Shunned at Olive Garden.

So, after my friend and her H (our former home teacher) zoomed past us holding their collars up over one eye, I thought, *hmmmm, they used to like us.*

I do know they lost a daughter. Maybe the Smith scheme of sealing themselves to her is too painful to abandon, and too frightening a thought to let some apostates derail that hope with the truth, no matter what good friends they used to be. Clearly not worth the risk of losing that sealing to a little daughter. Best to run away.

So I didn’t say anything.

I understand.

And I started to think--those poor people--and what a Sinister.Marketing.Scheme they fell for and cling to.



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I sometimes think of family members I haven't seen attending the arduous meetings and running around with callings and weeknight meetings. That gospel of theirs is far too frantic for me. It's like a heavy yoke, and everyone's trying to avoid the burden by dumping it on someone else. Is that any way to live? Performing under duress and out of guilt?

After the witch with a Capital B and I seperated (Stake President commanded it), she moved her boyfriend in. For the first time in my life I was alone and suffering. I had gone from my parents to a mission to my parents to marriage. We had moved 1,200 miles to Arizona (Gilbert) and other than Church Members I knew no one.

During my time of needing a friend (Gilbert, Arizona had 7,500 people and was 85% Mormon) the members of the Ward shunned me. If I saw them at the Super Market they would literally turn their backs to me. If I spoke to them, they acted like they did not hear me.

The witch with the Capital B had to move to Arizona to be in sunshine. Actually it was to be with her boyfriend whom she had started having an affair with while he was a Missionary for the Cult.

Yes - the shunning is real, if you do not tow the correct image and pretend God blesses you with a super happy home life then you are a SINNER and must be shunned. What Would Jesus Do does not apply when you are in the Cult.

I was in so much pain. My eternal family was destroyed and guess what - the shunning was nothing compared to the future torture church leaders would extract for having gotten a divorce. There is no forgiveness with the Cult. Image is important.



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