I'm going to follow that advice today.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/27/2014 01:18PM by forestpal.