Even if Mormonism is false, it is still worth believing and ought not be refuted. Faith is ultimately irrational. Even if you don’t believe in God, you should still stay on the membership rolls and consider yourself a Mormon. If the LDS Church isn’t true, there is no God. How you live your life is more important than what you believe. I can’t believe in a God who demands worship. It doesn’t matter if it’s true. What matters is whether it is official. I proudly mentally disassociate from the content and implications of my belief system. I know the Church is true. I have no idea what that means. There was a conspiracy to fundamentally corrupt the Bible. It is untrustworthy and we look elsewhere for truth. Apart from Mormonism, I have no good reasons to believe that Jesus rose from the dead. The existence of my personhood is not owing to any god. Everything is matter and nothing is immaterial. There is no ultimate personal being who is the ground of all other being. There is no first cause. There are impersonal eternal laws that govern everything.
Thoughts? This makes no sense to me. Sounds like the schizophrenic ramblings of an EV frustrated at the lack of success in his ministry. A mishmash of unrelated thoughts about Mormons.
"It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey." - Soren Kierkegaard
Nelson Chung wrote:http://blog.mrm.org/2013/03/the-creed-of-practical-mormon-atheism/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MormonCoffee+%28Mormon+Coffee%29
Even if Mormonism is false, it is still worth believing and ought not be refuted. Faith is ultimately irrational. Even if you don’t believe in God, you should still stay on the membership rolls and consider yourself a Mormon. If the LDS Church isn’t true, there is no God. How you live your life is more important than what you believe. I can’t believe in a God who demands worship. It doesn’t matter if it’s true. What matters is whether it is official. I proudly mentally disassociate from the content and implications of my belief system. I know the Church is true. I have no idea what that means. There was a conspiracy to fundamentally corrupt the Bible. It is untrustworthy and we look elsewhere for truth. Apart from Mormonism, I have no good reasons to believe that Jesus rose from the dead. The existence of my personhood is not owing to any god. Everything is matter and nothing is immaterial. There is no ultimate personal being who is the ground of all other being. There is no first cause. There are impersonal eternal laws that govern everything.
Thoughts? This makes no sense to me. Sounds like the schizophrenic ramblings of an EV frustrated at the lack of success in his ministry. A mishmash of unrelated thoughts about Mormons.
I'm an atheist and it makes no sense to me. I may criticize some aspects of Mormonism, but not on the grounds that Mormons are atheists.
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
