TheGreatJouneyIsA

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This is about the US Securities and Exchange Commission suing the church. Any football stuff is purely coincidental since I'm clueless on that front lol.

As an active Mormon, you are typically expected to:

  • Have a "good, better, best" mindset. Sure, what you're doing could be good, but is it the best thing to spend time on? Only things that involve the church are the best use of your time.
  • Read scriptures every day.
  • Attend several hours of mind-numbing meetings every Sunday. In the case of bishops, this is almost the entire day.
  • Attend weekly activities with other people in the church.
  • Avoid doing most "worldly" things on Sunday, effectively reducing the weekend to one day.
  • Go to the temple as often as you can, where you sit through boring ceremonies that take a minimum of a couple hours out of your day.
  • Research family history so you can do more boring temple ceremonies.
  • "Hold a calling," which is volunteer work for the church that can range from a few hours a month to a part-time (unpaid) job.
  • "Minister" to someone, which means you're an assigned friend that tries to keep the other person spiritually healthy.
  • Clean the church building on random Saturdays.
  • Watch 10 hours of General Conference every 6 months.
  • Spend 18-24 consecutive months as a full-time missionary. No, I don't mean 40 hours per week. I mean all day every day. It completely consumes your life during that time.
  • Even when that's over, you're still expected to seek out opportunities to bring people into the church. This makes interactions with non-members a lot more exhausting and inauthentic than they should be.
  • Get married ASAP and have lots of kids.

I'm sure there's more I forgot to include, but I think these posters get the vibe across:

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10/10 teasing lol. I think the ex-Muslim guy would be happy to know his story played even a small part in possibly helping someone be more open-minded.

Yes! I didn't read the whole thing, but there was a ton of helpful stuff in the parts I did read. Thanks for responding and making sure I've heard of it. It really is an awesome book.