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1745: Mormon Happiness w/ John Larsen

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The Core Cognition Chain That Leads to Suicide

Mormonism teaches that happiness is for the afterlife. John Larson: The math is really simple. God made me gay, but I've tried everything that my bishop and my church leaders have told me to pray the gay away. It won't go away. Wickedness never was happiness. I can't know true love and joy in this life. And so if the afterlife is...I may as well accelerate that and get there now," he says. "So much carnage has come about let alone neglect of our world by teaching the joy comes later"

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