Posted by:
archaicoctober
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Date: November 08, 2010 08:34PM
My first falling away after high school was purely a social "this stuff blows" type of deconversion.
I fell victim to the date-to-reactivate and got active again, put in my mission papers, got the call and then the doubting dominoes started:
1-The temple experience.
2-Some non-member friends bringing up BoM archeology.
3-Getting to the MTC, only to find that this whole thing was set up identical to a business plan (numbers, numbers, numbers).
THE FINAL STRAW:
I grew increasingly suspicious that this was a snake-oil sales scheme about 6 weeks in. Then I realized who my mission prez was and it all made sense:
http://www.drinklifein.com/leadership_team.htmlIt explained everything. He was the ultimate snake oil salesman. And given 3/4 of the missionaries in my mission were raised around this type of shit (Xango, Noni) they took it to be some kind of divine-providence thing. The guy was a numbers master, and one hell of an asshole. Although unconventional, this is what did it for me.