Doing things that hurt their children (encouraging girls getting pregnant at early age with no education and forcing boys -- even those that aren't too bright -- to go to college to get a job that pays for a load of kids and a stay-at-home mom).
Reading these boards is damn depressing. My family for the most part doesn't say a word to me about the church. Occasionally my mom will ask if I've thought about returning to church and asks me to think about it and we move on. I can live with that. My siblings who remain active are respectful enough to let me make my own decisions in life and we continue to have close relationships. Apparently I'm lucky to not have to deal with a constant stream of assholes questioning my personal choices.
I find their unwillingness to investigate their history utilizing all resources available HIGHLY disturbing. The inability and unwillingness to analyze the things they believe in. It's like they are from outer space to me now. Like there is a mental disconnect and inability to reason things out and call into question blind obedience to a prophet based on a story that is not grounded in any facts. And how anyone in their right mind would believe a treasure hunter happened to find plates that reveal that Jesus visited America, and coincidentally had visions before that of the father and son then an angel who took the plates up to heaven? So many impossible things to believe yet they do. Along that same vain, believing Joseph screwed multiple women because God required it. Otherwise if course he would NEVER have wanted to do such a thing to his dear dear Emma. But he would have been smote with a sword by God. And yet current prophets aren't killed by God for having one wife. Romney is smarter than I am yet he can believe this stuff. These things I find incredibly upsetting now.
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I am not annoyed by Mormons in the least. It is the church hierarchy, the MEN at the top, getting paid to pull the wool over the eyes of the people who support them both spiritually and financially, for whom I have no respect. There ought to be a law.
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The fact that one old geezer HP, who was Dad's cattle buyer and friend, has ,ever since Dad passed away in 2000, taken it upon himself to call every time something is going on in the ward or stake and invite me and my Catholic wife to it. Every time general conference is near, he calls to remind me of it and to make sure I know that the priesthood session is on Saturday night. I don't not know if he's been informed of my resignation yet, or if he will be at all. If he calls I may take the call or ignore it. Or I may inform him that I no longer hold the priesthood, etc., etc. Or I may be getting shunned. I don't give a f*** one way or another. This week will tell the tale.
Willingness to accept things Like the truth is not always useful. If truth is preeminent in the gospel, what it stands for, what the missionaries teach, and what supposedly sets Mormons apart from any other religion, why fear the truth in whatever form it comes?
Obedience without question, aka We do not question God or his prophets. Good Gawd, when you convert, didn't it take a brain and questioning to decide about the church in the first place? Isn't your brain the greatest gift of life? Or is baptism synonymous with being lobotomized?
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The idea that they as home teachers, visiting teachers or missionaries have the nerve to walk up to my back door at any time of the day or evening and expect to be welcomed into my home. This really makes me furious!
Ugh, my dad's side of the family goes all the way back to the original pioneers who came to Utah. According to them, I didn't just leave Mormonism, I left my lineage, heritage, birthright, and even family.
Never thought I'd feel like an orphan at this age.
liminal state Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ugh, my dad's side of the family goes all the way > back to the original pioneers who came to Utah. > According to them, I didn't just leave Mormonism, > I left my lineage, heritage, birthright, and even > family. > > Never thought I'd feel like an orphan at this age.
Same here! Except its my father and mother's side. Freakishly enough my parents are distantly related.
I mean, I would have to be as stupid as they are to believe the LDS BS that they believe and insist that I believe, too. I have already been through that. I already burned up way too much of my life and my brain cells escaping MORmON indoctrination that was jammed down my throat as a vulnerable impressionable youth. That BS way is OVER for me. Now I am the one who is going to do some jamming as far as MORmONISM is concerned.
My cousin is the perfect example. He treats his elders with complete disdain. He is an RM, got married in the temple, and started making little people.
I guess somewhere back he was told that he would be a leader among all the less fortunate, less educated, and less faithful. He must have decided that this describes all of his extended family. I have had many people remark to me on their own, without knowing the others made the comment, that he's an arrogant little pr*ck.
I guess the holier than thou attitude some Mormons possess. That's a major turn-ff.
How when you are a member, they can't stop complaining about how much the garments suck, but as soon as you leave the church, the very same Mormons can't shut up about how awesome and full of blessings the stupid things are. Well, that is just one thing.