Posted by:
resipsaloquitur
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Date: November 24, 2010 09:16PM
When I was a TBM, I often felt like I got the shaft by being born into the only true church. I thought of all the countless billions of people who got to live normal, happy lives free from guilt and shame for doing all the things I wanted to be doing. I was told over and over in church what a blessing it was to be born into the church, how elect and valiant I must have been in the premortal existence to be given this opportunity. I never once felt like it was a blessing, but felt at all times that the responsibility was a curse. Others of God's children could be free to reject the gospel and still possibly inherit eternal life, but not me. How unfair is that? Why couldn't I have been born a non-member, live a happy life, then accept the Gosepel in the spirit world to get my get out of hell free card?
Even when I thought it was all true, I despised it...with every fiber of my being