David

Name a huge scam that has been normalised?

The notion that the Garments of Skin given to Adam are passed down from generation to generation and contains a civilizational power is not something we invented for the Godsdog series. It is described in the book Jasher and then other later traditions. The traditions usually go until Jacob taking them from Esau after Esau stole them from Nimrod. We then continue this tradition using the prophetic transfer of a hairy garment with Elijah, pushing that logic until St John the Baptist. After that, we speculate about who and how that power is held. The garments of skin are real enough for this story to have survived in second temple literature, and they are real enough that Christian authors like St Gregory of Nyssa make them into an image of exteriority and our passions. So that makes them pretty real. At 10 years old, I would suggest you simply ask your son who he thinks would have the garments of skin today.

Josiah Trenham is clearly trying to use Orthodoxy as a means of promoting his reactionary politics. I don’t understand how some can’t see this. It’s very concerning, and it is unbecoming of his priesthood and an insult to our Church and faith.

Hot take… The prophets since Joseph Smith have not seemed as revelatory and groundbreaking as him partly because the church is under condemnation. If we ask not, we receive not.