Define this in whatever terms you choose, ie when you discovered you no longer believed, quit attending church...

I finally quit going to church in December of 2009, so this December will be my 3rd anniversary.

...left BYU, Provo, Utah and the Church for good that night and never looked back. Hard to believe it's been almost 16 years.

But August 23rd has a much more significant...thingy...dealy to....it.

April 2000. Happy anniversary to me!

August 16, 2010

2008
The church started shaking the pom-poms for CA Prop 8.
After 30 years, on that day I decided I couldn't be a part of this church anymore.

that I won't be going at all. I felt bad because I had "failed" but as the many meetings didn't give me anything "profound" or spiritual, and I felt I didn't fit the mold, I decided not to go anymore.

Wasn't harassed that bad.

It took almost 20 years before I resigned officially, though. Don't know why I waited so long, it felt wonderful when it finally was done and over.

was the day of my "lightbulb" moment, the day I stopped being mormon in my mind. I never went to my own ward again, but I did go twice more before that year's end to honor commitments to family members.

I sent in my resignation letter March 4, 2010.

January 2009. I had announced to DW and to bishop in Oct 2008 that I was resigning.

Hmm...I never thought about it. It will be about four years now, though.

October 2002 for me, as that's when I officially resigned.

Thanksgiving day 2011

I quit going to church in 1976 but didn't discover the church was a crock until 2003 when I found RFM.

Second Sunday in January 2010.

Stopped going to church in April 2005, but didn't resign until March last year.

May 7, 2006.

My girlfriend (who is now my wife) and I hadn't been to church for a few weeks and had decided that we weren't going back. By the time our 1:00 meeting rolled around, though, she started feeling guilty and decided to go. I went along.

We arrived late to sacrament meeting and slipped in the back. I knew instantly, though, that something was different; I had "moved on" psychologically. Neither of us could stand it for very long, so we left before the meeting was over.

I handed my resignation letter the the bishop a few weeks later and, except for a couple of funerals, I haven't been back. Haven't missed it for a moment.

June, 1961, quit attending. Realized mormon god was absurd.

June, 1979, got myself excommunicated by asking to have my name removed.

Advent of my activity on the Internet: learned all the bad stuff!!

Never got into the priesthood at all. Quit going to any church activities after Jr. High School (1970, when they would not let me play basketball with the ward team unless i attended Sunday meetings). And officially resigned in 1996.

I don't remember the exact dates, but I sent in my resignation a little over 2 years ago. I quit going to church about 8 years ago.

Totally inactive since 1959, resigned in 1994.

November 23, 1991. Yes, I did remember to celebrate my 20 years free last fall!

I was 35 years old when I left. In 15 more years I can celebrate another red letter date being a Exmo longer than a Mo.

July something (it was a Sunday) 2003. I didn't resign until a few years ago.

Dear People,

I've been mormon free now for over 11 years. I do not believe Joseph Smith was a prophet. I do not believe he had golden plates with any type of writing on them. If he had a vision, I'm betting it was of young nubile girls. I do not sustain any of the church leadership, nor do they get any of my money.

--dk

Summer 2008, the same time that The Dark Knight was in theaters (yes, there is a connection, because the preview for Watchman ran at showings of The Dark Knight, and the Smashing Pumpkins song used in that preview sort of became my theme song. It's still in my PostMo Board signature:

And now the kingdom comes
Crashing down undone
And I am a master of a nothing place
Of recoil and grace
. . . . . . . . . .
There’s no more need to pretend
Cause now I can begin again

but then came my wasted year at Ricks Big Churchy High School. I blew off Mormonism after that, so probably the summer of 1980.

Resigning from TSCC as well as another church I had been attending was my gift to myself. Best gift ever!

April 1986 is when I walked away for good. Officially resigned last year. received conformation letter October 4th 2011.

October General Conference is my anniversary. Had been mulling it all over for a few months and had tried to convince myself the church was still 'true'. I didn't want it to not be.

It was whilst attending conference in the London Hyde Park chapel, in October 2004, that I realised I just couldn't do it anymore.

It was May 2001. What a glorious time in my journey..

I quit going to church in October 2011 and plan on resigning soon...

June of 2000. Just about 12 years strong!

I have no idea. I think I left in the fall of 2008, but didn't really stop believing until shortly after my son was born. I was on the fence, since about 2006 though.

There was a precise date/time, it is a vivid memory forged in a psychological crisis.
I wish I had captured the exact date in a journal. It was July or August.
I had never doubted the church. I had accumulated the proverbial weights-on-a-shelf of things-that-make-you-go-hmmm paradoxes, but I had never doubted there was an answer to everything. I was a full-on believer...and it snapped in one second.

One second.

I went from being a complete believer to knowing/realizing it cannot be true at a precise moment, as my "testimony" collapsed under its own weight during an intense psychological crisis. It was entirely internal problems in the gospel and in my mind that did it. I had never read anti-mormon arguments online or anywhere else. To this day, the only anti-Mormon lit I need are its own scriptures.



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before 1996. I realized I no longer believed sometime in 2004 or 2005. I found RfM in 2005. I resigned--sending in my letter on January 17 (I believe) 2011. I got my official visit from the bishop on February 1, 2011 (a very significant anniversary).