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midwestanon
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Date: May 18, 2018 09:41PM
This is the second article I’ve read from Dan where he talks about how ex Mormons no longer use their Sundays for worship and church services and purportedly spend their Sundays instead doing personally fulfilling activities, but yet also seem to spend their Sundays comparing notes on what they are doing that day. Once again, the irony of Him spending his day commenting on the fact that we are supposedly not enjoying our Sundays but instead vacuously talking about what we should be doing on Sundays escapes him.
I don’t think this man is capable of talking about Exmormons, or anything for that matter, without sounding vainglorious, elitist, and highly self satisfied. His comments are peppered with some nonsense like ‘when I was a Bishop’, ‘Hardly a week past when someone didn’t invite me into their home for dinner’, and of course, the whole thing is rounded off by reminding everyone that he is so important that he is riding his article from half a world away. We get it Dan you think you’re the hottest shit around.
His world is so small he must think the entire ex Mormon community consists of those who write on this message board and whatever other message board he’s referring to, I don’t know maybe the Reddit ex Mormon board. What he doesn’t seem to grasp is there are hundreds of thousands if not millions of exmormons whose lives werent touchded by Mormonism the same ways ours were, Or there were just those who joined for a couple months and then left, were never active, or who found their way out of the church without the help of these message boards, and don’t really have a sense of exmormon communities or apologetics or anything like that. They’re just normal people who live normal lives and have normal communities, maybe their faith-based, maybe not.
I suppose he thinks the people he sees here is an accurate sampling of exmormons. What he doesn’t realize is we are the people who had such serious problems with Mormonism that we sought the help of others to recover. At least, that’s what I did. I think for a lot of people, maybe most, Mormonism was just a blip on the radar and they require no outside help, or they just sought it through other means.
This idea he seems to have an is head of Mormons being this way, spending all their time ragging on ignorant Mormons, whether true or not, is a narrow lense and he doesn’t seem to get that/
You know what I do on Sundays? Not a damn thing. That, or I pick up extra work. And it is 1000 times better than going to church, and it always has been, even when I somehow figured out a way to get out of going to church when I was a teenager. Not going was always better than going.
My guess is I know more people who in their heart of hearts view going to Mormon church as a chore, As opposed to something they enthusiastically want to do .
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/18/2018 09:45PM by midwestanon.