Posted by:
readthissomewhere
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Date: November 15, 2010 01:52PM
Hi all, been lurking on this site for quite some time now. I am a nevermo, although I have a number of people very close to me who are in the cult, and grew up in a town in in the West that overflowed with Mormons. The negative effect that church involvement has on people I care about, as well as the perverted understanding of God (not that my own understanding is objectively correct) dismay me continually. That is why I visit this site regularly, to read the words of others who "get it," as just about everyone I know either *is* a Mormon, or thinks that the Mormon church is just another harmless Protestant sect whose members are productive, wholesome people.
One of the things that never fails to amaze me is the degree of micromanagement that members accept, especially when the stakes (to them) are so high. It seems a despicable thing to me, to teach that the church has the authority to withhold God's love and approval if you don't follow all their pissy little rules. What movies to watch, how much money to contribute to the church, what drinks to enjoy, in what capacity to volunteer (or whether to at all), whom to marry, which service to show up for, what music is ok to play during worship, what intimate activities to engage in in the privacy of your own bed, on and on and on. It blows my mind. Was it hard for you ex-mos to not respond to some of that crap with, "I'm a big girl and I can figure out if this damages my relationship with God or not?"
It seems to obvious to me that our worthiness is between us and God, and the fact that the Mo-church has managed to pass off this giant fraud and convince so many that they hold the keys to the kingdom, and that members can't access God and all his mercy if they don't jump through endless, meaningless hoops makes me so sad.