"I SO look forward to the Second Coming when Jesus will return and make everyone who doesn't believe like I do weep and wail and gnash their teeth in agony."
I was listening to a conversation between two high schoolers and a college student who were standing next to me. As they asked her about her beliefs, the college student said she had taken classes on different religions and thought they all had good things but none of them were the single truth, so she didn't subscribe to any of them. When she left, one high schooler turned to the other and said, "Wow! Is SHE goes to hell I won't be sad!" Then they both burst into giggles.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand; A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
I would absolutely love it if one fine day a mormon told me, "I told you so" as they languished in their mansion on high and I watched from outer darkness. At least then I would know the truth.
Growing up in tscc I always thought the Mormon version of the sky daddy return was so arrogant and narrow minded. Now I think of it as a sad joke that has destroyed so many families.
Wishing that on other people is like drinking battery acid, but that's icing on the cake. Poisonous ideology that steals people's lives through thought control and manipulation is just evil.
That's what we're against here, not belief per se.
I'm fine with a Second Coming as long as the first critters to show up are acid-drooling xenomorphs like in "Alien" who chase down all the Mormons and eat their faces.
I just hope somebody gives me a heads-up beforehand because I totally want to pop a big kettle of popcorn soaked in melted butter before the s--- comes down.
(I would be cool if it happens during General Conference. I can see Eyring asking everybody to vote on something when suddenly the doors in the back of the tabernacle burst open and dozens of starving xenomorphs scamper in and start eating faces...)
Evangelicals LOVE Israel, and really support the place. But in the end, they believe that Kee-rist will return there, destroy the Jews, and claim Israel for the Christians. I don't get the contradiction.
Maybe they think the Jews are keeping the place from getting all muslim while they're waiting...? Sort of like somebody taking care of the house while you're away, but in the end you're going to kick them out and take over the house.
Well in my head, I will be in heaven as a proud gay man and Thomas Monson will be my maid. He can either be my maid or be deported to outer darkness. Your choice Tommy.