What's so difficult to understand about Mormonism?
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 8:33 pm
I am one of numerous apostates that frequent MDB that was BIC, raised actively in the Church, graduated seminary, obtained degrees at BYU (doing the requisite 16 credits of religion--28 in my case), went on a mission.
Now, all of a sudden because I've apostatized, I am told here by TBMs that I never understood the Mormon Church and its teachings. (Even though quite a few need more of a Know Your Religion training vis-a-vis the knowledge of Mormon history and teaching that I yet retain.)
Isn't that an indictment against all of those Sunday School, Primary, MIA, priesthood, Mission Home, etc. programs, with correlated materials towards the last 15 years, being completely ineffective?
How about that daily reading of the scriptures? Totally ineffective then, wasn't it?
Watching all those old geezers pontificating at probably 30 GCs once I was old enough to listen intently. So that would be almost 300 hours of it! Completely ineffective, right?
What a waste of Mission Home and two years of my life if from the materials I supplied and spoon fed to me, I had no idea what Mormon teachings are. What an utter failure by God's prophets writing those scriptures, COB in designing its failure programs, and the correlation committee with what must be utterly useless teaching materials.
When I stopped believing, did God force another veil of forgetfulness over my mind, distorting my memory and understanding of Mormon teachings--and doing it in the same way with each and every other apostate that posts here at MDB?
I don't recall a thread devoted to this topic, so I am starting one.
Now, all of a sudden because I've apostatized, I am told here by TBMs that I never understood the Mormon Church and its teachings. (Even though quite a few need more of a Know Your Religion training vis-a-vis the knowledge of Mormon history and teaching that I yet retain.)
Isn't that an indictment against all of those Sunday School, Primary, MIA, priesthood, Mission Home, etc. programs, with correlated materials towards the last 15 years, being completely ineffective?
How about that daily reading of the scriptures? Totally ineffective then, wasn't it?
Watching all those old geezers pontificating at probably 30 GCs once I was old enough to listen intently. So that would be almost 300 hours of it! Completely ineffective, right?
What a waste of Mission Home and two years of my life if from the materials I supplied and spoon fed to me, I had no idea what Mormon teachings are. What an utter failure by God's prophets writing those scriptures, COB in designing its failure programs, and the correlation committee with what must be utterly useless teaching materials.
When I stopped believing, did God force another veil of forgetfulness over my mind, distorting my memory and understanding of Mormon teachings--and doing it in the same way with each and every other apostate that posts here at MDB?
I don't recall a thread devoted to this topic, so I am starting one.