It falls to us, the exmormon community and our outliers to come up with a new moniker for the Mormon who has ceased believing but continues on with no enthusiasm, enduring without faith.

They aren't really New Order Mormons because those are semi-believers, yea even activists, who have hope that renewal or revolution is right around the corner.

I'm talking about those with eyes glazed over in the whatever mode, no interest in even talking about "issues," just phoning it in. Butt in the seat, as agreed.

Brainstorming...free association....bring it on all you creative apatheists!


Kathleen Waters

"The Obedient Dead"

How about "Zombons" or "Morbies"...i know them both well.

That "state of being" that you so aptly describe is literally a Mormon Zombie.

It's that state of being a glazed-eyed walking-dead Mormon as you check your brain at the front doors of the Chapel after you and your family arrive for another Sunday dose of Mormonism.

Only to pick up your brain again as you exit the building and back into the light of day...and reality.

Or so it seems to me...

The drunken porn watchin' gamblin' cheatin' on yer spouse gang

Note: I thought we were coming up with a new name for exmormons. My bad.



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Latter Dazed Saints

faintly saintly

correlated zombies

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Those get my vote!!!!!!

The living dead of Modum.

A 'memer' is someone who accepts the idea of Mormonism without believing. Not quite a complete member, but a bee short.

Or take out the first m, leaving an ember! He or she is burnt out!

WOW!

Just Wow!!!

It ain't my thread but if i could call "bingo"...i think we have a winner!

I think ElderOldDog has the winning moniker..."ember".

A perfect description of "burnt-out" members!

Or so it seems to me...

I vote for "ember."

I don't really like drones, or zombies because it implies they aren't using their brains.

A lot of these embers know the truth, but continue to go for familial reasons. They are burnt out, but have to physically put their butt in the pew to maintain peace.

Vote cast for "embers"

I vote for Ember.

oh those crazy embers.. they just don't want to hear anything.. but they will complain ad-naseum about their callings and still continue to go.

its so speshul

I'm voting twice for embers.

nobody said I couldn't vote twice

How about "NOAH"?

That's my new name and I don't use it any more, so I'll be happy to lend it away to those poor people that you (the OP) described.



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"the Mormon who has ceased believing but continues on with no enthusiasm, enduring without faith"

I thought that was the definition of a MINO (Mormon In Name Only), but since we're cooking up new ones…

Tablet Mormons (looking at tablets for full 3-hr block)
Dronites
Normons
Kill Me Now Mormons
ISTBU Mormons (It Sucks To Be Us)
Knights Who Say Ni (sorry; don't know why I said that)

Tablet Mormons=Mo Tabs (same name as Choir)

What is the new apathy handshake vs temple handshake?

De flocked?

FTM or FTMM: Fake it To Make it (Mormons)
TrBM: Terrestrial Bound Mormons
LAME: Lazy-Ass Mormon Enigmas
JSM: Just a Stat Mormons
ASCM: A So-Called Member
Or, in reference to a post above, the Knights of Ekke Ekke Ekke Ekke Ptangya Zooooooom Boing (Ni). Or the Knights who until recently said Ni for short.
And going off of that a bit: the Knights who wear the not-so-shiny, hand-me-down, pit-stained, not-quite-whole armor of god.

Smormons (Semi-Mormons)
FrappaMormons (cold Mormons or mixed up/confused)
Smorgas-Mos (similar to cafeteria Mos)
Recyclo-Mos (repeat Ensign articles, GA talks...)
Mormanians (part maniacal)
Mormonese (language only they understand)
Mormonesques (slightly Mormon)
Vague-Mos (barely recognizable)
Repeti-Mos (same conversations, going through the motions)
Robo-Mos (robot/Mormon)
Morm-zies (combos)
Mom-zies (moms+zombies)
Generi-Mos (generational Mormons or Generic Mormons)
Cheeri-Mos (fake happiness)
Whack-a-Mos (keep returning to church)
Morph-mons (morph into whatever type of member they need to be)
Anony-Mos (don't really want a calling)
Mo-Bryds (hybrid Mormons)
Pos-Mos (posing as Mormons)

OK...I guess I wasn't a NOM when I was in. I was a Pos-Mo.

Drones (they might be at church but their brain is elsewhere, plus they conduct surveillance activities for us exmos)

Sleepers (in recognition of what they spend most of their time doing at church, plus they are like spies that are waiting to be activated)

My vote goes to "embers" though, because when a wildfire approaches it is the embers that get inside the house and burn it to the ground.

AWs. They are apostates within. AWLDS could also be used. Note that, contrary to the TSCC technical definition in the handbook, the world view is that one who no longer believes is an apostate.

Snormons - they sleep through everything

What about LaMos or LemMos in honor of Laman and Lemuel. They were constantly complaining that Lehi's plans were full of shit, but they still went along with them, not having enough gumption to go back home. They wandered in the wilderness and even sailed away into the unknown on a ship, all the while not believing what daddy and brother were preaching.

LaMos-- as in Lame-Os
This one gets my vote!

Although this is ripe for puns, jokes, new ideas...

There are 2 types of "non-believers"

1) The New Order Mormons, still believe in the corporation and many of its organized groups; yet don't believe in the BoM or BoA as actual translations but more as "inspired" scriptures. Also they don't accept all of the past and some of the present revelations as being from God (Women can't hold priesthood, Gays not allowed, not allowing non-members to attend temple sealings, etc...). Yet they believe the corporation was and could still be a "Christian Organization" and return back to a Church of Worship/Charity.

2) The Social/Chapel Mormon. These are the ones that definitely don't believe; yet they're trapped by Family, Business or just feel a need to belong to some sort of organization. They think they're doing for Boy Scouts, Young Women, Relief Society or some other supposed need.

Either one I think don't realize how their attendance and funding of the corporation is hurting, even killing their fellow man.

If they followed Faust's own speech "The Enemy Within":

"Some people wear masks of decency and outward righteousness but live lives of deception, believing that, like Dr. Jekyll, they can live a double life and never be found out. James said, “A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.” In the Book of Mormon we read the account of Corianton, who went on a mission to the Zoramites with his father and brother. His double life caused him to forsake his ministry and his father to lament, “O my son, how great iniquity ye brought upon the Zoramites; for when they saw your conduct they would not believe in my words.”

Hypocrites are those who outwardly wear masks that portray goodness but inwardly practice evil and deceit. Such were the scribes and Pharisees who came to the Savior pretending to be troubled in conscience and to be seeking His wise counsel. “Master,” they said in flattering tone, “we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men.”
https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2000/10/the-enemy-within?lang=eng&query=hypocrites



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Poor shmucks comes to my mind....But seriously leaning toward the zombie references ... Describes them perfectly.

Embers. Perfect.

Sleepers

..."just in case" Mormons. They stay in the church just in case it's true.

Another suggestion: you've heard of "dry Mormon?" Someone who believes in it but hasn't yet joined? The opposite would be a "wet apostate."

Or how 'bout Mormon seat-fillers? They don't believe or contribute, but they fill seats.

Or how 'bout MOBIs? Mind out, body in.

How about " Licked cupcakes" ?

I'm voting for 'embers, and I think that's how it should be spelled, with the apostrophe.

Latter-Detainee

Testi-moaners

A new moniker for the Mormon who has ceased believing but continues on with no enthusiasm, enduring without faith?

Majority would be apposite, as most Mormons feel that way.