It’s been a while since we’ve had a new installment explicitly about Mormonism on PostSecret, but today’s batch of secrets included the following:
The author of this card’s blog can be found at http://makebelievemormon.blogspot.com.
This secret is especially interesting to me. Feeling like you have to fake your religious beliefs, of course, is tragic. But choosing to belong to a religious tradition that you don’t necessarily feel passionate about for the sake of family unity shouldn’t be. What about Mormonsim makes some individuals feel like they need to fake being a full-believer rather than simply being involved in the church for cultural or social reasons?
Does anyone else remember getting unofficial-yet-often-repeated advice from church leaders that if you don’t have a testimony you should fake it ’till you make it?
The rest of my LDS PostSecret collection can be found here. As always, if you know of any LDS-themed PostSecrets that aren’t in my collection, I’d appreciate it if you let me know.