Posted by:
georgedubya
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Date: December 07, 2010 10:32PM
As a teenage ExMo who hasn't actually come out yet about my apostasy, I am still expected to go to seminary, the Morg-instituted gospel education program for high schoolers. This year we are learning the D&C/Church History (y'know, the whitewashed version). I've never really studied D&C outside of the juicy stuff like Section 132, etc, but from what I've learned from this class.. Nothing could be a faker attempt at writing revelations from God. Old English mixed in with words that just happen to have a holy connotation; good one Joseph Smith!
The absurdity of the scriptures we read is just the beginning, the class itself is pretty bad. We're the group that does jazz band before school, so class starts at 5:30AM; I have to get out of bed by 4:30-45. Our teacher is a nice lady who can be fun to talk to.. as long as it's not about the Gospel. She is pretty much every TBM annoyance imaginable wrapped up into one. Some of the ridiculous things I've witnessed her do just this year include:
•Gushing about how the law of consecration is a wonderful idea, when really it's glorified socialism.
•Read on to us about the prophecies concerning the end of the world.. as she and the class laugh on and on, as though it's fiction (when they should be believing otherwise).
•In the middle of a lesson, she suddenly goes on a monologue about how we're the chosen generation, cleave to our covenants, etc, which brings her and her 17 y/o daughter (also a student) to tears.
So RfMers; just how bad (or good?) was seminary for you as a TBM?