Posted by:
The 1st FreeAtLast
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Date: May 14, 2013 03:22AM
Being an adult involves making decisions for one's life regardless of whether anyone else, including parents, agrees or not. The cat's out of the bag, so to speak, and that's a good thing in your case, because from this moment forward, you can choose to be truthful w/ your parents.
You're certainly not responsible for your mother's Mormonism-based, nonsensical belief 'bubble' or her emotion-driven reaction to learning that you're no longer a believer (in JS' fraudulent religion).
The bottom line is that TSCC systematically misled you - and millions of other Mormons - about JS, the BoM (the so-called "keystone" of Mo-ism), early church history, and much more. People have been leaving "in droves", according to a Jan. 2012 Reuters report (http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/01/30/uk-mormonchurch-idUKTRE80T1CP20120130) and
http://www.abc4.com/content/news/top_stories/story/Number-of-faithful-Mormons-rapidly-declining/rvih3gOKxEm5om9IYJYnRA.cspx?p=Comments).
Don't forget that the dishonest and manipulative LD$ Church repeatedly indoctrinated to hand over at least 1/10th of your money gifts, wages, etc. to the very rich church - but didn't share it increasing wealth w/ you. You, and millions of other Latter-day Saints were never given a share of the church's enormous real estate portfolio, for example.
If you didn't pay tithing, you were 'programmed' to believe that the quality of your mortal existence would suffer and you would not be allowed into the CK after death, to enjoy eternity w/ your LDS family members and friends.
The cultic, 'one, true' corporation of Je$u$ Chri$t used fear-mongering to coerce you to 'pray, pay, and obey'. In law, psychological manipulation is characterized as a duress crime.
There are facts in my recent post (May 09, 2013 03:56AM) at
http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,888649,889393#msg-889393 that you could use in future discussions w/ your parents, if you so decide.
Whatever you do, DO NOT apologize for leaving the dishonest, money-grubbing LD$ Church! For generations, the unethical organization has perpetrated a MASSIVE fraud, raking in tens of billions of $$$ from duped and 'brainwashed' members.
Your parents should have woken up to the LD$ scam years ago, but they failed to activate their critical thinking and scrutinize their religion. They've wasted much of their lives supporting a religious sham; you're not obliged to follow in their footsteps.
Good luck!