Actually, with admittedly no evidence for this, my gut feeling is that the majority of members who go inactive do so without having learned about Joseph Smith's secret wives, the Book of Abraham problems, evidence against the Book of Mormon, etc. It wouldn't surprise me that many of them come to believe the church "isn't true", but not necessarily for the same specific reasons as people like me and you.
Yeah... I had no idea of the "issues" but many of the teachings and doctrine did not match my sense of reality, my personal "inspiration", and what I consider goodness.
~dancer~
"The search for reality is the most dangerous of all undertakings for it destroys the world in which you live." Nisargadatta Maharaj
Actually, with admittedly no evidence for this, my gut feeling is that the majority of members who go inactive do so without having learned about Joseph Smith's secret wives, the Book of Abraham problems, evidence against the Book of Mormon, etc. It wouldn't surprise me that many of them come to believe the church "isn't true", but not necessarily for the same specific reasons as people like me and you.
Yeah... I had no idea of the "issues" but many of the teachings and doctrine did not match my sense of reality, my personal "inspiration", and what I consider goodness.
~dancer~
Count me as well among those who left because it simply defied reason and common sense. I was not yet a teenager when I bagan to question it, so clearly, it doesn't take a sophiticated adult to find reasons why what the church teaches is bogus (the far bigger mystery to me is what keeps adults in, not what causes them to leave). Finding out about church history after the fact has simply been evidential icing on the cake, so to speak.
God belief is for people who don't want to live life on the universe's terms.