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Date: January 04, 2019 11:29AM
A friend married too soon, divorced; married a divorced woman with 3 children of her own, now they have 6. she is pregnant. He is 26.
He started his own business, as a desperate attempt to get out from under the crushing financial burden that an indefinite life of poverty would bring. The business is struggling as he has no credit, assets or time.
He came to me for a loan.
I turned him down seeing the inevitable: any money that he gets will have to go to feed kids, pay bills and get out of debt, and pay back tithing, before it does any good to the business.
As he left my office, I could not help but see so many Mormons in the same predicament. Way over their heads, too young, under-educated, closed-minded, out of touch, broke…
...broken.
My best friend, my brother, countless friends and acquaintances, burdened to the point that only the church can help make sense of the madness that they have gotten themselves into.
The church manufactures problems so people will drown in them, and then offers sappy platitudes, corner-store wisdom and superficial social support in order to keep them alive.
What business does a 23 year old that makes 25K a year have having a 300k house and 5 kids? What man with 6 children and a wife falling apart at home decides that if he spends 30 hours a week working for his church, that his family will be better off, and when he does get two free hours a week, decides to spend those in the temple praying for his family.
How can a woman be better off in a religion that treats her as a sack of dismissed feelings that is predestined to be a servant to her husband? She will begin to compare her worth to what she sees in others, and find the constant reinforcement that she is less will mutate her into someone she’d never recognize from a distance. How can she be of any worth to when her grandmother was treated as cattle, and everyone pretends she wasn't?
How can a gay person feel like that the satisfaction found in obedience will replace the joy of having lived a full life? how can they have self-respect knowing their kids will be treated as sinners before they even become accountable?
How can a person of color ever truly feel their potential, self-worth and cultural pride when the silenced whispers of racist doctrine echo down the hallway?
How can a black man, with any self-respect explain the curse of Cain to his son?
How can you look yourself in the mirror and know that your are OK being in a racist, murderous, lying, conniving, predatory, bigoted organization and tell yourself that is it your tribe and as long as you get to object to some details on a web forum, that you are OK staying? Why open that wound so only the church can treat it for you?
How can you be better off with less time, money, self-worth and education? You can’t. You become the kind of mess that the church is more than happy to sell to others as happy.
Mormons are often crippled by the very religion they claim as a miracle cure. They rejoice that their crushing burdens are relived 3 hours a week by being able to sit down and listen to emotional junk.
Starved, they give their bread to the church to feel relief and gratitude that a few crumbs fell off the table.
The church is a burden of the poor, the uneducated, women, time, money, government, taxes, our minds, science, history, honesty, freedom, equality and truth.
I denounce it.
Mormons don’t realize that most of the burdens in their life are direct or indirect results of their involvement in the church.
You don’t ever have enough money?
Feeling inferior because of your race or because you are a woman? don't worry, Eve got a few more lines in a movie.
Not enough time with your family?
Feeling bombarded with the threat of “them” (non-members, the world, coffee drinkers!)?
Are you depressed about keeping up with the Jones'?
You are confused that no matter how much you try, the promised blessings never come as promised?
Are you tired of living in the past or the future?
Are you crushed by your inability to have kids or find a “worthy” spouse?
Are your weekends too short?
Tired of looking the other way on facts, science and history?
Guess what, these burdens are placed on you by the church. They dissolve immediately upon exiting it.
Life has it own, real, magic, you do not need to walk around life with a 200 lb backpack filled with magical thinking in order to soften it and make it bland enough to swallow.
I promise you, all of the fears of leaving are false indoctrination.
I challenge you, if you have not already done so, to drop those crutches, bandages, razor blades, Xanax pills, mental hoops, and psychological poison and join us in the free world.
It is the greatest joy you can experience as a human, and, it happens to be 100% real.
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 01/04/2019 01:40PM by sb.