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txrancher
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Date: August 26, 2017 04:21AM
Son is at the MTC. I share this because I need to...and maybe it's useful to someone else. I don't know if I said the right things. I hope so.
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Xxxxxxx,
Before you go....there is something I want to say.
I want to support you. I want for you to be happy. And I will support you if this is what you want.
But I need to say that I wish you weren't going. Yes, there is some good that can come from a mission...I learned another language and, like you working this past summer selling products door-to-door in Xxxxxx, I learned to communicate more effectively with people. Those skills have helped me in my life and maybe, MAYBE you'll learn some additional skills and develop more confidence that will help you in life.
Those can be good things.
But I'm conflicted. Because I really believe that you are going out to a place where you are going to spend every day trying to convince people that they need to be Mormon. My belief--no, my certainty--is that this is a false religion. Made up. And you are going to give two years of your life to promote it. You could be doing so many other things.
I'm conflicted because I want to support you. But I wouldn't be a good father if I didn't tell you what I think and what I know. This church is all about control and making you do what it wants. Pay them 10% of your money, wear their underwear, attend church for at least three hours every week (or they ask you "is there a problem?"), and follow their rules. Things like you can't drink coffee (really?? is that so bad?? Yes, apparently that makes you a bad person. Whatever.)
You have the pressure of your mother, who loves you. But you also have the pressure of that a**hole [step father]. I get it, I understand. And you have the whole pressure of the Mormon corporation and their robot members in Utah telling you how great it is to serve a mission. If they really love you and want you to be happy, it shouldn't depend on you serving a mission. But I think you know how they would react if you didn't...and I'm sorry. It's a lot of pressure.
I can't believe in a church started by Joseph Smith who married two fourteen-year old girls. And didn't tell his wife Emma. Told the girls that an angel with a flaming sword would destroy them and their families if they didn't agree to marry him. He married other men's wives...and again didn't tell Emma. He looked into a hat at a stone to create the Book of Mormon, not at some golden plates. Doesn't that all sound creepy and wrong?
All of these things the church has admitted only in the last few years. And only because they couldn't hide it anymore.
I won't talk this way again if you decide to continue with going on a mission. But before you go, I need to tell you what I know and how I feel.
I haven't just stopped going to church. I made them remove my name from their records. It is a scam and I won't be a part of it anymore.
You are about to go out and tell other people that their churches and religions are wrong. But when you tell a Mormon they are wrong and provide evidence, they stop wanting to talk with you. Why is that? Because it is a cult. Because they are conditioned to NOT listen to anything else. And because they can't accept the truth or even discuss something that doesn't support their beliefs.
I love you and don't want you to spend the next two years promoting a cult that doesn't care about you unless you are paying tithing and believe their lies. But if this is your choice I won't say anymore and continue to love you. I promise.
Dad
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/26/2017 04:22AM by txrancher.