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CA girl
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Date: March 13, 2012 03:16PM
That's what makes it so easy for them to believe and so easy for them to deny the stuff they don't want to see. I hear Mormons contradict what the church teaches all the time, while swearing that the church doesn't teach something when, in fact, the church teaches exactly that. Anything they don't want to see is just a member acting out or a leader "speaking as a man" or is denied entirely
The prime example of this is when I point out the church teaches something to DH and it goes against his personal beliefs, he tries to shrug it off as "well, that's what the church means ... people just have trouble living it." Mormon doctrine is just so jello-like that it will fit into any mold of preconception that a person holds, taking the shape of that jello-mold. That's how people on the I'm A Mormon website can brag the church teaches women to get an education and develop their unique talents, the same week an apostle stresses the importance of women staying home with children and keeping house. To hear my mom talk, Mormons all share a more mainstream Christian belief but my raised in Utah in-laws see Mormon beliefs quiet differently.
I'm not explaining this very well but you know what I mean? It seems so easy for people to blow off our complaints about the church, what it teaches, how the members treat others because in their imagination, they see the church the way they want to see it, not as it really is. So they can't see the problems because they are sure the church teaches what they believe, not that they believe what the church teaches.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/13/2012 03:17PM by CA girl.