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Date: February 12, 2014 12:00AM
Today was the day; I decided to tell my parents that my Wife and I are going to be leaving the church. I’m still not sure why I did it because I was going to wait a little longer; I guess I just got sick of pretending like I’m active around them. Just for some clarifying details, my Wife and I are in our mid-twenties and have recently graduated college.
So the conversation started when my Dad asked me why I didn’t wear a white shirt to church this past Sunday; I told him I didn’t think it mattered and I highly doubt Jesus would care, as long I was there. He took my response as some kind of bitter sarcasm and immediately got defensive. This eventually spiraled into a discussion fueled by politics and religion, where I basically told my parents I see nothing wrong with gay marriage and legalization of marijuana (probably the two biggest issues that they always complain about whilst quoting Rush Limbaugh). My Mom then informed me of how she REALLY feels about gays and lesbians by telling me she thought the church was too lenient with them. Wow…just wow.
My parents have known for some time that I have had issues with church history and other aspects of TSCC, but I decided to open up the floodgates and tell them that I was going to go all-out and remove my name from church records. Looking back, I don’t think I handled this as well as I could have, and the results were just disastrous. My Dad immediately started yelling about my parents having feelings too and that we can’t just go and break their hearts like this. They started crying and said that Satan has deceived me and compared viewing “anti-Mormon” literature to a porn addiction. At this point I stopped trying to talk and just stared at them and the floor, shaking my head as they continued their tirade of guilt.
They stated that I was stopping my brothers and sisters from being happy by choosing this path; how that makes any sense is beyond me. They repeated the same phrase over and over again: “If you follow through with this decision, you will never find true happiness and will realize one day that you have made a terrible mistake.”
So let me get this straight: if I refuse to be Mormon (which includes having a church calling, paying 10% of my income, wearing ridiculous clothing and participating in secret handshakes and passwords) then I will NEVER be happy in my life and NOTHING good will ever happen to me? Well, that’s funny, because I stopped wearing garments over a year ago, and my life has been going pretty great.
Needless to say, there is absolutely no point in arguing with TBMs because they are too ingrained with their own doctrine to ever consider the other side’s point of view. The conversation did not end well, and I left feeling horrible; not because I felt I was doing the wrong thing by leaving the church, but because of the sadness knowing that my parents will go to their graves believing in this fraud.
I don’t believe in god, Jesus, heaven or hell, but I hope the leaders of this cult get what they deserve one way or another.