Posted by:
CA girl
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Date: April 26, 2013 05:41PM
1) We used to be Mormons. We sat in your meetings where friends were "assigned" to inactives. We heard how you talked about inactives. We listened to you talk about how sorry you felt for the children of inactives and the implication they were inferior parents. We know you assigned the YW to bring cookies because you thought inactives needed "help" and "service." We already read your Book of Mormon. Possibly more times than you did. We know how to pray. We know what you mean by "feel the spirit." Many of us really believed and cared more about those beliefs than any of you, which is how we studied our way out. We know some Mormons can be extremely offensive if we mistakenly take them seriously. We realize you aren't really "just dropping by." We don't really think you need our help so the missionaries can practice giving discussions or help translating their testimonies for an investigator. We are on to all your little stunts because we heard you planning to use them on others for ourselves.
2) There are more of us than there are of you. Two out of three Mormons leave active church participation. Some resign, some disappear, some just want to be left alone. The large majority didn't leave because they were offended but offended or not, they don't see any value in hanging around with Mormons. We talk amongst ourselves and can catch you in lies. We laugh about your fake offers of friendship. We like each others' company far more than we ever liked yours. The whole world opened up to us when we left and we discovered, for the most part, that non-LDS and former Mormons are much nicer and have higher morals than active Mormons. Mormons can't imagine that people don't want to hang out with them and don't look up to them. We don't feel privileged to have your attention. A lot of times we find it boring or irritating and the ideas you discuss small and uneducated. We also talk about how there are many nice Mormons and how we wish they'd come to their senses and hang out with a better group of people (i.e. non-Morons.) We know that non-LDS don't look up to Mormons like we were taught they do in church because when we left Mormonism, all our non-LDS friends congratulated us on figuring it out. Then they tell us what they really have always thought about Mormons, behind their polite facades. But what you should remember most of all is that we compare notes and we can see through you. Don't forget that.