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Date: March 28, 2024 05:55AM
What proper cult doesn't have people constantly living in fear of the end of the world? You'd almost get the impression that they were trying to pretend to be normal or something.
Are you ready for Doomsday?
BWWAHAHAHA...
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https://religionnews.com/2023/01/26/for-todays-mormons-its-food-storage-lite/For today’s Mormons, it’s Food Storage Lite
From two years to one year to six months to three months: Food storage requirements aren’t what they used to be for Latter-day Saints.
Church leaders in previous decades were full of creative ideas on where and how to store giant buckets of wheat, rice and other staples. You could use the buckets and #10 cans as pillars for a child’s platform bed, or put a piece of plywood and a tablecloth on a row of buckets and call it a coffeetable.
And it wasn’t just about storing food; you were supposed to grow and can your own. I learned how to make jam from a Relief Society sister in the 1990s, and how to make a very basic quilt. Mormons today are still known for activities like quilting and preserving, but more as an art form than as the mode of survival they were just a few generations ago.
Theologically, there’s also been a marked shift. Food storage is now tied primarily to a family’s ability to weather ordinary problems — a job loss, a health crisis — rather than to the imminent end of the world. There are still doomsday preppers in Mormon culture, but that sensibility is no longer mainstream.
Gary and Gordon Shepherd have chronicled the rise and fall of General Conference topics in their book “A Kingdom Transformed,” exploring the main changes from 1830 to the present. One of those is the gradual disappearance of eschatology. We still talk in spiritual terms about the “gathering of Israel,” but no one is telling members from the pulpit they should be buying land in Jackson County, Missouri, to prepare for a Second Coming that’s right around the corner.
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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/28/2024 06:04AM by anybody.