Hardly. I felt like scum in the church because I wasn’t born and raised in it. However, I’m “chosen” in the sense that I realized the scam and left.

That's what they taught me, and I figured they wouldn't teach such a laughable thing if it weren't true.

Ah yes, the Big Lie. An old Orwellian technique.

Don't make me go all godwin on you !

You rat!

As with so much else in Mormonism, I believed I was called to be one of the Last Days warriors but I felt like hell because I knew I wasn't worthy.



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Absolutely. "To be born British is to be a winner in the lottery of life." Oh wait. That's not what you meant? Lol.

My great great grandfather was an early founder. One of the first in the valley.

I learned to ride my bike at a wonderful church parking lot. Steep. Big hill to coast down.

I never felt special. Never mentioned my lineage.

Ultimately, while riding my bike up and down Walker Lane, and around Cottonwood Mall, I realized the sanctimonious lizards judging us all were impotent.

I left in 1983.

Actually I never gave it much thought.
I have always believed that when you were here you were here qne when you are gone you are gone

What ----- you saying I am not???

I was definitely one of the chosen few (based on World %) that got scammed by the Mormon church!

Mormons are special. Short bus special.

but never felt lucky about it
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Back in the day, nobody born already tanned could ever feel special in the mormon church.

Anyone a little more 'modern' heard anything different on this issue?

Did calling a minority Apostle perk everyone of color up a bit?

They are currently patting themselves on the back for so graciously offering blacks the priesthood in 1978, decades before BLM was even a thing.

As for the less white and delightsome, life in the CK is wonderful even for the landscapers.

to this board. My dad wasn't very active and my mom was not very social. We weren't accepted well in the ward. I was going to save the family and be perfect. I had 3 of 6 siblings quit going in their teens. We were treated like second-class citizens.

I had a lot of issues also with the idea that mormons were better than others. I didn't know many nonmormons growing up, but I did have a lot of nonmormon friends later on when I started working where a lot of nonmormons worked. I didn't understand that idea of being better than.

So I come to this board and find out that my family is mormon royalty because of who my ancestors are. Someone posted my surname was a very well known mormon name in a thread right after I first started reading here. I was in shock.

There is a list of mormon royalty characteristics somewhere on this board. My older sister laughed and laughed when she read it. We fit into the lowest group.

I'm sure the ward we attended growing would find it very hard to believe that we were chosen.

Not as it concerned anything Mormon.

Yes, but I wanted everyone to be one.

I was chosen to hoist my 20-lb chihuahua up on the bed when he’d rather sleep on my bed than his. My patriarchal blessing said it’s ‘cause I was such a dog lover in the pre-existence.

How could I not feel chosen?

1. Of all of Elohim’s worlds without number, I was born in the world where God’s only begotten son was born and did the atoning sacrifice.

2. I was born into an active LDS family.

3. I was born in the latter days to help prepare the world for Christ’s triumphant return.

4. I was born the proper race and gender to be a leader in the Lord’s kingdom on earth.

With all that going for me, if I ever fell away, it would certainly be outer darkness for me.

I truly thought I was a Saturday's Warrior. I loved that play and music. I bought into it hook, line and sinker.

I was very put out when I realised that's what they were telling the next batch of mormon youth, I thought I was part of the chosen generation.

I continued to feel 'chosen' until I left the church and discovered it was simply cult indoctrination and cult thinking.

I'll choose a few
Not sure about you

I never believed it