Posted by:
ificouldhietokolob
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Date: September 10, 2018 10:46AM
I left in 1981. I didn't resign, didn't even know that was an option (and according to later lawsuits against the church, it probably wasn't) then. I just walked away. Cut off all contact. I moved, and they at the time didn't chase me down.
Until a few years ago, I thought I was still "officially" a member. After the above-mentioned lawsuits, I considered officially resigning. Just to make a point, if nothing else.
Then I found out that, unbeknownst to me, I'd been ex'd. In absentia. With no notice (they didn't know where I was). The ex-ing apparently took place in my old "home" ward where I'd grown up, even though I hadn't lived in that area for many years. It came about because I had run into an "old friend" I had grown up with in the church, and had expounded at length on what an idiotic cult the church was. This apparently got reported back, and they sent me into outer darkness...in their paperwork, anyway. I found out from a relative, who had done some family history work they thought I'd like to see, and it included MY record, which listed the ex-ing.
My reaction was..."whatever." I wasn't being harassed or chased, and my whole family knew my feelings about the cult, so it didn't really matter to me. Although I was a bit miffed at being ex'd and not being informed. I actually would have enjoyed going to my "court of love" and letting them have it. Oh, well.
Do what works for you. In hindsight, I would have liked to officially resign. Failing that, I would have liked to "testify" at my "court." But either way, I was officially out a long time ago, and put the cult out of my life. That's satisfying and freeing no matter how it happened.