Former mormons on leaving their belief

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Story and Photo by Heidi Hansen

excerpts:
....."“Yet, the more I read, the more questions I had,” he says. “It seemed like Joseph Smith’s life was full of questionable events that I had never been exposed to.
“Joseph Smith was a mortal man,” he said. “Mortal men make mistakes. The big question is: Did he make the kind of mistakes a true prophet of God wouldn’t make?” Albertson said. “For me that answer is yes.”....

....."But David Phillips says he has been open with his family about his decision to leave the church, although it was awkward to discuss it. But he was relieved to get it all out.

“They were curious why I left, and discussed the reasons for it,” Phillips said. “Although I can tell many of them are disappointed with my decision, I have not felt a loss of love from any of them. I am very lucky.”.....

here, a striking one !!

By Tim H.Henney on Jan 17, 2012

The Post Mormon piece is the most thought-provoking, refreshing, honest college journalistic effort I have seen during 17 years of USU-watching. We left Logan after 10 years convinced that the LDS \"church\" is a dangerous, devious, criminally managed cult whose history and present has been and remains driven by legal sexual predation (by LDS legal standards) and incredible public relations skill. (It wasn\’t a \"mob\" that nailed Brother Smith in the Carthage jail but farmers, shop keepers, teachers, community leaders who feared for the safety of their wives and daughters — and with good cause. Yet the world thinks otherwise). The \"church\" is a deceitful, nasty, highly profitable social cancer. Was and Is. Nice job, Heidi Hansen. Watch your back.

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Walter Kirn is the National Correspondent at The New Republic. This article appeared in the August 2, 2012 issue of the magazine.

....."But I didn’t have the patience, or the humility. I wasn’t a son of stubborn pioneers. I was the son of the lawyer on the plane who’d suffered the breakdown I thought I could avoid. I left the Church as abruptly as I’d entered it. No formalities, no apologies, no goodbyes.".....

comment to the above:

07/17/2012 - 12:27am EDT | skahn

Years ago, my wife and I owned a pre-print business in Portland, OR. We were hired by a local Mormon Bishop to produce marketing materials. They paid well, and were easy to work with. As I read over the materials, I thought, "This is just plain 'marketing,' no different than selling soap or automobiles." I kept waiting for them to preach to me, but there were purely business, though always polite and focused, and they never let pleasure interfere with business.

I also on another job worked with a talented, intelligent woman from a splinter Mormon group. She had fled her family (in Kansas City) but when our current employer (not religious) proved as obnoxious as her family, she sighed deeply, fled back to KC, where her family helped her buy a hardware store and drove her nuts by interfering with her life.

I repeat. Mormons are cuckoos, with a nutty religion, taking over our nutty religion's nest, and the intruder bird is trying to take over the White House nest. He's very clumsy, but he's big and strong, and never underestimate people's desire for religious nonsense, especially when tied to money.

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from Alan Christensen

The people who take the trouble to resign tend to be those who studied their way out of the church (as opposed to those who just drifted away because they don't want to do it anymore). The studying usually continues.

I left for the sake of my mental health. I couldn't say at the time whether the religion was true or false. All I knew was that the constant guilt from failing to be perfectly righteous was causing me to spiral down the drain of self-loathing. Luckily, I had enough clarity left to realize I had to step away, at least for a while, or I'd end up totally dysfunctional, or dead at my own hand. Once my perspective shifted a bit, I had a "Truman Show" moment. My subconscious self was able to break through enough for me to realize I didn't actually believe in anything supernatural, that it had only been indoctrinated into me.

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Everyone keeps congratulating me.
by Jenny in Australia from Recovery from Mormonism - 04/20/2008

I am gradually getting to meet new people since leaving the morg (Mormon Church). The thing that has really surprised me is everyone's reaction. They congratulate me, tell me how happy they are for me. The other night one lady said to me that she use to belong to a cult as well.

I had no idea that people all thought we were so weird. At church we were always taught that people look up to us and respect us because of our high standards etc. Not the case at all. They are respectful 'TO' mormons, but they don't respect mormons.

Friends that I have known nearly all my life who are not members have welcomed me into their life. ( I didn't spend much time with them before as being a mormon with six kids took ALL of my time ). I am meeting so many new people and I am having a ball. I feel like I'm going through my teens again. or... maybe its my midlife crisis lol. Either way it sure is fun.

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© Diane Tingen, 6/23/2011
"After all, the programming runs deep - and the brainwashing is difficult to counteract."

After that, I was invited to join a couple of Facebook discussion groups, and I have met some other amazing people on there - Former Mormons, PostMormons, ExMormons, others who are questioning Mormonism, and still others who know for certain that the church is not true but are still going to church because of family pressures (sometimes called Shadow Mormons). I have become very close "cyber-friends" with many of these people, and am planning on meeting many of them at the next ExMormon Foundation Conference in October 2011.

It has been quite a journey over the past 3 years. Through it all, I have seen myself evolve from what I would consider a Former Mormon woman who kept quiet about what I had discovered, not having reached a point where I felt comfortable expressing my views, to a full-blown ExMormon who is very vocal about what I consider to be a destructive religious organization that deals very fast and loose with the truth.

JOSEPH, THE VERY THOUGHT OF YOU
Sung to the tune of Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee, #141

Joseph, the very thought of you
Fills me with such disdain.
Making it up so blatantly,
Facts no one can explain.

What were you thinking when you said
All of it came from God?
It is apparent to me now
You were a total fraud.

Why did you think it was okay
To all those women wed?
It is so obvious to me
You wanted them in bed.

Joseph created all of it,
Made up the Mormon Church.
It is so clear when studied out,
Just do your own research.

© Diane Tingen, 11/9/2011

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wow, LDS present portrait of Joseph Smith looks like some US president

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Read Twain's account aloud

A Contemporary Account of a Mormon Massacre

Mark Twain on the Mountain Meadows Massacre of
120 American men, women and children, including
ex-Mormons attempting to escape the church,
Roughing It,

Other Stuff Glenn Can, if Possible, Prove...

Prove to me, since your "prophet" to this day excuses the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 120 American men, women and children that; your cult is not terrorist. There is a verse in the Book of Mormon that justifies murder when the church teachings are opposed. It reads that "It is better that one man should perish, than for a whole nation to dwindle and perish in disbelief." (1 Nephi 4:13)
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Bev

My Mormon heritage goes all the way back to Joseph Smith. My genealogy crosses his genealogy. My beginnings were in a small town in Idaho. I went to church in an old stone building across the street from my house. Sundays were fun hearing stories about Jesus and getting a gold star on my forehead. We had a big family and lots of friends, all Mormon. I have fond memories of friendships and social gatherings.

.....The Mormon Church taught that if you were not a Mormon you would not live with God in Heaven. “No!” I said to this teaching. “A church and all it rules and regulations cannot get you to Heaven. Jesus already did that on the cross at Calvary.” I came to the conclusion that all the interviews I had from the Church to check on my worthiness was not of God, it was of man. God is my daily interviewer. Everything from the Mormon Church was man intervening between God and me.

Beginning in High School and my two years at Ricks College, I began to ask some serious questions about Mormonism. No one could answer my questions in a way that seemed right, and I was told by the Mormon Church that I did not have enough “faith.” .....

Please Click HERE to Contact Me through Our ExMormon Ministry Team Form

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Nancy Pais
Boston, MA

Mormons believe that they will one day become gods.
Mormons believe that anyone outside of their church will live in outer darkness though out eternity.
Mormons believe that they are the only true church and that God speaks only to them.
Mormons believe that Jesus Christ was created by a sexual act between God and Mary.
Mormons believe that they will eventually become gods through their own works.

Satan also believed he should be a god worthy of praise for his own works.

Can we really afford to have a misguided blasphemer in the White House.

Romney believes in creating more tax cuts for the rich.
Romney believes in burdening the lower classes further to pay for these tax cuts to the rich.
Romney believes that he is a chosen leader by God.
Romney believes he did nothing wrong at Bain Capital.
Romney believes that cuts to programs for the poor is acceptable to attain his goals

Can we really afford a man who has little compassion for the needy to be in the White House.

You will know them by their fruits and I smell a rotten apple.

Aug. 23, 2012 at 2:33 a.m

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This graph is from a 2011 online survey of over 3000 Mormons who at one time believed their church was true, but no longer believe. (Link below)

Causes and Costs of Mormon Disbelief
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kasi Odin, Thor, and Loko ... este Loki is not part of their bible.








read their bible and learn why.

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But they have the best choir in the world!

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maybe because there is this white supremacy inclination especially how the bible was rewritten or extended.