JoeDean :
The Mormon Church created a “Plan of Salvation,” a blueprint of laws, ordinances, worthiness interviews, temple rituals, covenants, priesthood authority, and endless striving to reach the highest room in heaven. But the question nobody stops to ask is this?Is it ethical? Because Jesus Christ never taught people to build ladders to God through religious systems. He said the truth shall set you free. He said the kingdom of God is within you. He said, “It is finished.”
Yet Joseph Smith rewrote the path entirely and placed the church between the individual and God.
Now salvation becomes conditional..
worthy enough,obedient enough,pure enough,approved enough,
temple-worthy enough.
You are constantly measured, monitored, interviewed, corrected, and kept spiritually dependent upon the institution itself.
That is not freedom.
That is religious slavery.
And the deepest danger is not even the rules themselves. The deepest danger is what happens psychologically to the human being underneath them.
People stop listening to themselves.
They stop telling the truth.
They abandon their conscience, their body, their intuition, their authenticity, and even their suffering in order to preserve belonging inside the system. The church teaches people to distrust themselves while trusting the institution above their own direct relationship with God.
Jesus never taught that.
Jesus confronted religious systems constantly because they turned living truth into hierarchy, performance, image, fear, and spiritual control. He spoke hardest against the religious elite who outwardly appeared holy while inwardly avoiding truth.
And that is exactly what these systems produce.
people performing righteousness while living in fear of exposure, fear of punishment, fear of rejection, fear of losing family, fear of losing heaven itself.
The church calls it the “Plan of Salvation,” but salvation is not found in climbing institutional ladders. Salvation begins when a human being finally becomes honest.
Honest about their suffering.
Honest about their fear.
Honest about their sexuality.
Honest about their grief.
Honest about their rage.
Honest about their desires.
Honest about the ma
2026-07-30 22:28:22