Mormon Temple Rituals part 2
Albert Einstein said, “Teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the archaic doctrine of a personal God, to give up the source of fear which has placed vast power in the hands of the clergy and priests . Such a doctrine is not only unworthy, but fatal, and has done incalculable harm to human spiritual progress.” Participating in the Mormon temple rituals definitely did harm to my personal spiritual progress. For decades I believed I was a wretched sinner, whom God could not love without intervention on my behalf. This was a terrible lie that I was clutching tightly in my hands until it was promptly released from my grasp through the discovery of the true history of the church. Once their deception was fully realized in my heart, letting go of those terrible beliefs of my unworthiness, my worthlessness, my shamefulness, and my un-deservingness of living life on my own terms was effortless and immediate as if those once treasured truths had turned into red hot coals