Posted by:
reinventinggrace
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Date: January 10, 2013 03:43PM
Which deity did you lose belief in first -- God or JS?
In a brilliant post, Amos2 wrote:
"Realizing God is bogus, IMO, is on a steeper glideslope than Mormons realizing their sect is bogus with respect to God.
I think in 100 years God will be fighting for His Holy Life. Joseph Smith may still be around too...a small fish to fry...and thus the SS Minnow goes down because it was tied to the Titanic."
http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,756028I lost faith in JS first, and God and Jesus followed about 24 hours later.
But, in retrospect, I had doubted God long before I doubted JS. God was the one behind the whole shaky affair, God was not delivering no the various promises I was supposed to have by being a righteous individual. God seemed to have bizarre, difficult-to-swallow rules and regulations pertaining to this life on earth, etc.
But I think I believed in God *because* I believed in The Mormon Church and JS. In the end, it took JS to fall before God fell, in my beliefs.
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Amos2 proposes that with upcoming generations God is going to have a much tougher time of it than in the past. I grew up in the 70s and 80s, lots of folks believed in God, God had a role for many of my Christian friends in HS, etc.
I take great joy in Amos2's theory that God may be on his way out, which will undermine the whole Mormon affair in ways that will be difficult for it to reckon with.
Your thoughts, your experiences?
RG
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