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.
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."
"We don't do infant baptisms because we believe that people should have the agency to make such an eternally-important decision on their own.
"... Anyway, want to come to little Timmy's baptism? He just turned 8 years old and has decided to promise that he will commit the entire rest of his life to the Church! I'm so glad he's finally old enough to make that choice on his own!"