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So, I'm going to try and ask this question one more time or maybe in a different way, I don't know.

But I'm been avoid. No, I mean, I can't try to avoid it. No, no, I know.

And I think there's going to be people who really resonate with what you're saying.

So, I don't mean any of this with disrespect or even to directly challenge you.

But the Mormonism that I feel like I, the frequency that I pick up, the, you know, the reality that is how people

articulate and, and encourage kind of a worldview is, you know, God, God exists as an anthropomorphic being with arms and legs.

Jesus is the only begotten son who came to the earth and died and was resurrected for our sins.

Joseph Smith saw God in Jesus, got the priesthood, started the one and only church.

And all the other churches, you know, all the other ordinances are illegitimate, blah, blah, blah.

You know, Thomas S. Monson speaks with God today.

It's not just this sort of loose, there's some energy, there's some goodness, there's some spirituality.

I'm part of a narrative, all the other narratives are also legitimate.

It's, it's a very hard, linear, clear cut, true false, factual.

This is what happened. This is what you're to believe.

And the frequency that you're running at just doesn't feel like Mormonism to me.

It feels, but no, I don't mean it to condemn it or to make it illegitimate because it's real and I want to be respectful of it.

And, and I want people to feel like that's an option for them.

What I'm saying is it doesn't feel like the Mormonism that I've been raised to believe in.

It doesn't feel like anything that a bishop or a state president or any general authority would endorse.

They would call it inadequate or weak or feeble or new agey.

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