DiscussMormonism.com

Look at the screenshot I provided and notice how the anti-Mormon influencer is asking for your money to help support his efforts to demolish a religious institution that has existed for over 200 years. From the perspective of an exmormon, what this anti-Mormon influencer is saying about the Mormon church makes one feel positive about leaving the church they grew up in because there are often numerous questions people have when leaving the church and finding a voice that kinda agrees with you can help add support and make one feel like the right decision was made in leaving the church, at least at first. But, over the past twenty years, anti-Mormon influencers have learned that if they can keep talking negatively about the church day after day, week after week, year after year, exmormons will become addicted to the anti-Mormon message and come to rely on the anti-Mormon influencer for comfort, support, and encouragement, and become addicted to the negative message the anti-Mormon influencer is relying on to keep his followers.

What does it all mean? That is, the anti-Mormon influencer community has learned over the last few decades that exmormons are vulnerable and often fearful of leaving the religion in which they grew up. And anti-Mormon influencers have discovered that if they can supply exmormons with enough negative content about the Mormon church and its members, many exmormons will find comfort and a false sense of relief knowing that there are at least a few people out there who feel the same way they do. Essentially, anti-Mormon influencers have chosen to take advantage of vulnerable exmormons, similar to how Joseph Smith chose to preach against Christianity and paint Christianity negatively in order for questioning Christians to join the Mormon church after hearing what Joseph had to say negatively about Christianity. And, lo and behold, Joseph Smith also requested money from the people he was attempting to influence. Is it just me who finds it amusing that anti-Mormon influencers are mimicking the greatest anti-Christian influencer of all time, Joseph Smith? Is it just me who thinks it's hilarious that Joseph Smith and his cohorts preached and talked negatively about a well-established religion in order to persuade disaffected Christians to join their religion so that new Mormons could eventually pay money, and that anti-Mormon influencers preach and talk negatively about Mormonism in order for disaffected Mormons to eventually push the donate button and eventually start paying money on a regular basis?

Please don’t tell me this is your idea of clever!

https://youtu.be/S0XKqKfkve0

Great video explaining how anti Mormon influencer John Dehlin is breaking up families for profit. A $quarter$million$ annually. Talk about a true prophet! And some influential exmormons aren't happy. Love to hear feedback.

I don’t get it. You don’t like Joseph Smith. You don’t like John Dehlin. Why waste time on either one?

Lowrance, you posted, “ That is, the anti-Mormon influencer community has learned over the last few decades that exmormons are vulnerable and often fearful of leaving the religion in which they grew up.”

What do you think would be the reasons someone would be fearful of leaving TCoJCoLDS? Where does the real root of the problem lie when families break apart when a LDS leaves the church?

msnobody wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 25, 2023 12:56 pm

Lowrance, you posted, “ That is, the anti-Mormon influencer community has learned over the last few decades that exmormons are vulnerable and often fearful of leaving the religion in which they grew up.”

What do you think would be the reasons someone would be fearful of leaving TCoJCoLDS? Where does the real root of the problem lie when families break apart when a LDS leaves the church?

Where is the true source of the problem when a family member abandons any religion? Where is the problem when a family member leaves a family business that the parents built in order for their children to take over someday and the parents become enraged? Where is the problem when atheist parents become enraged and refuse to speak to their child because the child has chosen to become Mormon? The question you posed is not unique to Mormonism, and it is also not clever. That is my point, and the audience here is completely blind to what these anti-Mormon influencers are doing to families.

Lowrance, msnobody asks sincere questions. You don’t need to be rude.

Lowrance wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 25, 2023 1:37 pm

msnobody wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 25, 2023 12:56 pm

Lowrance, you posted, “ That is, the anti-Mormon influencer community has learned over the last few decades that exmormons are vulnerable and often fearful of leaving the religion in which they grew up.”

What do you think would be the reasons someone would be fearful of leaving TCoJCoLDS? Where does the real root of the problem lie when families break apart when a LDS leaves the church?

Where is the true source of the problem when a family member abandons any religion? Where is the problem when a family member leaves a family business that the parents built in order for their children to take over someday and the parents become enraged? Where is the problem when atheist parents become enraged and refuse to speak to their child because the child has chosen to become Mormon? The question you posed is not unique to Mormonism, and it is also not clever. That is my point, and the audience here is completely blind to what these anti-Mormon influencers are doing to families.

Lowrance, any chance you can answer the questions msnobody asked?

OK, Atlantic Lowrance. So your case is that Joseph Smith was a con man who duped others, bagged on Christians, and stole their money, so why would anyone leave the LDS Church?

IHAQ wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 25, 2023 3:21 pm

Lowrance wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 25, 2023 1:37 pm

Where is the true source of the problem when a family member abandons any religion? Where is the problem when a family member leaves a family business that the parents built in order for their children to take over someday and the parents become enraged? Where is the problem when atheist parents become enraged and refuse to speak to their child because the child has chosen to become Mormon? The question you posed is not unique to Mormonism, and it is also not clever. That is my point, and the audience here is completely blind to what these anti-Mormon influencers are doing to families.

Lowrance, any chance you can answer the questions msnobody asked?

I did provide a response to the question. It's not Mormonism that's the issue; it's leaving the safety of the family, religious, or community structure you were raised in. This not only makes you fearful of what the future holds for you, but it also makes the people you care about fearful because it forces them out of their comfort zone and forces them to decide whether or not they will respect the decision you make. Mormonism isn't the issue; leaving these structures is. Are you able to acknowledge that such behavior occurs in other contexts besides Mormonism? As in the case where a child who was brought up by atheist parents is shunned for converting to a religious belief?