The Nehor wrote:antishock8 wrote:Yes. I would like you to demonstrate that you can actually, freely, leave the Mormon church, to make the point that you're not enslaved to it. Otherwise, you're just demonstrating that you are, in fact, enslaved to this organization because you've been brainwashed to believe that if you leave it you'll suffer some undesirable fate. THAT is precisely what I'm talking about. You think you're free... But the fact is you're not. You're there. You're doing what they tell you to do.
I already told you. I did leave. I eventually came back. Now prove you're free. Rejoin.
This is the childlike thinking that I'm talking about. You equate both of our situations as being similar enough to say what you just said.
Sure I could voluntarily rejoin your church, but you're asking me to cede my freedom to a totalitarian authority whereas I'm asking you to free yourself from that. You ask me to become a slave in order to prove that I'm free which makes no sense whatsoever, but I'm asking you to prove you're free by walking away from a controlling entity. The nuance that you're clearly missing isn't the physical ability to locate yourself inside a chapel, but the mental ability to allow yourself to walk away. I don't think you have the ability to do that BECAUSE they own you via your fear of the repurcussions they have set for you, whether it's temporal or "eternal" in nature. They control you through the paradigm they created, and in which you find yourself.
Prove you're free. Walk away.