Posted by:
releve
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Date: July 02, 2013 02:59PM
I have listened to the John Dehlin podcast about why Mormons leave. The internet and access to information that was previously unavailable seems to be the catalyst for most people to decide to leave TSCC. People now find disturbing information and they Bolt.
I don't think that knowledge of troubling history, or doctrine was a fundamental reason for people to leave in the past.
Most run of the mill members didn't have access to that information. You had to activily seek out (by leaving your home and physically searching at a book store or library) what was called anti mormon materials. Good Mormons didn't do that.
Most members became inactive, by just getting tired or starting to work on Sunday, or buying a boat, or making new friends. In other words becoming inactive was more of a Drift.
Love bombing worked on people who had drifted. It brought the idea of going to church back in to a persons consciousness and that combined with a double dose of guilt brought some people back at least for a while.
People who bolted, because they found information are not going to be brought back by love bombing. Love bombing will not change facts. A lie, is a lie, is a lie. If every person who has Bolted from TSCC shares just one fact with the people who are sent to love them back into full fellowship, the reactivation attempt could backfire,,,big time.
I realise that some of the people on this board have been out for a long time and that they did leave because of information, but how did you find that information and do you think that you were typical?