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Date: December 16, 2010 02:36PM
My husband is jack Mormon. He doesn't go to church since I stopped going (but keeps saying he should go back). He listens to me about certain things like the mall and Prop 8 and agrees with me that they're wrong. I think at heart he is TBM though because no matter what, he says "I know that what that prophet did is wrong but I know the church/BoM is true…" kind of the old "the church is perfect but men are not" thing.
Anyway, a few years ago I started to refuse for us to pay tithing. He went along with it stubbornly. I pointed out to him yesterday that since we stopped paying tithing, we now have savings, our debt is almost paid off, we've been able to buy a few nice things and even move into a nicer apartment. Then I pointed out two times when we were scraping by and we got unexpected money.
He looked thoughtful. "Yes…" he said, "I now have an anti-tithing testimony."
Win.