Tag: conscience
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Freedom of Religion
The Restored Gospel would have not been possible without freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion. It is no coincidence that the world was only ready for modern revelation in the United States where those freedoms are at least theoretically guaranteed. The LDS Church does not go where it would be…
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Opiate of the Masses
More than a hundred years ago Karl Marx famously said that “Religion is the opiate of the masses.” The world has moved on and people at least here in the United States can choose their religion or no religion at all. And yet we are still being sedated as a country and as a society.…
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Humoring Trolls
I shouldn’t feed trolls on the internet. I shouldn’t give them the time of day. I shouldn’t humor them. But I’m also not afraid of anonymous accounts on the internet. People who hide behind fake names to bully and badger others are contemptible and sad. It’s my pity for the internet troll that makes it…
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Provisional Thinking
I have come to the realization that one of my more peculiar quirks is that I reject ontological certainty as a class. I have a desire to continue a lifelong journey of learning. I wish to increase my share of both human and divine knowledge. That takes a level of humility on the lines of…
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Conscience is Atomic
For many years I have asserted that freedom of religion is an inferior way to talk about liberty than freedom of conscience. The biggest reason I have put forth is that appeals to religion shut out a significant portion of the population. It is, and I know this from experience, hard to convince an atheist…
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Developing and Expressing my Conscience
Why do you blog? Tonight I am answering a prompt twenty minutes after it went live because I’m having trouble sleeping. Sometimes that’s all there is to it. Just an addiction to my phone and the need to tell the world something/anything. But in the long run I hope it helps me to be more…
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Believing in Something
There’s an old adage that goes: if you don’t believe in something you will fall for anything. Some people believe Jesus Saves. Some people believe that It Takes a Village. And some people believe in self reliance. They all have merits. But when it comes right down to it I believe in something else. I…
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You Matter
You have inherent worth as a unique human being and deserve to live with dignity. What you think, and say and do makes a difference in the world. You deserve to be heard. You deserve to have a voice in what you do and what others do with you. You have probably been told that…
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Refocus
Today I am trying to refocus on things of eternal significance and being distracted by my politics and the cat. It’s hard to remember sometimes that the neediest people are actually image bearers of God. And our family has its own needs. It’s very easy for my adult children to become dysregulated when I’m attending…
Latter Day Sinner 