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Let me make it categorically clear that there is absolutely nothing like a “Gospel Club.” What is rubbish is rubbish. What is nonsense is nonsense. I see no meaningful difference between this and a regular club, except that there is little or no nudity, and gospel songs are remixed...

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Your faith was forged in people who would rather be exterminated than assimilated. A soft version of it, eager to be liked and desperate to fit in, is not the thing they died to hand you. So stop striving to be liked. Stop angling to be loved by a world that drove your fathers into the snow. That world would think no better of the gospel today than it did in 1838. Stop trying to file down every peculiar and glorious edge of the Restoration until the world finally finds you acceptable. It never will. And the wanting of its approval is the slow death of everything your people bled to preserve. I am thinking of the proclamation on the family, and of how many have quietly gone looking for a way around it. Some say it aloud now. Some march under the world's Pride banners and tell themselves it is only love. They have done the quiet arithmetic and concluded that if they give the world this one doctrine, the world will finally stop hating them, finally let them belong, finally call them good. It does not work that way. It has never once worked that way. Understand what the world actually hates, because it is not a single teaching about marriage that it cannot abide. It is the claim. It is the unbearable, scandalous claim that the keys of the priesthood were restored to the earth, that there is a prophet who speaks for God, that this and no other is the authorized house of the Lord. That is the offense. That is what it cannot forgive. You could surrender every doctrine the world finds distasteful, one after another, and you would not buy a single hour of peace, because the thing it objects to is not your position on this or that. It is that you claim to hold the authority of heaven, and it intends to see that claim humbled. The doctrine is only the doorway it is pushing on. The house is what it wants. Embrace the truth. Embrace the battle that has always come with it, because there has always been a battle, and there is one now. It is the oldest war there is, good against evil, light against the dark, and you were born onto its field whether you wished to be or not. You did not inherit a museum. You inherited a war, and a banner, and a people who never once surrendered it. You are a Mormon. The blood of the persecuted is in you, and the truth they died for is in your hands. You are not tourists. You are not spectators. You are the heirs of warriors, and the line they held is now yours to hold. So plant your feet on the ground they bled for. Lift the banner they would not drop.

Kirk Rollins

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Interesting argument. If we were to steel man this and represent it as a syllogism I think it would look like this: 1. God is perfect 2. A perfect being would only create perfect things 3. The world is imperfect 4. Therefore, a perfect God could not have created this world ...And then we'd further conclude a perfect God doesn't exist. The problem is with premise two, for a number of reasons. Firstly, what does it mean to be perfect? To be perfect is to lack for nothing, to be without flaws, to be fully actualized. But only God is like that, so the only way for God to make something perfect would be to make another God exactly like Himself. But there's a problem with this because the second God couldn't be exactly the same since he had to be created, rather than simply existing by his very nature. So logically speaking God can't create something perfect. This means that if* God creates, God can only create things that are imperfect. So now that we've established that God can't make something perfect, I guess the question is... why would God create? Here's a thought. Ontologically speaking God is the greatest conceivable being... would the greatest conceivable being create things? Or not create things? It seems obvious that creating is greater than not creating. An artist that creates no art wouldn't be much of an artist. If this is correct, it means God will create, and from my first argument God will create something imperfect... something flawed. Something lacking. Another thing worth pointing out is that as humans we knowingly create imperfect beings. We know when a baby is born, it's not perfect... yet we choose to do it anyway. Why? Is our desire to bring new life into the world something evil or wicked? I don't think so. I think it comes from our love for each other and our understanding that giving life is a blessing, even if that child screws up, even if they suffer, their life is a blessing. If God is good, wouldn't He want to bless something with the gift of life, the same way we do? I don't see why not. From this I think it follows that if God exists we'd expect to be in some sort of imperfect or flawed reality, and that's exactly what we find ourselves in. But how does atheism explain the existence of a flawed world? To say that something is flawed is to say it's not how it should be. But how can the world be flawed if atheism is true? On atheism the world just... is. It's not meant to be any sort of way. To be consistent the atheist would have to say reality isn't flawed, which is obviously absurd. This means that not only can Christianity explain the world we find ourselves in, it predicts it logically. Atheism on the other hand would have to predict a totally neutral world with no flaws, no issues, no evil... and no one in their right mind would say that's the world we find ourselves in. So this argument not only fails, it gives us more great reasons to reject atheism.

Darwin to Jesus

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Moksha in Advaita Vedanta: Not a Destination, but a Recognition In Advaita Vedanta, Moksha is not described as a place to reach, a world to escape to, or a future reward after death. Moksha is knowledge — the clear seeing of what has always been true. It is the end of ignorance, not the acquisition of something new. According to Advaita, the fundamental mistake of human life is adhyāsa — the superimposition of the non-Self upon the Self. We take ourselves to be the body, the mind, the roles, the doer, the sufferer. From this misunderstanding arises fear, desire, attachment, and the sense of bondage. Moksha is the dissolution of this misunderstanding. Moksha Is Not “Going Somewhere” Advaita Vedanta firmly rejects the idea that liberation is a journey to another realm. The Self (Ātman) is already free, eternal, and complete. If liberation were something to be attained, it would be impermanent. But the Upanishads declare: “You are That” (Tat Tvam Asi) This means that Brahman, the absolute reality, is not separate from you. Therefore, Moksha cannot be an event in time or a change in location. It is the recognition that bondage itself was never real. Bondage Was Never Real The statement “the bondage that seemed real never actually existed” is central to Advaita. The world of suffering is compared to mistaking a rope for a snake in dim light. The fear feels real, the reaction is real, but the snake was never there. Similarly, ignorance (avidyā) creates the illusion of limitation. When the right knowledge (jñāna) arises, nothing physically changes. The body remains, the world continues, actions happen — but the false identification collapses. The individual no longer takes the body or mind to be the Self. The Body Is Not Abandoned, the World Is Not Escaped Advaita does not teach rejection of the world through physical renunciation alone. Liberation does not require the body to be destroyed or society to be abandoned. What falls away is the belief that “I am this body” or “I am bound by this world.” The liberated one (jīvanmukta) lives fully in the world while knowing it as mithyā — not unreal, but dependent, temporary, and not absolute. The world continues to appear, but it no longer binds. Moksha as the End of Forgetfulness Moksha is often described as smṛti — remembrance. It is remembering one’s true nature as pure awareness (chaitanya), untouched by birth and death. Nothing new is gained; rather, something false is lost. This is why Advaita says: You do not become free You discover that you were never bound Fear ends because there is no second thing. Desire ends because completeness is recognized. Suffering ends because the sufferer is seen as an idea, not a fact. Knowledge Alone Liberates In Advaita Vedanta, liberation is not produced by rituals, actions, or even meditation alone. These may purify the mind, but Moksha arises only through knowledge of the Self. This knowledge is not intellectual belief but direct insight into one’s own being. When ignorance ends, Moksha is immediate. There is no waiting, no afterlife requirement, no qualification of time. Conclusion Moksha, in Advaita Vedanta, is not escape — it is clarity. Not renunciation of the world — but renunciation of false identity. Not the destruction of life — but the destruction of ignorance. Nothing leaves. Nothing arrives. Only the truth is seen as it has always been. And in that seeing, freedom stands revealed.

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