likely reversing course, will be baptized into LDS.

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after discussing with a few confidants I decided that my greatest opportunity to make a positive contribution to the Latter-Day Saint movement would be to work within the LDS church.  here are screenshots of conversations I had with online missionaries.




I guess they are under orders not to discuss Romney/politics.

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are you ever going to get around to comparing Mormon doctrine with the bible?

hopefully by June, yes.  however my attraction to Mormonism is best defined as personal/sociological rather than theological.

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already posted, but this part of my testament answers to the "personal/theological" most directly.

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it's about living a narrative dude.  we all live narratives, and I contend that we are incapable of gauging their objective 'truth'; we have our frames, through which we interpret events, and walk through.  now.  organized religion, LDS of course included, is a 'pre-packaged' frame: it is a relatively definite sense of coordinates, reference points.  certainly more definitive that I would be able to construct on my own.  this is the 'crutch' that self-affirming atheists speak of; the need or desire to 'purchase' what's already been constructed, and plug it into one's own life.

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you'd have to refer me to the context in which I said that in order for me to comment.

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I can understand the latter part, but how is this detrimental to the Forum?