What Mormonism teaches me about religion

[RainDog]

31. My OP was about religion in general

And I have stated reasons for difficulties I have with many practitioners... AND my inability to understand why someone would prop up institutions that are not representative of liberal values.

I have consistently noted that those who exercise power in institutions are the real issue - why would anyone remain subservient to a belief system that claims it is a second-class citizen.

As I have noted these things, time after time, you have tried to argue this as personal belief, as some sort of fundie pov, a personal attack, but only after you offered up counterpoint points - that I also questioned, and also as an issue of extremism by placing right wing religious believers and religious observers in some sort of continuum that only exists because it is perpetuated, first and foremost, by tradition among all who lay claim to some "mainstream" religious belief.

And here again you attempt to discredit legitimate questions which you don't answer. It looks like denial, from where I sit. Obviously others would have different opinions. It's not about you, personally. It's about the way the arguments are framed and the attacks you attempt when you don't like the questions.

Or maybe that's not it at all.

However, no one compelled you to participate in this thread and, just because you chose to do so - that doesn't make you immune from the questions this issue poses for me in terms of how we all compromise ethical actions and think we're justified - and, in some cases, people do this by their association with groups that are outright misogynistic and homophobic.

That's the reality for anyone who has no emotional attachment to these institutions or beliefs - and that is why I said what I did about Mormonism.