Gluten-Free Mormonism

[Anonymous]

Check out the following link and feel free to excerpt and discuss any part of it that hits you:

http://mormonchildbride.blogspot.com/2011/08/gluten-free-mormonism.html

The post is really, really good – and I love the way she describes the concept of what it really means to be a Cafeteria Mormon, especially the idea that we don’t have to eat the moldy stuff (like polygamy) when we have fresh stuff available.

[Anonymous]

I found she started well, but the meaning got lost in the analogy — trying to decipher how the analogy applied to her ideas got in the way of understanding, in my view. For example, perhaps someone can translate what she meant by this:

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3. The Cafeteria does not serve “spicy” food very often. “Spicy” food must be cleared by a priesthood holder, does not pray in General Conference. It is naturally more “spiritual” than regular food, and therefore doesn’t need to be served very often, even in the Young Women manual.

Also, I wasn’t sure if she was a proponent of cateteria Mormonism, or if she was against it, or if she was providing a new perspective on it. I think she was walking the line between advocating it and decrying it — with statements like “everyone is a cafeteria Mormon”, and that some people are allergic to certain kinds of foods (doctrines?).

So, not the clearest representation of what she was trying to mean, in my view.

[Anonymous]

Nobody I know would consider eating moldy stuff. But if I were to visit a place where such stuff was offered, I would seriously consider calling the health inspector to have the place shut down. But maybe I’m carrying the analogy too far.

[Anonymous]

SilentDawning wrote:

3. The Cafeteria does not serve “spicy” food very often. “Spicy” food must be cleared by a priesthood holder, does not pray in General Conference. It is naturally more “spiritual” than regular food, and therefore doesn’t need to be served very often, even in the Young Women manual.

I know what you mean SD, I was completely baffled by the reference until one of the subsequent comments provided what I believe to be the key.

ChristyLove wrote:

If “spicy” = “vagina,” these comments are hilarious.

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