Posted by:
Amyjo
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Date: April 12, 2019 07:08AM
mahana Wrote:
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> My b-day is in April and so I've always felt a
> connection with Easter. To me it has meant more
> along the lines of spring, growth, & new
> beginnings. Always loved baby animals, spring
> flowers, bunnies, chicks, & egg hunts. :D
You sound like a Spring baby. :)
>
> My mom used to make us a scavenger hunt with
> several clues to locate our Easter basket. The
> older we got the harder the clues were & we always
> had a blast no matter our age! Us older kids would
> hide eggs for the younger ones over & over again.
> We'd get tired of it but watching their excitement
> made it all worth it. We'd hide them so many times
> we'd forget where they all were. We lost an egg or
> two only to find it years later moving furniture
> or something.. lol
Your mom knew how to make a fun event educational and challenging too for her children. Something for the whole family no matter what age. :)
>
> Easter has been a reflective time since I've left
> the church. It was right before Easter when I had
> my aha moment that started me on my journey out.
When I left the Mormon church in my 30's was on an Easter Sunday. I knew it was a permanent departure at the time and it was for a few years. I only returned for a brief stint after my parents deaths in 2000, out of nostalgia for my childhood and a longing for my family lost. But yeah, it was on Easter Sunday, 1994, that I walked away knowing it was a definite move onward and upward from the hellhole of Mormonism that wasn't what it claimed to be.
As I handed my tithing payment that day over to the ward clerk for what would be the last time, he was a seedy guy whose wife was addicted to narcotics. He worked as an accountant in NYC, so TSCC trusted him with taking tithes. While his SAH wife would stay stoned all day when he went to work, instead of taking care of their young children. The Mormons defended them when Child Protective Services took the children out of the home because her own mother had turned her into CPS for neglect and abuse of her children. Not the Mormons.
She was a sorry excuse for a mom I know because she watched my children for a time. She came highly recommended by the people from church as a wonderful wife and mom. Every single time my children went to their house they would come home injured or something bad happen. I finally stopped taking them because they weren't safe there. That was before CPS stepped in taking her children out of the home. Still, the Mormons defended them while her own Catholic parents knew of her daughter's addiction and abuse of her own children.
The husband was a very sleazy, seedy guy as well. On that last Easter Sunday when handing over my tithing, I knew instantly it was not going to tithing central. I watched as he felt the envelope and could tell I had put cash inside it instead of a check. I could see by the glint in his eye he was going to steal that money.
Yet I knew I was leaving there and wasn't coming back. Not because of him, but because my faith in that religion was broken.
Sure enough, at year's end, there was no receipt from TSCC showing what I had paid for that year, nothing to indicate I had given it any money including the $160 I had given in tithing on that last Easter Sunday I was there. That man was a heathen.
Since then, TSCC has eliminated "middle men" from receiving tithing monies at church. Now they can only be given to a bishop or bishopric. Not to a ward clerk. He was a ward clerk. I wonder if it was because of him that the rules were changed? I sure hope so. He belonged behind bars.
Finally after my children and I relocated to another part of New York, one of my children who was in middle school by then, broke down after we'd moved and told me that their children would molest my child at knife point while their mother was watching my children. This had occurred some years earlier. The reason my child hadn't told me before was they had threatened with a knife if that happened something worse would happen.
I was so livid I was ready to kill at that moment. I did call the police where they lived. But because it had happened years earlier there wasn't anything they could do because of statutory laws. Add that as soon as that effing family got their children back from CPS, they fled (with the Mormons help,) to New Jersey to escape the attention of New York Child Protective Services.
Mormonism sucks. They were another reason we left and didn't look back.