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Date: August 18, 2022 07:07PM
https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2022/08/18/jana-riess-dear-latter-day“It’s natural at different points of your life to outgrow your old faith, or to doubt certain parts of it. Your old faith, like the caterpillar’s body, used to serve you well, until suddenly it didn’t. This could happen once, and it could happen several times. Some people never experience it, or they are so fearful of the possibility of change that they fight it tooth and nail.
Rather than being afraid of this transformation — or expending the considerable energy it takes to stop it from happening — it helps to simply accept it as one particular stage in your evolution. An attitude of acceptance, even welcome, can keep the natural process of outgrowing your faith in perspective. It’s neither good nor bad, inherently; it just is.
Some people do leave the church after a faith crisis. Others, like me, choose to stay. (This is where the caterpillar-to-butterfly metaphor breaks down: Butterflies don’t stay put after their adult transformation and can in fact migrate for hundreds or even thousands of miles. There’s no law that says you can’t opt to remain in Mormonism with a faith transformed.) Rather than focusing right now on a particular outcome, just notice the changes that are happening to you, and marvel.
You’re not crazy. You’re not wrong. You’re not apostate. You’re just changing.”
Some (morally bankrupt) people choose to continue identifying themselves as ‘Saints’ after a faith crisis, despite learning that they were born into an abusive CULT with a serious child rape problem, that continues to dehumanize ‘others’ (women, minorities and gays) when in reality, there are no ‘others’, just us humans.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/18/2022 07:20PM by schrodingerscat.