My conscience would not allow me to continue subscribing to bogus 19th Century racist myths, after DNA evidence debunked them.

I didn't want to be a chump.

Is that something you'd say to somebody you knew, respected and/or admired?



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I could no longer align myself with an organization whose very foundation was built by an adulterous, lying, conniving sexual pervert who was banging 14 year old girls and "marrying" other mens' wives.

Thats my attitude, on the internet, but in real life, I've got good friends who are Mormon, who are fully aware of every dirty rotten deed committed by JS and BY, yet they still sing the praises of a rapist, and send their kids on Missions to go convert the world to thus bogus, institution of bigotry.
I dont get what makes them so different from you and me.

I left because it is bereft of truth and offers no positive value for being associated with it.

True.
If it were true no sacrifice would be too much.
Since it is patently false, any sacrifice is too much.

A total breakdown in trust after the poop stone was revealed and they revised the "translation" process to include the rock in the hat-!

Interesting.
I really started losing trust after reading Under The Banner of Heaven.
I lost all trust in the Brethren when I read Steve Benson's 'Why I Left".
I should have lost all faith in thenbwhen they changed the temple ceremony and took out all the suicidal oaths they told me were required for exaltation.
Then removed for no reason, with no explanaion whatsoever.

I no longer needed external validation.

It's all a lie.

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> It's all a lie.

Yep, and evidence clearly shows so.

I cannot live the life I am intended to live within the prison of mormonism.

This was my thinking at about 6 or 7 years old.....the thought of a life inside mormonism scared the bejeebus out of me.

I gained a broader worldview, and Mormonism became incompatible with it.

It's a demonstrably false and harmful cult. Or religion. Whatever.

(So I reckoned I had better things to do than make-work and meetings about meetings.)

family...isn't it about time? (got tired of the church taking ALL my time away from my young family)

I found its ultra-conservative, gender-biased, racist, homophobic views to be totally incompatible with my own more liberal views.

I will NOT bow my head and say yes to anyone.

I left because I saw the unrepentant damage it does to people and families that don't fit into its paradigm.

I can't believe in a kind and loving Father in Heaven who loves each of his children and yet allows them to inflict so much pain & suffering to each other as if it were nothing.

In my experience the real answers to big-league questions have always been more interesting than the bogus ones mormonism offers.

They demanded I pretend it's real.

The Gerontocracy gave me reason to believe what my gut had been telling me for a while.

I got tired of pretending it didn't matter.

I'm 16 and I want to have sex with the girls at school.

A fraud convicted, pedophilic, and polyandrous founding prophet,

Because even if it's true, it's silly.

I wasn't raised to be a doormat, so I didn't fit in with the Stepford Wife ideal.

I was looking at permanent damage to my neck because of the way I fell asleep during S&M.

I decided that an eternity in hell was better than three hours at church.

I couldn't kick my porn addiction so I decided to kick my guilt addiction.

It turns out that I didn't leave them, they left me.

can't pretend they aren't.

I was over strangers inviting themselves over once a month to judge me.

The Bible, the BoM, the D&C, and the PoGP (I won't waste my time with "scripture" ever again).

I hated being pestered by a TBM asshole who kept invoking the "your Dad would be so happy if you came back to church (a place I hadn't given a fuck about in decades) and brought your wife". He had no fucking clue about the loving respectful relationship I had with my dear father. Something he is lacking with his own children.

RB



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I didn't feel that I could like an authentic life.

I don't like it when people pee on me and tell me it is rain.

I am homosexual.

After giving it my best try for 40 years, it just didn't work for me.

It's all bullshit.

50 years of trying and couldn't find any lasting truth....
Gatorman
8-4
8-3

I had done all the things that were required of me and the promised blessings never materialized, as prayers were never answered, priesthood blessing given or received did nothing, and Council from the Brethren always produced the opposite effect of that which was promised, so NOTHING EVER WORKED, period.

I no longer wanted my name to be associated with that organization.

Racist teachings and people and services bored me to tears

I had more meaningful things to do in my life than belong to a religion based on a fantasy of a 14 year old adulterating snake oil seller.

Because I found out that the whole thing is a sham and I couldn't continue to live a lie.

Mine at first,was because I hated always being put on the spot when asked to give the prayer or read in RD or gospel doctrines class. I just get very nervous and have a hard time. I'm always embarrassed to say " no". I've been like that since grade school.
I finally stopped going when we moved out of state, but still read the church magazines and books. It wasn't until I came here ,and found out through the Internet, church teachings that I never knew existed, especially JS, and different versions about everything. Hockey

Didn't believe in it's core and foundational doctrines=I wasnt Mormon anymore

I didn't agree with pretty much the entire Proclamation on the Family.

I saw what action the cult took when someone I love needed help - they took the deplorable road that benefited the cult and couldn't care less for those they left in deep pain on the side of the road.

Blew 'em off upon learning that Masonic-Illuminist agitators in old New England had conspired to set her afoot along with many similar church-fronts (see carvings on the SL Temple walls).

I studied Mormonism Shadow or Reality on my mission in order to be able to refute the arguments of anti-Mormons or "misguided" non-Mormons who heard anti-Mormon arguments. I realized the antis were actually the ones telling the truth and my testimony collapsed.

I can do it in one word.

Hypocrisy

It kept me in ignorance of God's true sovereignty!!

I realized that the Book of Mormon is not real.

They Lied to me; part of my training was to pass their lies on to others.


Game Over.



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The construction of lies in Mormonism kept lining up like dominos until the winds of truth blew each lie over causing the whole lined facade to topple successively leaving nothing worthwhile standing.

I don't like dishonest, abusive leaders.

I left the LDS Church because I could no longer believe in any of it as the entire claim of visions, hidden golden plates, Book of Mormon translations, etc. by Joseph Smith Jr. were complete fabrications about imaginary people, places and things that never will have any validity.