One silly tradition is as good as another. May as well celebrate them all by taking the day off.
According to Mormonism and it seems, some other religious nuts with too much time on their hands, April 6th-ish is the actual birthday of Jesus Christ.
Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. There isn't a meter sensitive enough to measure how little I care. In my opinion, this is just another quirk Mormons have adopted to set themselves apart as the snootiest-of-all-know-it-alls in a sea of other pretty-damn-snooty-know-it-alls.
What's more important (and not at all in dispute) is that today is Billy Dee Williams' 70th birthday. So go out rent Return of The Jedi and get yourself a nice, tall cold Colt 45 to celebrate.
Unless you're a Jehovah's Witness, of course. In which case, you and 143,999 of your closest friends can Kingdom haul your asses out to protest at blood bank or whatever it is you usually spend your Fridays doing. We wouldn't want you to lose your faith for clapping along or anything.
Filed under - Beer | MormonismIsn't April 6 also the touted day of creation. I know they dedicated the SL Temple that day too.
Speaking of Good Friday, last Sunday (Palm Sunday) ksl.com ran a story with this headline: "Some Christians Celebrate Palm Sunday." Yes only the freaking MAJORITY celebrated it save various sects like Quakers, JWs, Mennonites, oh yeah and that quaint American religion, the LDS. Theres your snootiness, Pete.
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dude, i've been reading all around your site. it makes me think about how the only thing worse than having growing up in utah with all these mormons hating on me was growing up around people who are incapable of doing anything but hating on mormons. you're festering. you seem to think beer is the opposite of mormons. there's an earth's worth of better things to do with your life. i don't blame you, i know how insane it is to live in utah, but i'm just suggesting you give up a little of the hate an get into something else. move to nebraska. or texas. you think the southern babtists would annoy you in the same way: they don't. it turns out they're just intersting, even mormons become interesting rather than demonic presences in your subconsious. flee! flee! flee!
As it turns out this site is deliberately themed. Don't confuse my single, focused post a day as a picture of my entire life.
Besides, I checked your history... you've read 5 posts in one category, Mormonism. Hardly a complete cross-section even of the content of this site.
Thanks for being short-sighted though.
Ever notice that these drive-by comments are always posted anonymously?
I should add... I don't hate on Mormons. Not at all. I live with and love several Mormons. But I was raised and lived Mormon for a long time. I have every right to write about my personal experience.
Mostly I think Mormonism is laughably funny.
It probably is just someone who thinks they are clever and can defend their religion (yes they probably are LDS) by claiming not to be LDS. "Faith" makes people do funny things.
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i admit to the shortsightedness yesterday, maybe, though i have checked out posts in several other areas of your site over the last couple weeks. i like your writing, i even like your writing on mormons. but i still think you're obsessed in a bad way and i'm telling you because it annoys me and because my whole life i've wondered whether people defining themselves against mormons know how defeating it is. i'm not an exmormon like you, but i've known a lot. they tend to talk a lot about: drinking (check), sex (check), mormons (check). it's like in utah you're mormon or you're antimormon. and i'm saying that's a pretty narrow spectrum. and you're doing what a lot of them do: you've given up the religion for whatever reason, because it's laughably funny if you want, but the truth is the religion is STILL obsessively at the center of your life. maybe what you do is not hating, maybe a better word is worshiping.
you're right it sucks i'm being anonymous. and now i'm going home and can't have internet access anymore: truly drive by...
As I said... I write about my personal experience. I deal with Mormonism A LOT. I have Mormons who are obsessed with Mormonism living in my own home. Therefore I write about it A LOT in way that is obsessive. If you've read this site then you know I literally live with the quirkiness that Mormonism brings to a marriage.
If you don't like that those things are a large part of my life then feel free to read someone else's site. Or better yet, do something more productive then telling me what to write and write something yourself.
OK I won't be facetious, anonymous. Bascially what you are saying is that "ex" mormons act in a certain way. Yes, they do. It is a part of being human to act like each other and to react to a system that you put full faith in by focusing on all the things you suggest. I too am not a Mormon, given that my father is the one who had the balls to stand up to his pioneer family (yep I am a progeny of one of the orignal elite who trucked it across the very dangerous middle of America to find Nirvana in Utah) and tell them it was all rot. He was a hell of a lot tougher than me, that's for sure and put up with a lot of crap.
I know, therefore, a lot about Mormons and those who have left that church from some sort of weird second generation stand point. I too love my still "active" relatives (what a funny word to choose for people who are true believing members of your church) and I don't let that get between me and them. Unfortunately, they let it get between me and them.
I'm not even bothered by the church, as it were. I rarely think about it these days, although I know I sure did when I was growing up and feeling isolated and like some freak heathen or whatever. I don't write about Mormon shit because, ultimately, it really doesn't matter to me. It does, matter, however, to Pete and many folks who have decided that the LDS religion is a bunch of bunk brought to you, as Richard Dawkins (famous British Scientist) by an "enterprisingly mendacious inventor" (see Dawkins' the God Delusion page 201).
I suppose it is about recovery. When you've been denying something for so long (sex, alcohol--you name the laundry list) of course you are going to write about it. You are also going to be writing about the people who still try to guilt-trip you into following their messed-up view of reality.
In other words, go Pete, go!
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I think the focus on alcohol, sex and comments on the former faith come directly from the attitudes about sex and alcohol instilled by the faith. Those subjects are exactly in the middle of what the church makes taboo by its teachings...so when you drop the veil of blindness and look at the world for what it is, those things are right on your doorstep. Only makes sense they are readily considered by the newly de-culted.
I felt a sense of...."hey there's a lot of fun to be had in moderating alcohol responsibly. And Lattes are delicious and stimulating...why has this knowledge been kept from me?"
Hey Pete,
Sorry about that... I'm sure this post by "anon" was directed towards my blog, not yours. ;)
"i'm not an exmormon like you, but i've known a lot. they tend to talk a lot about: drinking (check), sex (check), mormons (check)."
Dammit. They left out, "Cursing (check)" Hell, maybe it was directed towards you... nevermind.
Keep up the good work.
~Caryn
As a practising (but not believing)temple-recommend holding Mormon it is a relief to read that others are thinking the same things as me. I have realised for some time now that it is all a load of c**p, but I have a dear wife who I love and who is the relief society president and believes. I suspect that deep down she knows how I really feel but tries to avoid a discussion.
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I live in the land of the Catholics, where April 6th isn't even known as a possible birthday. Most people here are celebrating Good Friday. For me, that means another bogus holiday when I have to work and others get the day off. I think I'm going to be joining several religions so I can enjoy all the holidays. Muslims have a whole month for Ramadan. (I'll just sneak food like fasting mormons do.)