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CA girl
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Date: October 22, 2011 01:07AM
because people don't live up to their temple covenants, which leaves them in Satan's power. People get depressed, yea unto suicide, if they don't live up to what they promise the Lord.
I didn't let her get away with it and used Uchtdorf's talk against her - the one where he tells women to quit worrying so much about being perfect. I told her it was more likely the way Mormon women feel they need to be perfect, more than develop character and quoted the high rate of plastic surgery in Utah. I wish I'd mentioned the fact that the majority of people in Utah haven't been through the temple - either because of their age, personal choice or not being LDS. And of the let's say, 49 percent of people in Utah who have been through the temple, probably 29 percent still have current temple recommends. So seriously, the other 20 percent account for the spike in depression? Seriously? Mom - Mormonism is making you stupid.
My brilliant 15-year-old said it was a good thing he wasn't on the other line when I was talking on the phone to Grandma because he would have said "Maybe going to the temple in the first place makes people depressed and suicidal." Which I would agree with because I had a case of low-grade depression/blues that coincided with me taking out my endowments and went away almost entirely when I took OFF the garments.