How Mormon Dialogue & Discussions crushed my testimony

[_lostindc]

There must be an "I left the Church" MAD Lib floating around somewhere that doubting and ex Mormons copy from.

There must be something to the consistency.

[_lostindc]

Thanks for sharing, ldc. I'm sorry for your pain and your struggles, but glad to hear you and your family are united in this decision and continuing bravely on. That's more than a lot of "apostates" can say.

thanks, I appreciate the kind words.

[_Darth J]

We laugh at the absurdity of the city creek mall, and we both laughed when we both did not feel like laughing, such as last night after discussing her pain over losing her faith, when I showed her the thread on Church service missionaries having service missions at a Church operated for-profit hunting reserve.

That was me, in this thread: http://www.mormondialogue.org/topic/500 ... -apostate/

You're welcome.

I very much empathize with your experience. In my case, though, I lost faith in the modern LDS Church, and the current leadership first. I actually still believed in the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith's alleged prophethood for a brief time after that. It was after I determined that the modern LDS Church is a vapid corporate shell that I came to the realization that Mormonism was never true to begin with.

[_Darth J]

Thanks for sharing, ldc. I'm sorry for your pain and your struggles, but glad to hear you and your family are united in this decision and continuing bravely on. That's more than a lot of "apostates" can say.

You really are fortunate that your family is together in this. I was divorced before I lost faith in Mormonism. I later found out that my ex and I had lost our faith independently of each other. I've seen many people talk about losing their faith while still being married to a believing Mormon, and I'm sure that adds an order of magnitude to the problem.

EDIT: "You" = lostindc, not CaliforniaKid.

[_consiglieri]

Dear LostinDC,

I remember you from the MAD Board, and I think you and I locked horns on a few occasions. If you are the same lostindc, and if my memory is any good, you struck me as pretty orthodox at the time and not very willing to look at alternative views.

I was surprised in encountering a very different kind of lostindc on this board some time later.

I like this lostindc better.

For what it's worth.

All the Best!

--Consiglieri

[_lulu]

There must be an "I left the Church" MAD Lib floating around somewhere that doubting and ex Mormons copy from.

How to make bcspace disappear?

Ask him a question.

[_ldsfaqs]

You people were "on your way out already".....

You all need to stop fooling yourselves that it was FAIR, or Mormons, or Mormon Apologists that caused you to loose your testimony.

It's a perfectly natural phenomena that when you start to become an enemy of others, you also become their enemy.

Christ was tolerated and accepted for a time, but eventually the "lines" were drawn between the believers and the haters/doubters.

Don't blame us for YOUR unbelief..... You are entirely responsible for yourself.

[_ldsfaqs]

I found that places like Fair and farms just helped to confirm the information we may hear about. That they don't realize their explanations are horrible and only help those who want to believe more then they want the truth.

You see what you want to see..... You don't speak the actual truth.
To those who are actually objective and don't have a dog in the fight, FAIR entirely debunks anti-mormon claims.

[_lulu]

You people were "on your way out already".....

You all need to stop fooling yourselves that it was FAIR, or Mormons, or Mormon Apologists that caused you to loose your testimony.

It's a perfectly natural phenomena that when you start to become an enemy of others, you also become their enemy.

Christ was tolerated and accepted for a time, but eventually the "lines" were drawn between the believers and the haters/doubters.

Don't blame us for YOUR unbelief..... You are entirely responsible for yourself.

Tell me more about the creation of those "pre-Adamite" spirits. Or are you hiding under the bed with bcspace?

I hope you're not touching each other.

[_Blixa]

You people were "on your way out already".....

You all need to stop fooling yourselves that it was FAIR, or Mormons, or Mormon Apologists that caused you to loose your testimony.

It's a perfectly natural phenomena that when you start to become an enemy of others, you also become their enemy.

Christ was tolerated and accepted for a time, but eventually the "lines" were drawn between the believers and the haters/doubters.

Don't blame us for YOUR unbelief..... You are entirely responsible for yourself.

Tell me more about the creation of those "pre-Adamite" spirits. Or are you hiding under the bed with bcspace?

I hope you're not touching each other.

I love you lulu.