The Emergent Mormon Perspective

An Unorthodox Nondenominational Approach to Mormonism through the "Lens" of Marcus Borg, John Spong, and Nietzsche's Affirmation of Bodily Life: An Option for Navigating a Faith Crisis and Soaring above the Abyss of Nihilism & Appreciating the Good in One's Mormon Heritage (on the Inside or Outside of the LDS System)

Thursday, January 1, 2026

Why I'm "Mormon" (& Not Protestant, Catholic, Buddhist or Atheist)

 

  • Bullet Point List of Why I'm a "Worldview-Mormon": Or Why I'm Not a Catholic, Protestant, or Secular-Atheist  & Want the LDS Church to Thrive (Even If/When I'm not a Chapel-Mormon)

  • Why I'm a "Heritage Mormon” (Not Protestant, Catholic, Greek or Russian Orthodox, or Buddhist): The Case for Mormonism as an Ethnolinguistic Ancestral Religion like Ethnic Religions such as Jewish Judaism or Japanese Shintoism, etc.

  • My Journey: Reconstructing a New Mormon Worldview

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  • The Americanized Indo-European LDS Gospel & The Case for a Mormon Peoplehood as a Quasi-Ethnic Identity (Blog Series)
      Original- Mormonism as an Americanized Gospel of Mostly Northern European Converts who were often declared "Ephraimites" in the...
  • From Gene Swapping Out Gentile DNA and Making Celibate Male-Brides to Restoring God's Body and Christian Men as Kingly Male Gods with Wives & The Restoration of an Indo-European "Mormon" Tribal Identity: Joseph Smith's Response to the Emasculating Unmasculine Versions of Christianity of His Day
    After reading the book Joseph Smith's Response to Skepticism , what is clear to me is that Joseph Smith had two goals or agendas. The fi...
  • Sex, Gods, & Power: Restoring God the Father’s Body & The Restitution of Hebrew Physicalism Toward a Body Affirming Christianity (A Blog Series)
      A Series of Posts on Joseph Smith's Plan of Happiness through the Affirmation of the Body & t he Path of Joy: Through Liberating t...

START HERE: Begin with the Introduction below. Followed by My Other Websites and Blog Series

  • INTRODUCTION: Sart Here
  • The Emergent Mormon Lens: On Midrash, Scripturalization, Bricolage & the Pro-Body Paradigm
  • Joseph Smith through Nietzsche's Eyes
  • "Norse-Mormomism": A Pro-European Americanized Gospel (Blog Series)
  • Why I'm "Mormon" (& Not Protestant, Catholic, Buddhist or Atheist)
  • Joy & Laughter in Mormonism
  • DNA Mormon (or Heritage-Mormon)
  • "Independent Mormon" (On being a Non-Denominational, Free-range Restorationist) Blog Series
  • Scripture Focused: On What is Doctrine, Truth, & Authoritatively Binding versus a Yoke/Burden?
  • A Defense of the "Brethren" (in the "Nelsonite" Sect)
  • "Supercouples": Appreciating Your Polygamist Pioneer Ancestors through the Perspective of the Book "Selective Breeding" by Aramariu
  • The Case Against ExMormon Nihilism
  • Sex, Gods, & Power: A "Body Affirming" LDS-Christianity
  • Mormonism on Power & Equality: Money, Power and Ambition in Zion
  • The LDS Priesthood
  • Original LDS Godhead
  • Theosis: Grace & Deification in the Restoration
  • "Worthy Already" by Grace: True Meaning of Sin & Repentance
  • My Other Site: Rethinking Mormonism
  • My Practical Christianity website

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