tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139169.post110024255472270450..comments2023-11-02T07:25:45.884-05:00Comments on Mormanity - a blog for those interested in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Except ye become as a little child...Jeff Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08776493593387402607noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139169.post-66844402368016530832008-01-27T01:46:00.000-06:002008-01-27T01:46:00.000-06:00As a lifelong "mormon", I finally took the advice ...As a lifelong "mormon", I finally took the advice to "become as a little child...", giving up all my long-held beliefs and essentially asking God to show me what Truth was...what was eternal truth, not the dogma of mortal men, but the "Truths of God." Lo and behold, I was taken on a journey of unprecedented growth, learning that I didn't know anything, and finding that if I wanted to know Truth I would have to let go of my security blanket which I clung to so tenaciously--Mormonism. What wonderful, exhilarating, fascinating possibilities unfolded as I slowly but surely let go of those beliefs that had bound me and kept me from growing spiritually and emotionally! I have discovered a world I never knew existed, and I would not go back to the confining dogma of Mormonism for all the money in the world! This isn't what you wanted to hear, but it is the truth--at least for me. I once thought that there was no good in Mormonism, but now I see that is serves a purpose for those that need it. I look at it as "spiritual preschool". I don't fight or resist it, but accept it as necessary for those that need a beginning course into spirituality...and also for those who use it as a drug to numb them to reality, using it as a "boat" to get across the lake of "life", but refusing to get out on the other side and continue on their journey through the desert. They just want to stay in the "boat". (Thanks to Alan Watts for the analogy of religion as a boat.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com