by cherokeecfg:
"(She had plenty of time to join the church if she had wanted to.)"
This statement is so telling of the smug and ignorant position that so many devout religious people take. Let me turn the statement around for you: You had plenty of time to _leave_ the church if you wanted to. Your statement oozes with a vomitous puss of ignorance. Your mother may well be of such a fragile heart that she can't tell you how she really feels, or she may be entirely fine with not being able to see you married (as you say she is). It makes your point of view no less disgraceful.
Let me not mince my words!
by sorria2000:
"We have different beliefs and ask for understanding and an open mind and heart. I, and many others, show this courtesy for different beliefs, customs, and cultures. Please show us the same respect and do not assume ulterior motives behind policies that you don't understand."
I, and many others who read these posts, understand this Mormon custom _perfectly well_. It is a practice which has been crafted precisely to be as divisive and disruptive as possible. Those who dismiss their parents from such a special ceremony shall have to justify their doing so, lest they wish to feel the deserved and extreme cognitive dissonance that would flood their senses, should they ever come to the conclusion that what they did just might have been totally indefensible (which is true). This is how devout believers are made of converts. The weight of sadness it puts on _the vast majority_ of family who can not see the ceremony is intended to get those individuals to consider converting.
This "custom" of which we speak is intentionally divisive. It is disgusting, and deserves no respect whatsoever.
I have had many years of experience, of anguish and anger, generated by the beliefs of this terrible institution (The Church of LDS), that going over it here would take far more time than you or I are willing to invest here. This topic is one of many unnecessary hurdles I, and my wife, unfortunately have had to deal with in our lives.
Before any Mormon's decide to complement themselves and take my words to be anti-Mormon - please, let me state that I am anti-religion. Yes - I have a grudge against _all_ religions. They all contain some mechanism or another for dividing people and generating misery. In this regard, Mormonism is not special.
For all the synthetic bliss born from the virtues of their faith that the religious focus upon, maniacally, obsessively, to justify what they believe, there are mountains and mountains of sadness sewn into the human psyche.
I dearly hope humanity can be rid of the infection we know as religion, one day, soon.
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