GIMR wrote:Why is it that some TBMs always view those who exit the church, and some of those who do it noisily (my exit wasn't pretty by any means) as eternal enemies of the church?
I don't see myself as an enemy of the church. I still have LDS friends, I on occasion attend LDS activites. My friends have accepted my life choice. A few I'm sure are still a bit uncomfortable, but I leave that up to them to work out with God. If they cannot see how at peace I am, then I don't know what to do....So why is it, that I'm seen as an enemy of the church? I know I'm not alone. There are people on here who I know are not hostile towards the church in the least, they just don't pet and praise it enough for the sentiments of some of the uber-TBMs here...and because of that they are labeled as enemies of the church.
Why?
You may be over estimating yourself.
Regards, MG
Care to elaborate?
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances. -Ghandi
GIMR wrote:Loran, I fully acknowledge that when you say things like the word "pathetic", you probably have a mirror in front of you.
I think everybody here sees that.
Except him.
Überzeugungen sind oft die gefährlichsten Feinde der Wahrheit.
[Certainty (that one is correct) is often the most dangerous enemy of the
truth.] - Friedrich Nietzsche
Only the members of TSCC and its leaders look at me as an enemy because my actions of pulling out tithe payers and blocking new ones as financially damaging to LDS Inc.
The rest of the world only sees a man sharing his experiences, knowledge and humor about his life in the LDS cult.
Would you former members of a Satanic cult enemies of that cult?
Do you call former concentration camp holocaust survivors enemies of the Nazis?