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Infants on Thrones

Ep 28 – Minisode – WWJD (Ordain Women)

Infants on Thrones

Glenn Ostlund

Personal Journals, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2013

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Matt reflects an experience from his mission and how that has colored his feelings towards the LDS church and the Ordain Women movement.

Transcript

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This is Infants on Thrones.

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Many Sout.

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Many Sout.

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Hey everybody, this is Matt from Infants on Thrones.

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And recently, the other infants put out some

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episodes on who wrote the Book of Mormon. They were pretty great even though I

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wasn't on them. The reason I wasn't on them was because I simply had no interest in the topic.

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My fellow quorum members and the guests, John Hamer, and Craig Crittle were interesting, thoughtful, and entertaining.

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I was actually pretty surprised at my disinterest in the topic.

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It made me realize that I might actually be getting to a point

0:37.0

where I'm beyond caring about Mormonism.

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Or at least about who wrote the Book of Mormon.

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To me, it's kind of like talking about who would win in a fight between Spider-Man or Batman.

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I started to wonder that if I don't care about something as fundamental as who wrote the book of Mormon,

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then maybe I'm not just ex-Morman or former Mormon, but maybe I'm actually beyond Mormonism.

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And then the October 2013 General Conference happened.

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Yes, General Conference, a biannual conference where the leaders of the Mormon Church gather

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and broadcast what they have to say via radio, cable, and internet.

1:21.5

Talks that are received as revelation to active warmance throughout the world, but what ends up being

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about 10 hours of empty platitudes and stories or ideas that have been told time and

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time again.

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But this conference was going to be different, because after all, I'm now beyond Mormonism.

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