She considers the church’s introduction of new garments “forward-thinking.”
Lmao as a long-time exMormon it is VERY gratifying to get this news through a random online channel as opposed to my weird af TBM (True Believing Mormon) family yapping on and on about how “inspired” and “blessed” it is to have upgraded underwear
Congrats to being an EX. Probably hard as shit leaving those damn all-consuming cults :(
Weird, I get my comfort from never having been Mormon.
I can’t imagine something more “cult-y” than having to wear church-approved underwear.
I still hold onto my ancestors beliefs that Mormons are stupid and Missouri shouldve finished their fucking job. Because after over a hundred and fifty fucken years they are still overly controlling shitstains filled with utter entitlement while believing in shit so stupid and divergent from mainline Christianity the Gnostics are giving them side eye.
Ugh. Can we finally get rid of those fucking cults? It’s 2025 goddammit. My head hurts reading shit like that.
I see something beautiful and courageous and I have hope for humanity. Then I read this.
I think we can still see it as positive: an oppressive religion is allowing a minor concession on tradition. That doesn’t happen every day.
This is a puff piece on Mormonism. Mormonism is a cult, not a religion, regardless of what Mormons (or tax officials that have been lobbied by Mormons to declare Mormonism a religion) say.
Every religion is a cult. You just seem to think some are somehow more legitimate than others. Every single religion is a device for control of a population. All of them, without exception.
Uh, yeah, I know all religions are cults. But some cults are worse than others.
It’s also why the garments were first introduced in other parts of the world where it was a more practical necessity, including hotter climates and where women typically wear dresses. Sleeveless tops, skirt bottoms and one-piece shifts were already available in Africa and the Philippines, according to the church’s online store.
He said a friend who served a mission in Africa got the sleeveless garments there last year and encouraged Walker to buy them as soon as they hit the shelves stateside.
So different parts of the world have options to wear different mormon underwear that other parts of the world can’t?
“I feel like sometimes people act like it’s like a secret or something that we need to hide,” Walker said. “But to me, it’s just something that reminds me of promises I made with God, and so I don’t think it’s anything that I should keep secret.”
This is very confusing. If there are other styles that are mormon approved that he doesn’t have because of his geography, does that mean those other people are not reminded of god because they aren’t wearing the same undergarmets he is? If no, then there doesn’t actually seem to be a correlation between what undergarments are worn and what promise was made to god, right? If church leaders can introduce new styles of undergarments, then where is god in the garments at all? If yesterday an undergarment wasn’t church approved (and wouldn’t remind a person of promises to god) the why, today, with the new undergarment approved would it suddenly take on the property of reminding of god?
Turns out that much of what the church says is “doctrine” is actually just authoritarianism.
Magic underpants wearing adults… We can stop there…
If it’s just symbolic, why can’t they just wear any other similar undergarment that isn’t shitty?
Religious garments are pretty common; in Judaism you have the tallit katan, which has fairly vague rules for construction and wear.
That doesn’t sound as profitable.
Considering they’re selling them for like $5 I don’t think they’re really profiting here.
Blech, mormons.
