Posted by:
justrob
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Date: February 04, 2013 11:15AM
This weekend I was trapped in a cabin with MIL, and all of her descendants. They were celebrating kid #6's mission call to Tulsa OK.
At one point, we did an activity where we were given a 3x5 card & were supposed to write down our favorite scripture, and then just something that might be helpful to #6 on his mission.
I normally would have left them alone, but they were actively attempting to force a known atheist to write schpiritual things.
So I put Jacob2 & D&C132 --lessons of David & Solomon
Maybe it was all the taxidermied animals lining the walls, or my own feeling of being trapped there for 3 days with them, but on the back of the 3x5 card I wrote something like this:
"I know the church to be false. I've discovered a great truth, but infuriatingly I am not allowed to share it with anyone. My frustration is exacerbated by the fact that mormons share their beliefs constantly, but refuse to have a discussion about mine. Any attempts to open anyone's eyes is met with hostility. It's like you are a wild animal, caught in a poachers trap. Every time I reach to release the trap, you snarl and bite. It's so sad that none of you will let me help you see the church for what it is: a cult."
If #6 is like me, he probably wont ever read those 3x5 cards. But if he does, there will either be fallout or an awakening.
P.S. I did discover a new skill though: crowd sourcing my anti-mormonism. So I brought up the topic of City Creek Mall, and just let them talk about it. One SIL discovered from her TBM siblings that CCM was a church project, and that the church didn't report on its finances fully. She said, "I kind of have a problem with that. Why on earth is our church making a mall at all?"
It was great to have my point made for me, and to have it actually have an impact because it wasn't voiced by the anti-mormon, but by her TBM relatives.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/04/2013 11:16AM by justrob.