TheGreatJouneyIsA
I don't know if I will ever stop cringing at my past self for thinking this was a cool story lol
I was born and raised in the Church (like most of us), and I never once heard someone say they were part of the "latter-day saint movement."
Though I actually kind of like it. It's a more open perspective that acknowledges the existence of other churches that also claim to be the legitimate continuation of the church Joseph Smith started.
Come to think of it, a bunch of churches claiming to be the only legit continuation sounds a lot like the great apostasy. I'm sure it doesn't count this time because... reasons.
I've run into not being able to post a few times (not consistently in the same place though), and I just assumed the instance I'm on was struggling to keep up with all the new users. 3 days of that happening in the same spot is pretty weird.
Yep! It seems whatever I ran into isn't affecting anything new, so I don't think we'll need to worry about it.
Aw dang, that's unfortunate.
Cool! I'm not sure why I can't see the comments on the other 2 posts, but hopefully that won't be an issue going forward.
This one seems to be more active: https://lemmy.world/c/exmormon. No harm in having both of course, but I figure it would be nice to know the other one exists.
As for why I'm here, I'm just yet another Reddit refugee escaping the tyranny of the pigboi. :)
A dumb meme I made for r/exmormon a week ago. Lemmy and the Fediverse are pretty cool!
Five years later:
"To remove Mormon’s name from the Lord’s Church is a major victory for Satan. When we discard Mormon's name, we are subtly disregarding all that the ancient prophets did for us—even the Book of Mormon."
When I was a missionary, it was fairly unsettling to realize just how much information about people and their daily routines was contained in the area book app. I shudder to think about the contributions I dutifully made to that database while I served.
On the other hand, I am pretty curious to see what they wrote about me now that I'm an ex member who's had a couple interactions with missionaries.