Posted by:
elderolddog
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Date: August 03, 2020 11:56PM
I wonder if she's been checking us out, or is already registered?
The person about whom I am wondering was a mormon, became an atheist, then returned to the fold for a nonce, but has now made a more calm and reasoned exit from the church.
She's a writer, and so she was obviously compelled to offer up some documentation regarding the process, and so in late June she divulged to her buddies at Religious News Services some insights into what it is to be a budding exmormon.
https://religionnews.com/2020/06/30/the-five-doctrines-of-ex-mormonism/...I didn't know exmormons had doctrines, although why not? Perhaps I was saved from learning of these doctrines by my inability to take anything (other than Saucie) seriously? (Oh, yeah, and writing... and golf...)
For those wanting to avoid clicking the link, here are the five doctrines followed by sincere former members of la iglesia mormona (mamona! hahahaha!) I guess the rest of us are just poseurs?
1. You will be healed by trying every substance forbidden by the Word of Wisdom.
2. Your sex life will improve and you will feel better about your body.
3. Joseph Smith was a pedophile/Brigham Young was a racist.
4. You need to read the following white male authors:
Reza Aslan, Yuval Harari, Jonathan Haidt, Daniel Kahneman, Jared Diamond, Bart Ehrman, Richard Dawkins, etc.)
5. Science is the way to all truth.
Apparently I, and some of you whom I've grown to appreciate and respect, are not Real Deal Exmos! I'm appalled!
Oh, I think I get where she's coming from: The exmo community at large has not yet offered her the adulation she knows she deserves for having taken her daring leap into Real Life.
Or am I wrong and she nailed it? Are we a tiny minority and the majority of exmos do as she claims? Obviously my sampling comes from 11 years online, here and at postmormon(dot)org... From whence came her sample?