Running joke among some exmos who live in Utah. When they are asked “what ward are you in?” (common question) they respond “well, until recently the psych ward” punning on the LDS use of ward for congregation and the fact you have be crazy to believe that stuff.
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Good one!!!
When people ask me if I’m LDS, I always say: “not so’s you’d notice”.
Not real sure what you could possibly be referencin' Reaganaut.
When somebody mentions "Mormon" I think of...
A Mormon getting prepared to rise up early the next a.m. to his temple goes to bed...
...in his magically protective underwear...
...praying to a resurrected man who got the god job...
...a god whose spirit is no more "eternal past" than they themselves are...
...a god who died having needed a "savior" to save him...
...and a god who authorizes assembly-line vicarious dunkings of the dead...
...but alas, few of these "dead" so named are beyond a given century due to the sheer lack of info about them...
As he drifts off to sleep, he tries in vain to recall memories of his "home town" in the planet near the star Kolob. But no matter how he concentrates, a void is there.
His devotion the next morning includes verses from the Book of Mormon proclaiming that darker skin is indicative of God's cursing; and fair white skin a sign of God’s Blessing. And -- that skin color can actually change in the pre-Michael Jackson era.
He then heads off to a temple that was off-limits to such darker-skinned people 36 years ago -- boundary-ized by the Mormon gods themselves!
In the temple, he dons ritualistic white clothing...and repeats impersonal ritualistic jargon.
Somehow, tho these temples are of such "import" now...
...yet once upon a time, they were of such "take it or leave it" status that Mormons...
...abandoned one in Kirtland, Ohio in the 1830s...
...and didn't complete the one in Nauvoo, IL -- until AFTER the decision was made to evacuate it in 1846 [source: Doctrine & Covenants Student Manual, p. 315]...
...and then didn't dedicate another temple until 1877 [source: ibid] -- a full 47 years AFTER the Mormon church was organized!
[And no Mormon temples existed outside Utah & Hawaii until 93 years after their jumpstart...No Mormon temple was East of Utah until 125 years after their jumpstart]