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Date: November 30, 2018 06:24PM
https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comments/a1wlkx/a_couple_days_ago_i_wrote_up_the_actual_answers/TLDR at the bottom or on the link above.
So I posted this on reddit but I figured I could explain it here in more detail. Basically the post is a seminary study guide with my "anti-mormon" answers. I'm too lazy to type everything but one of the questions was something like:
Q--What did you learn about the prophets?
A--(what I wrote) They obviously don't know what they're doing, judging by how often god changes his mind.
My seminary teacher is a middle aged man but he also tries to keep up with the kids. On Wednesday, we had this assignment to "study" for the test (which, it's not much of a test. I BS my way through it every time.) and I wasn't planning on doing it at first. However, about 5 minutes in, he noticed I wasn't doing anything and had to walk me through it as if I was retarded. I figured I might as well act as if I'm doing something and I had the greatest idea. It was probably the most I've worked in seminary ever.
So I wrote down the most petty answers I could think of and it wasn't hard considering how much I hate this kind of thing. About halfway through, a girl sitting next to me asked for a few answers, and I just smiled at her and said I wasn't there yet (not really important, but I feel like she knew what I was doing) After class ended, I waited for most of the students to leave and put the paper on one of the desks in the back.
Fast forward to today, I went to class as usual and wasn't really paying attention until my teacher started talking about my paper. I'm going to paraphrase here, but he basically said something along the lines of
"Someone left a hate letter in this room on the review. I thought it was just someone's study guide, but it turns out there were really hurtful things written. I'm assuming it was from this class, so if this is you, you know who you are. I'm really worried for whoever wrote this and I just want you to know I'm free to talk anytime."
Honestly, It wasn't anything crazy, but I didn't think he would actually bring it up in class. He probably had good intentions but I just couldn't take it anymore. After he was done talking and he told us to talk to our "partners," (nobody was sitting by me and I was the closest seat to the door) I walked out of the seminary building and drove home. He 100% knows it's me by now and because of that I'm not going back.
The only reason I went to seminary after I stopped believing (which was about a year ago) was because of my parents. I have decided I'm going to tell them I'm an atheist today because I'm sick of pretending. I'm also bi, and the policies against gay people was a huge weight on my shelf in the first place. I've told a couple of my friends and this event was what kind of pushed me over. I definitely don't want to go back and I feel like the only way they'll understand is if I tell the truth.
TLDR: A couple days ago, I wrote up the actual answers to this supposed study guide and left it out for my seminary teacher to see. Today he told the entire class someone had written a "hate letter" and asked whoever wrote it to come and talk to him because he was "worried."