Reasonable Deconstruction with Unoriginal Jim

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A deconstructing of my Mormon background and politics and rebuilding my world view. This is a collection of material I posted on TikTok (@unoriginal_jim) over the last year as well as new commentaries and clips from my appearances on the Mormonish podcast

  1. 2d ago

    Recognizing special pleading in our religion and politics

    Recognizing special pleading and identity protection in our religious and political ideas.

  2. 2d ago

    Bad Religion and the Mormon Missionary

    How a 30 minutes chat with a member of bad religion helped me understand that questions and doubt were not problematic. But signs of growth.

  3. 2d ago

    The political right used a meme about West Virginia and slavery to manipulate people into questioning the cause of the Civil War

    In a meme that popped up on my social media page a right wing activist questioned the creation of West Virginia during the Civil War and used a historically illiterate argument to feed false narratives that the Civil War really wasn’t about slavery at all.

  4. Oct 25

    All the (Noah’s Ark) hype that your money can buy

    It’s all the hype that your money can buy All the hype and press releases from Noah’s arc scans uses language of certainty to beg for donations. They are conning people.

  5. Oct 25

    Both tithing and gambling guarantee that the institution gets its money. But tithing only returns you speculative, blessings, vague notions, and subjective outcomes.

    despite the conference speech against gambling. The church fully endorses another more lucrative asymmetric financial dynamic. One in which the church always gets its money and the member always gets speculative vague promises in return.

  6. Oct 25

    Do former members need to be healed. No. We’re good.

    I came across a video from Tanner Yost directed at people who have left the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It's a very emotional appeal, filmed in front of an LDS temple with somber music and a message that those who have left have rejected the "most true church" and need to return and be "healed." I want to respond to that message, but also to the way the message is constructed, because there's an important difference between making an argument for why someone should believe something and emotionally framing disagreement as evidence that something is wrong with the person who disagrees.

  7. Oct 25

    “ do what is right that the consequence follow” doesn’t apply to LDS abuse cases.

    The churches system will only facilitate abuse. Fighting to remove mandatory reporting shows a desire to protect the institution and not victims. You cannot trust the LDS Church to do What's best for your kids if they know abuse is happening.

  8. Oct 25

    Never mind the bollocks, read the Journal of Discourses

    A LDS commentator calling himself Gogo says that members should not read the journal of discourses because they could become confused with previous church teachings and doctrine. I think everyone should read them no matter where they are. Better to know the history of your religion than to be ignorant and told what you can or cannot read.

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A deconstructing of my Mormon background and politics and rebuilding my world view. This is a collection of material I posted on TikTok (@unoriginal_jim) over the last year as well as new commentaries and clips from my appearances on the Mormonish podcast

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