As you are probably already aware I spend way too much time on Facebook. I really love looking at memes and occasionally make a few myself. There’s a page called Mormonr that posts quality Mormon themed memes. I got into an argument today over the use of the word: thy. If I use thy I’m probably closer to orthodoxy than I am most of the time regardless of the context. I love The Book of Mormon and think its precepts are the most correct of any book. I don’t care that it came from a man sticking his face in a hat. I don’t care that the historacy is questionable at best. And the anachronisms are charming because they say as much about 19th century America as they could possibly say about ancient America. I think I approach The Book of Mormon with my eyes wide open and also think there is not another book in the world like it.
But I’m not a worthy Latter Day Saint. To start I haven’t been to a Sacrament Meeting in months. I’m drinking a lot of coffee and using a little recreational THC. I also owe the church money. To be worthy I would have to start paying tithes again and promise to keep paying them. And Lord do I wish You would command me to take multiple wives. I love Stephanie so much I want three more of her in my life. She has decided multiple wives is nonsense again, so unless God gave me very specific instructions I should safely rule that out. I haven’t done so and the desire to be polygynous is one more detriment to my worthiness. And the prize if I changed all that is that I would get to go to the temple… By myself. No one else in my family wants to be a worthy Latter Day Saint either. The motivation just isn’t there.
And still I stay in The Church. There’s a passage in the Gospels after people stop following Christ where he asks Peter “Will you go away too?” Peter basically answers “Where would I go?” He didn’t have any other options considering what he believed was true. What I believe is unorthodox and more to the point in LDS doctrine is unworthy, but it’s pure heresy anywhere else. So I hold my Book of Mormon loosely but I still hold it. I don’t know any other way.
Latter Day Sinner 