I'm an LDS member, though I'm what people consider a Jack Mormon. At first when I started traveling down this long road of what is unacceptable within the LDS religion I was so scared. I kept it from people; I was what one would call ashamed.
At 16 I was taught by MANY missionaries and by many I would say at least a good dozen for a good 8 months. I was finally baptized on August 4th, 2007 by Elder Zeiner (Erik Zeiner) and it was phenomenal. I've never felt so clean and pure and happy, ever. I went to church religiously, literally. Until November 14th, 2007 which is when I was in my car accident. My family read scriptures to me, I had many blessings and my mom even told me about this time with my scriptures. She handed me my scriptures and I turned to Alma 32:21 without even being able to see my scriptures because of my halo and I pointed to this scripture which was all time favorite "And now as I said concerning faith—afaith is not to have a perfect knowledge of things; therefore if ye have faith ye bhope for things which are cnot seen, which are true." My mom tells me how amazing that moment was. I believe I got into that accident for a reason. Even after being baptized I had a hard time believe there was this person otherwise known as God. He knew He needed to show me that He was real. He proved that through a miracle, me. I'm a miracle that shouldn't have done half of the things I have so far.
I went to church after for a couple years. I got my patriarchal blessing my senior year. My junior year and senior year I was steadfast with it and then when we moved to West Valley City is when I started to fall away. I went at least twice a month but soon that became once every other month, etc. When I moved out on my own a year ago at first I didn't want to and then I found which church I was supposed to go to. Well, I went one week and the next week it was burned down. I know that's not a sign but that's what it felt like. So, I stopped going. The bishop's wife called me and told me where they were at and so I went one more week. At this point it was about 7 months since I had set foot in a church so it was really awkward. My morals were still high but I skipped out on a few of them and I wasn't feeling worthy. At this point I just stopped altogether. It was like a meat market, you were supposed to go there and meet someone and fall in love, get married and start having babies. It's not my time yet and it's nothing but awkward silence and I'm over that. There has to be more to the world than that.
Last night I watched a movie called Gandhi. Talk about open your eyes to the world. I talked to my boyfriend about where I could go and repent and he offered to take me to his Temple. He's a Buddhist and I'm super fascinated in learning about a new religion (or way of living) that really hasn't been brought to my attention. I stayed up until about 3:45 am or so studying and researching and really trying to find this essence I'd been missing out on. I even wrote down this thing that is just title Confession:
All the evil karma committed by me since of old,
On account of greed, anger & folly, which have no beginning,
Born of my body, mouth & thought -
I now make full open confession.
Now if just saying that doesn't make you feel re-born I'm surprised. I meditated a little, at least what I know as meditation and a lot came to me. I'm still lost, I won't deny that but I'm so much more at peace. My only problem at this point is who do I announce when I pray? Last night before and after meditating I said a prayer and I started it by saying, "Whichever God may be listening to me please hear my prayer." I just asked for strength to get through whatever they thought I needed strength to get through. He or She for that matter knows me very well and I could ask for a million things but (S)He is going to give me what I need.
Now my Dream is Peace . . . as any of you who read my blogs know. Do any of you know what I think will bring Peace on Earth? Religious Tolerance. I think through Religious Tolerance would benefit not only America but the whole entire world. For any of you reading this not in America I'm sure you think oh man look at Western Society and you're right but I accept your ideologies so just accept mine. I'm not here to bash your religion and I'm not here to hate your religion. I'm here to accept it.
I'm a person who believes in religious tolerance in my eyes that means I believe every religion is true. Let me explain before you think something that maybe you shouldn't. Just listen and hear me out. I believe the Lord wouldn't put a sole religion on this planet. Everyone has different perspectives, ideologies, thoughts and opinions. He knows us, all of us and He knows how to reach different people in different cultures and in different worlds.
After doing some research my "definition" is pretty darn close. "Religious and social conservatives often interpret the phrase as related to a person’s beliefs about other people's different religious beliefs. It means that, to be tolerant, one must accept all religions as equally valid and true.
This is close to a religious concept called "pluralism" which states that all religions are true and valid within their own cultures." One problem is that if diverse beliefs are all true, then absolute does not exist. These conservatives generally find unacceptable. Also, taken to a logical extreme, this definition of tolerance would require people to accept the existence of Yahweh, Allah, the Wiccan Goddess, Thor, Re, Jupiter, Venus, Diana, Fergus, etc. as real Gods and Goddesses."
At 16 I was taught by MANY missionaries and by many I would say at least a good dozen for a good 8 months. I was finally baptized on August 4th, 2007 by Elder Zeiner (Erik Zeiner) and it was phenomenal. I've never felt so clean and pure and happy, ever. I went to church religiously, literally. Until November 14th, 2007 which is when I was in my car accident. My family read scriptures to me, I had many blessings and my mom even told me about this time with my scriptures. She handed me my scriptures and I turned to Alma 32:21 without even being able to see my scriptures because of my halo and I pointed to this scripture which was all time favorite "And now as I said concerning faith—afaith is not to have a perfect knowledge of things; therefore if ye have faith ye bhope for things which are cnot seen, which are true." My mom tells me how amazing that moment was. I believe I got into that accident for a reason. Even after being baptized I had a hard time believe there was this person otherwise known as God. He knew He needed to show me that He was real. He proved that through a miracle, me. I'm a miracle that shouldn't have done half of the things I have so far.
I went to church after for a couple years. I got my patriarchal blessing my senior year. My junior year and senior year I was steadfast with it and then when we moved to West Valley City is when I started to fall away. I went at least twice a month but soon that became once every other month, etc. When I moved out on my own a year ago at first I didn't want to and then I found which church I was supposed to go to. Well, I went one week and the next week it was burned down. I know that's not a sign but that's what it felt like. So, I stopped going. The bishop's wife called me and told me where they were at and so I went one more week. At this point it was about 7 months since I had set foot in a church so it was really awkward. My morals were still high but I skipped out on a few of them and I wasn't feeling worthy. At this point I just stopped altogether. It was like a meat market, you were supposed to go there and meet someone and fall in love, get married and start having babies. It's not my time yet and it's nothing but awkward silence and I'm over that. There has to be more to the world than that.
Last night I watched a movie called Gandhi. Talk about open your eyes to the world. I talked to my boyfriend about where I could go and repent and he offered to take me to his Temple. He's a Buddhist and I'm super fascinated in learning about a new religion (or way of living) that really hasn't been brought to my attention. I stayed up until about 3:45 am or so studying and researching and really trying to find this essence I'd been missing out on. I even wrote down this thing that is just title Confession:
All the evil karma committed by me since of old,
On account of greed, anger & folly, which have no beginning,
Born of my body, mouth & thought -
I now make full open confession.
Now if just saying that doesn't make you feel re-born I'm surprised. I meditated a little, at least what I know as meditation and a lot came to me. I'm still lost, I won't deny that but I'm so much more at peace. My only problem at this point is who do I announce when I pray? Last night before and after meditating I said a prayer and I started it by saying, "Whichever God may be listening to me please hear my prayer." I just asked for strength to get through whatever they thought I needed strength to get through. He or She for that matter knows me very well and I could ask for a million things but (S)He is going to give me what I need.
Now my Dream is Peace . . . as any of you who read my blogs know. Do any of you know what I think will bring Peace on Earth? Religious Tolerance. I think through Religious Tolerance would benefit not only America but the whole entire world. For any of you reading this not in America I'm sure you think oh man look at Western Society and you're right but I accept your ideologies so just accept mine. I'm not here to bash your religion and I'm not here to hate your religion. I'm here to accept it.
I'm a person who believes in religious tolerance in my eyes that means I believe every religion is true. Let me explain before you think something that maybe you shouldn't. Just listen and hear me out. I believe the Lord wouldn't put a sole religion on this planet. Everyone has different perspectives, ideologies, thoughts and opinions. He knows us, all of us and He knows how to reach different people in different cultures and in different worlds.
After doing some research my "definition" is pretty darn close. "Religious and social conservatives often interpret the phrase as related to a person’s beliefs about other people's different religious beliefs. It means that, to be tolerant, one must accept all religions as equally valid and true.
This is close to a religious concept called "pluralism" which states that all religions are true and valid within their own cultures." One problem is that if diverse beliefs are all true, then absolute does not exist. These conservatives generally find unacceptable. Also, taken to a logical extreme, this definition of tolerance would require people to accept the existence of Yahweh, Allah, the Wiccan Goddess, Thor, Re, Jupiter, Venus, Diana, Fergus, etc. as real Gods and Goddesses."
Please watch this video and really think and ponder it and decide if you will take action:
