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I hope everyone has a year this year. Let's hope this year years better than previous years.

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I hope everyone who believes that the LDS Church's rules are too strict and that our religion asks too much of us looks back at, like, any other religion. Every member who complains about the requirements being too hard should try to live according to the laws of Islam for like, a week.

"Ohhh but garments cover so much skin and they're so uncomfortable" you've never been hate-crimed for wearing a hijab. You can show your arms; plenty of other people can't.

"The Word of Wisdom is too strict" your diet coke addiction says otherwise. Imagine your current diet but you can't eat pork or gelatin or eat from animals slaughtered in a haram way. Imagine not being able to go out to eat because the food is prepared on a skillet that made bacon that morning. You can eat meat and pork and cheese together, unlike our Jewish friends who practice kosher. There are so many other religions that can't drink alcohol, we're not special.

"Fast Sunday is so harddd" try Ramadan on for size. Fast Sunday is 2 meals once a month, if that. You've never watched your friends sleepily trudge through 40 days of fasting all day.

"Reading your scriptures and praying every day?? That's obsessive" well we can do it anywhere. We don't have to stop our schedules 3 times a day to run to a plain room and face Mecca and pray. We can read our scriptures on a phone in the bathroom.

Like, I'm not saying that the Church is easy. There are a lot of requirements; the Lord makes things difficult for us because it shows Him we care when we put effort into following His commandments. But claiming that we're radical and cultish because of the things we require is so ignorant and dismissive of other religions. We've got it pretty good, all things considered.

(look at what i have to offer) — this is the spider's nest.

OCD is picking a single bean out of your chili because it looked at you wrong and you can just tell that eating it would be a mistake

Will you!?

It's not enough for this many bodies

The muppet archives

I just finished The J. Golden Kimball Stories by Eric Eliason, and I enjoyed it. A good 3rd of the book was an introduction about J. Golden and how folklore functions as a study and within Mormon culture. There is also a percentage breakdown of swearing (74% contain swearing, 51% contain hell, 36% contain damn, 3% contain SOB, and 4% contain "stronger language").

Here's one explanation as to how these stories function in Mormon society, and some of my favorite stories from the book (1 of which is just a general humorous story).