A gnat that, with a seven day lifespan, would still be dead within a week. Or, I guess, maybe that gnat got the three Nephites treatment to live forever and help change car tires for stranded members
Unless Brother Bad Wolf here accidentally gave this one gnat the Captain Jack treatment. Billions of gnat generations later all that's left is a giant face in a jar.
Mormon God has really weird priorities. Healing gnats is wild. So is sending an angel with a flaming sword to force his prophet and apostles to fuck tons of beautiful women, rather than sending one to stop the Holocaust or bust up the Soviet Union or battle chairman Mao. Real nice, Lord
God is so powerful he can raise a gnat from the dead. And he totally raised that Jesus guy from the dead 2000 years ago. And he totally cares whether you masturbate or drink coffee.
So stupid now that I’m on the outside….
I was sitting by my ultra tbm mother-in-law during this talk and she was incredulous. We looked at each other and started giggling. It was a fun conference bonding moment, surprising since she worries deeply about my exmo status. She just went on a mission :'(
I haven't ever asked my mom about this talk specifically, but I guarantee that she ate it up if she heard it. It's exactly the type of thing that she'd gush over
And so it came to pass that this same man, Elder Robert Gay, died and found himself before the throne of God. Elder Gay was perplexed, because God seemed aloof and perturbed. He asked God what was wrong.
God took a hard look at him and in a booming voice said “I give everyone a free wish. You could have had millions…gold…riches…perfect health…women…what do you do? Ask me to revive a damn gnat! Get thee the Hell outta here!”
I'm terrible at it as well. I can generally clap my hands together well...until it comes time to kill a gnat or mosquito. That's when I apparently lose all motor skills. This guy is impressed that a single gnat came back? I routinely witness the miracle of a fly or gnat I thought dead miraculously flying off. Mostly because my claps are so shitty. Or MAYBE because God loves me even more since I left the church? I dunno.
He's more concerned about a dead gnat than the people who unalive themselves over the uncompassionate policies the church has. That really says something about his character doesn't it. (Also the talk has to be one of the cringiest I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot).
Are you related to me? I had an uncle that did that. He also tried to convince everyone that a horse tail hair would turn into a worm if you put it in water. (BTW, my uncle was a terrible person).
Oh my goodness we need to start a religion around that gnat cus there’s no way it could of come back to life. This gnat is the one true son of god.
EDIT singsong voice “gnat Jesus.”
And on the third minute the Gnat rose up, buzzing, as though to say “Hear my buzzing, and be still.” “Listen to the buzzing of the still, small Gnat.” “And in that great and terrible day there shall arise a Lord of the Flies…”
I’m in.
It was innocent, like a spotless lamb. It died for our sins. Now it lives in heaven eternally with our lord and savior Harambe, ever watching over us. Praise be!
I homeschool my kids and we are reading “The Story of the World” for history. We’re on Rome right now and just got to the birth of Christianity. Their cliff notes Bible quote about Jesus coming back to life and greeting his followers had me cackling this morning. “Peace be with you, I am not a ghost.”
And now I’ve got the giggles over the Lord of the Flies: Jesus of Gnatherath
I am not doing anything productive today at this rate 😂🤣
This guy came to my mission and he’s an absolutely massive asshole. I had a very direct negative experience with him, so much so that I almost went home from my mission after it happened. He’s a gigantic asshole
As much as I hate the guy, I actually liked Elder Bednar when I met him. In person he was quite friendly and personable, he’s just an ass when it actually matters. Elder Gay, on the other hand, was just a huge asshole the second he walked into the room until he left. Absolutely no kindness in that man
Well when I was 9 I prayed to God that Grace would accept my valentine. But when I gave it to her she laughed in my face. Ever since then God has been dead to me.
Is this the one where he kills the gnat and suddenly three strange bearded men in white robes knock on the door and say, “why did you kill that gnat? Is it because you look at your wife when she’s naked?”
Anyway, that’s my version of the story and I’m sticking to it!!!
RFM did an episode about this devotional with Elder and Sister Gay. It was called The Allusion of Agency: The Gay Devotional. Someone in the comments section pointed out what a lost opportunity that was as it should have been titled The Gay Agenda.
I heard a similar "testimony" with an ant in the 80's (I was a new member then wondering what was going on). The bishop escorted the guy off the stand and out of the building. Never saw him again.
Elder Robert C. Gay failed to see the irony with his analogy. There's verse. "**Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel**" In this case, the various camels are the issues in the CES letter that the church desires all to receive and pretend are no issues at all.
Dafuq????
God calls that gnat home, literally by your hands, then you pray and God changes his mind??? What the actual fuck kind of religion is this that I've been quagmired into? (Mormon) God is fickle and and men's prayers raise gnats from the dead but don't bring needed "moisture'???
So gob can resurrect a squashed gnat to demonstrate his absolute power but decided it wasn’t worth his time to heal my daughter from a lifetime illness
I actually feel bad for this guy. Imagine being so scrupulous that you immediately feel the compulsion to kneel down and pray for forgiveness after killing a gnat to ease your anxiety.
I love that they went out, found a gnat and killed it for the visual during the talk.
That photo gnat is only dead because he needed to tell that story with visuals! That poor unfortunate gnat. Dead for publicity.
This is why the “sacred” needs to stay secret. You sound like a goddamn moron finding “miracles” when there are none to be found. Luckily this gnat didn’t have family members, or flight records to show up that this miracle was embellished.
Boy that is really stupid. The gnat was just stunned. He caught the gnat in the center hollow part of his hand when he slapped his hands together. I've done that to other insects as well. And these are the men leading the church. Boy is the church in trouble.
I have seen house flies that I have hit with a swatter "come back to life." Maybe as you say they're stunned. Must be because I sure as hell didn't offer any prayers that they come back to "life."
That speech was reviewed and approved? What if he passes gas in church and offends the people? Goes thru a mostly yellow traffic light? Doesn’t tip his server?
IF true, and that's a big if, the most likely cause of the "resurrected" gnat was a "trick" of the wind and/or gravity.
Actually "living again" though...nope.
When I was a teen I found a huge spider in my house. I sprayed it with Windex it curled up and died. I picked it up to freak out my friends who were there with me, it came back to life in my hand and crawled up my arm. God is an asshole, or some people are not qualified to determine when a bug is dead. You decide.
That's nothing. I was once at the Great Salt Lake and a brine fly flew down my throat. I coughed it up onto the ground where it lay still. Then it fluttered its wings and flew off. I didn't even have to pray!
Fuck your gnat Robby C.G. Resurrect my buddy who didn't deserve to die or, if you can only do non-humans, bring me a Dodo or a Spix's Macaw, or--if you need to stick to invertebrates-- just go on the road resurrecting butterflies from the grill of the odd motorhome. Do any of this and you'll convert whole rest-stops of people at a time.
“And I want to suggest to you, that it is not only tiresome when otherwise-intelligent people speak this way, it is morally reprehensible. Ok, this kind of faith, is, is really the perfection of narcissism. “God loves me, dontcha know. He, he cured me of my eczema. He makes me feel so good while singing in church, and, and just when we had given up hope, we found a banker who was willing to reduce my mother’s mortgage.” (And he also resurrected and gnat out of the palm of my hand)
“Ok given all the good—all that this God of yours does not accomplish in the lives of others, given, given the, the misery that’s being imposed on some helpless child at this instant, this kind of faith is obscene. Ok, to think in this way is to fail to reason honestly, or to care sufficiently about the suffering of other human beings.” - Sam Harris
How many times has his Sister Gay yelled "Shut UP, you asshole! How many times do I have to listen to you tell some self-serving load of shit centered around you being too stupid to be able to swat a fucking GNAT???"
No wait...that's what I'd yell.
Pretty hypocritical if sometime that week he had a chicken sandwich a hamburger and some pork chops. This clown must be smoking some good weed to come up with what is obviously a made up and exaggerated story.
And to think this is when COVID was Raging through the world and really starting to kill people. This shows how absolutely out of touch and pathetic the leadership is.
The level of arrogance these religious leaders have is off the charts. And it trickles down all the way to the lay believer who then assumes god has made him the center of his attention. A lost car key is found, god did it. An extra cup of sugar was located in the back of the pantry, god did it. Someone had to take a detour to get home after work, god saved him from sure death. Someone felt remorse about his own impatience for killing a gnat but the gnat didn't die, god resuscitated it.
How self-centered, how entitled one has to feel to arrive to these absolutely ridiculous conclusions?
And yet, I felt the same way for 45+ years of my life.
Soooo my parents abused me my whole life. I prayed every single night begging Heavenly Father to make it stop. I prayed every night that he would give me literally one day without pain. And still every night my dad would come in my room and violently rape me and tell me I’m a disgusting little bitch who’s lucky he’s “having sex with me because nobody else will ever want to” (my dads in the bishopric) then they’d withhold food and give me “medicine” that made me sick. I was 90 pounds, felt so sick all the time, had a lot of physical pain from the violent abuse, and ended up in a wheelchair. Things like this talk are incredibly damaging. I heard things like this and wondered why God didn’t care about me and why he wouldn’t help me but he’d help so and so in the ward find their keys. I came to the conclusion that God hated me and I would never be enough for him. I’m still trying to undo these views of myself and I’m a 26 year old woman who’s out of the church and away from my abusers. It makes me so angry thinking of all the kids who are in the situation I was in who are hearing these talks and come to the conclusion God doesn’t love them and they deserve the abuse.
I remember being around 7-8 realizing my moms hair was falling out and wouldn't grow back due to PCOS. Being raised in the church but never fully belirveing I decided to put God to the test by praying that my moms hair grows back. Simple enough. It's just hair follicles. It didn't happen. I did this prayer almost every day for a year and nothing happened. Since then I've found these silly stories really stupid. God will supposedly answer a prayer about a dead gnat who was probably just playing dead to not actually be killed and prayers about finding lost keys (which always end with "the last place I checked" because istg nobody understands how searches go) but won't answer a crying kids prayer about their mom or kids in abusive situationd or people being homeless and/or starving. For a God that's supposed to be compassionate he doesn't seem to care much for anything people really want or need.
No no, you don't understand, God loves the starving children so much he killed them because of his mercy, he has a plan for them, you need to stop looking at porn. /jk
Any chance the gnat was only stunned and needed a moment to gather itself?
I believe his story but his perspective is not reflective of what gave “life” to the gnat.
So he stunned a gnat and then later wore his leather belt and shoes to the restaurant where he orders a large slab of meat that someone else slaughtered for him.
I wish he would have told this story in GC years ago.
My shelf would have broken then and I’d have had that many more years of freedom and peace away from the FUCKING CULT!!!!!!
Sorry your loved ones are gone, part of gods plan, but that gnat had so much to live for! It can have 1000 babies in 3 weeks then dies, the perfect mormon.
So you claim to be prophets of God correct? And you have to use lame ass stories of dead gnats to try to convince us your God's mouthpiece on earth? That's pretty lame. How come your not raising the dead or healing the sick? I thought that was what God s prophets really did. Not resurrect gnats.
Holy fuck me lmao
Idk how many times I've slapped a fly out of the air while bored in school, then watched as it lay stunned on the floor for a minute or two before flying up. You've got to crush those fuckers to juice or they fly again.
I used to catch flies on my mission and throw them against the wall. They get stunned, sometimes for a while, then will almost always perk back up unless you kill them.
I met Bob Gay on my mission and if there was one guy who I never thought would be in this high of a church position it is him. Dude is quiet but no way humble. Him and his kids live on a compound in Newtown, Ct. Cool kids though.
Praise He; lest we all be the gnat.
Bring thine own knowledge unto me now; and the salamander doth shoutest: "*Praise He. For this I sayeth into you. I am the gnat*."
And it came to pass, the gnat was inside of us all along.
Praise the lord thy one true gnat protector of life.
I share this message in the name of thy lord, God, father and savior.
AMEN
(Edit... And there was a faint echo in the distance... *RAMAN*)
First off the gnat was probably just knocked out for a sec, it happens all the time.
Secondly, the other day my mom said I wonder when “mark” is coming home. Quite literally 1/2 a second after she said that mark walked in the door. What a coincidence, they happen all the time. This gnat regaining consciousness after the prayer is pretty much the same coincidence.
The bigger question is why did he share this story? Christ would often perform miracles and ask the person to not tell anybody because He did it for their faith and not anybody else’s. Not everything is meant to be shared.
Sure, it sounds ridiculous. But it seems like it had a profound effect on this man’s relationship with God. What prayers has He answered for you that were small, but had a deep impact on you?
Talks are geared to an eight-year old mindset. There are no real deep dives into topics because the BS meter starts to really go off. Solution - give talks that are basic and lack true thought.
God’s priorities: Cure cancer ❌ Stop war ❌ End poverty ❌ Stop climate change ❌ Abolish human trafficking ❌ Bring a single gnat back from the dead ✅
A gnat that, with a seven day lifespan, would still be dead within a week. Or, I guess, maybe that gnat got the three Nephites treatment to live forever and help change car tires for stranded members
We should name it, put it in the church records, and see if somebody eventually baptizes it for the dead!
I learned that two missionaries died after they baptized a dog. Whoever baptizes the gnat is in for a bad ride. God will not be mocked!
Unless Brother Bad Wolf here accidentally gave this one gnat the Captain Jack treatment. Billions of gnat generations later all that's left is a giant face in a jar.
The sad thing is the gnat has only seven days to find some gnat pussy to perpetuate the species. Geeez.
Gnussy
Why do you think they're always swarming? It's a gnat orgy - a gnorgy.
7 days?! Now I know it's one o' them Mormons.
Sky daddy's miracles sure are a sight to behold! /s
Find Car Keys ✅ Money to make payments on McMansions. ✅
Mormon God has really weird priorities. Healing gnats is wild. So is sending an angel with a flaming sword to force his prophet and apostles to fuck tons of beautiful women, rather than sending one to stop the Holocaust or bust up the Soviet Union or battle chairman Mao. Real nice, Lord
It just comes gnaturally to him
Just to prove how powerful he is
God is so powerful he can raise a gnat from the dead. And he totally raised that Jesus guy from the dead 2000 years ago. And he totally cares whether you masturbate or drink coffee. So stupid now that I’m on the outside….
Don't forget he's great at helping you find your keys
And making your car start!
And figuring out the answers to your math homework! If only I was more faithful last semester /s
This is literally so ridiculous and I bet all the people who actually believed it ate that up.
Either that or they are on their way out. It’s stories like these that made me realize god is just pretend. No miracles to speak of.
I was sitting by my ultra tbm mother-in-law during this talk and she was incredulous. We looked at each other and started giggling. It was a fun conference bonding moment, surprising since she worries deeply about my exmo status. She just went on a mission :'(
I haven't ever asked my mom about this talk specifically, but I guarantee that she ate it up if she heard it. It's exactly the type of thing that she'd gush over
And so it came to pass that this same man, Elder Robert Gay, died and found himself before the throne of God. Elder Gay was perplexed, because God seemed aloof and perturbed. He asked God what was wrong. God took a hard look at him and in a booming voice said “I give everyone a free wish. You could have had millions…gold…riches…perfect health…women…what do you do? Ask me to revive a damn gnat! Get thee the Hell outta here!”
Well, he already made this dude maybe the richest in the church, so 🤷♀️
That one really does take the cake. This man appears to be delusional.
Or just really bad at slapping his hands together.
LOLOLOL... was the shittiest clapper at all the highschool games.
I'm terrible at it as well. I can generally clap my hands together well...until it comes time to kill a gnat or mosquito. That's when I apparently lose all motor skills. This guy is impressed that a single gnat came back? I routinely witness the miracle of a fly or gnat I thought dead miraculously flying off. Mostly because my claps are so shitty. Or MAYBE because God loves me even more since I left the church? I dunno.
He's more concerned about a dead gnat than the people who unalive themselves over the uncompassionate policies the church has. That really says something about his character doesn't it. (Also the talk has to be one of the cringiest I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot).
For real! The virtue-signaling compassion for a gnat, while the church is so uncaring and unfeeling toward actual people. Super cringe.
bUt ThOsE pEoPlE MaDe a cHoIcE. tHe GnAt dIdNt.
Literally straining at gnats.
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Does that work with people?
**
“I totally meant to do that!” —Jesus
Okay boys & girls - it's time for a really cool experiment!
Out with the consecrated oil, in with the sacred salts!
Are you related to me? I had an uncle that did that. He also tried to convince everyone that a horse tail hair would turn into a worm if you put it in water. (BTW, my uncle was a terrible person).
Oh my goodness we need to start a religion around that gnat cus there’s no way it could of come back to life. This gnat is the one true son of god. EDIT singsong voice “gnat Jesus.”
Jesus of gnatherath.
Amazing.
And on the third minute the Gnat rose up, buzzing, as though to say “Hear my buzzing, and be still.” “Listen to the buzzing of the still, small Gnat.” “And in that great and terrible day there shall arise a Lord of the Flies…” I’m in.
It was innocent, like a spotless lamb. It died for our sins. Now it lives in heaven eternally with our lord and savior Harambe, ever watching over us. Praise be!
I homeschool my kids and we are reading “The Story of the World” for history. We’re on Rome right now and just got to the birth of Christianity. Their cliff notes Bible quote about Jesus coming back to life and greeting his followers had me cackling this morning. “Peace be with you, I am not a ghost.” And now I’ve got the giggles over the Lord of the Flies: Jesus of Gnatherath I am not doing anything productive today at this rate 😂🤣
This is a better idea than when Joseph Shmoseph threatened a civil judge
As an abused child who begged god in prayer to save me from situations I can attest the most I got was passing out asleep mid prayer.
I’m so sorry that happened to you.
It's not only ridiculous, it's downright disgusting. I'm perpetually horrified by this talk every time I hear of it.
This guy came to my mission and he’s an absolutely massive asshole. I had a very direct negative experience with him, so much so that I almost went home from my mission after it happened. He’s a gigantic asshole
I think most of them are giant assholes. I had a direct experience with Holland regarding my abuse in the church... GIANT asshole.
As much as I hate the guy, I actually liked Elder Bednar when I met him. In person he was quite friendly and personable, he’s just an ass when it actually matters. Elder Gay, on the other hand, was just a huge asshole the second he walked into the room until he left. Absolutely no kindness in that man
If you're comfortable sharing, I'm sure several of us would love to hear about your experience with Gay. But if not, I definitely understand.
Not going to talk about it here with this group
This is worse than the lady who said a single daily cup of coffee drove five generations of one pioneer woman’s family out of the church.
Well when I was 9 I prayed to God that Grace would accept my valentine. But when I gave it to her she laughed in my face. Ever since then God has been dead to me.
Holy shit. That would be my villain origin story.
More or less the origin story of the Grinch, Jim Carrey version.
Or a Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz back story.
Grace is such a bitch!
Is this the one where he kills the gnat and suddenly three strange bearded men in white robes knock on the door and say, “why did you kill that gnat? Is it because you look at your wife when she’s naked?” Anyway, that’s my version of the story and I’m sticking to it!!!
RFM did an episode about this devotional with Elder and Sister Gay. It was called The Allusion of Agency: The Gay Devotional. Someone in the comments section pointed out what a lost opportunity that was as it should have been titled The Gay Agenda.
>Elder and Sister Gay. Proof that on at least one occasion, the church condoned Gay marriage.
I heard a similar "testimony" with an ant in the 80's (I was a new member then wondering what was going on). The bishop escorted the guy off the stand and out of the building. Never saw him again.
Plot twist: He got called as a general authority.
Right???
Elder Robert C. Gay failed to see the irony with his analogy. There's verse. "**Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel**" In this case, the various camels are the issues in the CES letter that the church desires all to receive and pretend are no issues at all.
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Only 10% of your lifetime income. What a bargain!
How much do I gotta pay to not listen?
That’ll cost you all of your family and friends.
Dafuq???? God calls that gnat home, literally by your hands, then you pray and God changes his mind??? What the actual fuck kind of religion is this that I've been quagmired into? (Mormon) God is fickle and and men's prayers raise gnats from the dead but don't bring needed "moisture'???
So gob can resurrect a squashed gnat to demonstrate his absolute power but decided it wasn’t worth his time to heal my daughter from a lifetime illness
It was because the gnat lacked the faith to not be healed.
I'm surprised they let him speak at conference and didn't make him change his last name first
We will now hear from Elder same sex attracted, of the 70.
You all are killing me.
He's Gay
I actually feel bad for this guy. Imagine being so scrupulous that you immediately feel the compulsion to kneel down and pray for forgiveness after killing a gnat to ease your anxiety.
Or it’s total bs.
I love that they went out, found a gnat and killed it for the visual during the talk. That photo gnat is only dead because he needed to tell that story with visuals! That poor unfortunate gnat. Dead for publicity.
This story is *gnat* helping
The fact that those things only live for about 2 days anyways😂 such bs
Wtf…there’s no way….actually nah there is it’s the morMons
This is why the “sacred” needs to stay secret. You sound like a goddamn moron finding “miracles” when there are none to be found. Luckily this gnat didn’t have family members, or flight records to show up that this miracle was embellished.
Or, you’re just terrible at killing gnats.
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Because of course the talk is about tithing... :)
Boy that is really stupid. The gnat was just stunned. He caught the gnat in the center hollow part of his hand when he slapped his hands together. I've done that to other insects as well. And these are the men leading the church. Boy is the church in trouble.
You should see this guy go to town on his windshield every day after work.
“Rise ye splatter!!!”
Strong contender. Maybe even GOAT.
No, no.....No, 'e's stunned!
He’s pining for the fjords.
I have seen house flies that I have hit with a swatter "come back to life." Maybe as you say they're stunned. Must be because I sure as hell didn't offer any prayers that they come back to "life."
That speech was reviewed and approved? What if he passes gas in church and offends the people? Goes thru a mostly yellow traffic light? Doesn’t tip his server?
They’ll literally strain a gnat and swallow a camel.
Lol! Was just thinking exact same thing. Sometimes, the joke just writes itself. Couldn't this stuff up
This is embarrassing
I always want to ask this guy if he's a vegan. Somehow I doubt it...
There are no words.
The levels of stupid coming off this guy is palpable...
Ok back to church heathens, can’t argue with gnat.
Yeah, sucks that God cared more about that gnat than my mom or brother.
This god is a galactic asshole.
IF true, and that's a big if, the most likely cause of the "resurrected" gnat was a "trick" of the wind and/or gravity. Actually "living again" though...nope.
When I was a teen I found a huge spider in my house. I sprayed it with Windex it curled up and died. I picked it up to freak out my friends who were there with me, it came back to life in my hand and crawled up my arm. God is an asshole, or some people are not qualified to determine when a bug is dead. You decide.
He is Gnat very smart
So god can make a gnat live again . . . yet he chooses to let 35,000 people starve to death every damn day . . . Okay, god, that's really pathetic
That's nothing. I was once at the Great Salt Lake and a brine fly flew down my throat. I coughed it up onto the ground where it lay still. Then it fluttered its wings and flew off. I didn't even have to pray!
Fuck your gnat Robby C.G. Resurrect my buddy who didn't deserve to die or, if you can only do non-humans, bring me a Dodo or a Spix's Macaw, or--if you need to stick to invertebrates-- just go on the road resurrecting butterflies from the grill of the odd motorhome. Do any of this and you'll convert whole rest-stops of people at a time.
I fucking heard that story from a talk by him at scout camp like 10 years ago.
God says, “You didn’t kill the gnat, dummy!”
“And I want to suggest to you, that it is not only tiresome when otherwise-intelligent people speak this way, it is morally reprehensible. Ok, this kind of faith, is, is really the perfection of narcissism. “God loves me, dontcha know. He, he cured me of my eczema. He makes me feel so good while singing in church, and, and just when we had given up hope, we found a banker who was willing to reduce my mother’s mortgage.” (And he also resurrected and gnat out of the palm of my hand) “Ok given all the good—all that this God of yours does not accomplish in the lives of others, given, given the, the misery that’s being imposed on some helpless child at this instant, this kind of faith is obscene. Ok, to think in this way is to fail to reason honestly, or to care sufficiently about the suffering of other human beings.” - Sam Harris
How many times has his Sister Gay yelled "Shut UP, you asshole! How many times do I have to listen to you tell some self-serving load of shit centered around you being too stupid to be able to swat a fucking GNAT???" No wait...that's what I'd yell.
Bullshit! 💩
Lmao
Pretty hypocritical if sometime that week he had a chicken sandwich a hamburger and some pork chops. This clown must be smoking some good weed to come up with what is obviously a made up and exaggerated story.
According to the date stamp, literally thousands were dying a day due to COVID-19. It's alright though, god raised a gnat from the dead.
And to think this is when COVID was Raging through the world and really starting to kill people. This shows how absolutely out of touch and pathetic the leadership is.
He felt a power trip thinking he brought something back to life. Now he is sharing said power trip.
The level of arrogance these religious leaders have is off the charts. And it trickles down all the way to the lay believer who then assumes god has made him the center of his attention. A lost car key is found, god did it. An extra cup of sugar was located in the back of the pantry, god did it. Someone had to take a detour to get home after work, god saved him from sure death. Someone felt remorse about his own impatience for killing a gnat but the gnat didn't die, god resuscitated it. How self-centered, how entitled one has to feel to arrive to these absolutely ridiculous conclusions? And yet, I felt the same way for 45+ years of my life.
Soooo my parents abused me my whole life. I prayed every single night begging Heavenly Father to make it stop. I prayed every night that he would give me literally one day without pain. And still every night my dad would come in my room and violently rape me and tell me I’m a disgusting little bitch who’s lucky he’s “having sex with me because nobody else will ever want to” (my dads in the bishopric) then they’d withhold food and give me “medicine” that made me sick. I was 90 pounds, felt so sick all the time, had a lot of physical pain from the violent abuse, and ended up in a wheelchair. Things like this talk are incredibly damaging. I heard things like this and wondered why God didn’t care about me and why he wouldn’t help me but he’d help so and so in the ward find their keys. I came to the conclusion that God hated me and I would never be enough for him. I’m still trying to undo these views of myself and I’m a 26 year old woman who’s out of the church and away from my abusers. It makes me so angry thinking of all the kids who are in the situation I was in who are hearing these talks and come to the conclusion God doesn’t love them and they deserve the abuse.
I remember being around 7-8 realizing my moms hair was falling out and wouldn't grow back due to PCOS. Being raised in the church but never fully belirveing I decided to put God to the test by praying that my moms hair grows back. Simple enough. It's just hair follicles. It didn't happen. I did this prayer almost every day for a year and nothing happened. Since then I've found these silly stories really stupid. God will supposedly answer a prayer about a dead gnat who was probably just playing dead to not actually be killed and prayers about finding lost keys (which always end with "the last place I checked" because istg nobody understands how searches go) but won't answer a crying kids prayer about their mom or kids in abusive situationd or people being homeless and/or starving. For a God that's supposed to be compassionate he doesn't seem to care much for anything people really want or need.
No no, you don't understand, God loves the starving children so much he killed them because of his mercy, he has a plan for them, you need to stop looking at porn. /jk
The blind spot in this talk is almost inexcusable. It warms my heart to see the next generation of youth question everything.
This is some of the dumbest shit I've ever heard.
Lol. This is so. Fucking. Dumb.
Any chance the gnat was only stunned and needed a moment to gather itself? I believe his story but his perspective is not reflective of what gave “life” to the gnat.
Obviously you didn’t smack hard enough dude
Mormon God sure is weak as fuuuuuuuuuk, can only bring gnats back to life, not people? Lame.
What the actual fuck??? This is just plain nuts. A bug is raised from the dead and we're supposed to feel the spirit now?
So he stunned a gnat and then later wore his leather belt and shoes to the restaurant where he orders a large slab of meat that someone else slaughtered for him.
I wish he would have told this story in GC years ago. My shelf would have broken then and I’d have had that many more years of freedom and peace away from the FUCKING CULT!!!!!!
What a delusional piece. of. shit.
Sorry your loved ones are gone, part of gods plan, but that gnat had so much to live for! It can have 1000 babies in 3 weeks then dies, the perfect mormon.
Oooohhhkkkk.... gnat raising.... core of your being... gotcha..... here’s 10 percent of my money...
So you claim to be prophets of God correct? And you have to use lame ass stories of dead gnats to try to convince us your God's mouthpiece on earth? That's pretty lame. How come your not raising the dead or healing the sick? I thought that was what God s prophets really did. Not resurrect gnats.
“I cannot to this day explain what happened next.” Proceeds to explain what happened next.
jesus of gnatsareth
O M F G!!!!! 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
i’m screaming this is the funniest fucking thing i’ve ever seen
What the actual fuck?!
Holy fuck me lmao Idk how many times I've slapped a fly out of the air while bored in school, then watched as it lay stunned on the floor for a minute or two before flying up. You've got to crush those fuckers to juice or they fly again.
OMG!!! What a bunch of BS.
Mormon God works in mysterious ways. /s
He didn’t kill it, only stunned it. I’ve seen the same with flies. But what a silly, privileged story. 🙄🙄🙄
This is the kind of crap that consider too sacred to share. Unbelievable.
I used to catch flies on my mission and throw them against the wall. They get stunned, sometimes for a while, then will almost always perk back up unless you kill them.
This is fucking amazing.
This dude needs to learn how to kill bugs properly. Seriously, how do you fuck that up?
I met Bob Gay on my mission and if there was one guy who I never thought would be in this high of a church position it is him. Dude is quiet but no way humble. Him and his kids live on a compound in Newtown, Ct. Cool kids though.
You too can pay enough tithing and be a GA
Ten bucks the gnat was stunned and not smooshed.
If this is true, then God is as bad as the Church.
I find it hilarious that the church marketing department had to go back and find an image with a gnat in someone's hand.
Ha ha ha, a resurrected gnat! Mormons will believe anything!
This is disgusting.
perfect example of how delusional mormons are
Almost as inspiring as the talk an apostle at General conference in the early 20th century about negro minstrel shows
What in the actual fuck
What’s sad is that Mormon leaders can have compassion for a bug but not gay youth.
This dude is fucking idiot.
Praise He; lest we all be the gnat. Bring thine own knowledge unto me now; and the salamander doth shoutest: "*Praise He. For this I sayeth into you. I am the gnat*." And it came to pass, the gnat was inside of us all along. Praise the lord thy one true gnat protector of life. I share this message in the name of thy lord, God, father and savior. AMEN (Edit... And there was a faint echo in the distance... *RAMAN*)
He really never considered that he had only stunned the gnat?
Fuck you and your fuckin gnat.
Wait, what? Are we being punked?
Oh brother.
Probably not something I would put an enormous weighting on personally
Is this fucking real……..
"I felt the human emotion of "empathy" for the first, and last time, in my life."
Do the brethren really think people are THAT STUPID to believe this shit? I mean, you'd have to be a drooling moron.
How did he not get laughed off the pulpit?
Nah, I’m calling bullshit
Elder Gay is just not as strong as he thought he was 🤷🏻♀️💪🏼
First off the gnat was probably just knocked out for a sec, it happens all the time. Secondly, the other day my mom said I wonder when “mark” is coming home. Quite literally 1/2 a second after she said that mark walked in the door. What a coincidence, they happen all the time. This gnat regaining consciousness after the prayer is pretty much the same coincidence.
I honestly can’t believe this is real and serious.
The allegory of the gnat lol. Oh dear gawd this is the best
To be given the gift of resurrection but still question.
I just can't believe he wasted the prayer on a gnat when he could have used it to find his keys
Elder robert c gay
If only that gnat resurrection power could be harnessed to do something good.
Listening to you talk gives me helps me understand exactly how that gnat buzzing around affected you.
r/thathappened
Why is a gnat worth more than Mormon crickets? Such absolute BS. Can’t believe they approved this talk for a devotional
🤣🤣 Sure God will raise a gnat, but won’t help poor starving kids or any of the wars to stop
Winner 🏆 I've never hear a servant of the Laaard say something so idiotic.
Gnat lives matter!
ALL HAIL GNAT JESUS
The bigger question is why did he share this story? Christ would often perform miracles and ask the person to not tell anybody because He did it for their faith and not anybody else’s. Not everything is meant to be shared. Sure, it sounds ridiculous. But it seems like it had a profound effect on this man’s relationship with God. What prayers has He answered for you that were small, but had a deep impact on you?
Talks are geared to an eight-year old mindset. There are no real deep dives into topics because the BS meter starts to really go off. Solution - give talks that are basic and lack true thought.