charity wrote:the road to hana wrote:
How do you know they don't post on discussion boards? How do you know what their lives are like intimately?
That's an interesting concept. There are a couple who have continued on as friends. When we talk, if I mention being in the temple last week, they don't recoil in horror or start laughing behind their hands. It is hard for me to imagine that they have their nice, friendly faces on with me, and then go on an anti-message board and assume a whole different persona.
I can tell you people, what you see here is who I am. I don't put on a different personality when I go out the door.
You are way out in left field, Charity.
My longtime neighbor is a Mormon. We used to be in the same ward.
When I left the church, she told me my home was covered in a "black shroud of evil" and that she couldn't stand to even look at it! I was still kind to her even though she was shunning me. Her husband lost his job, and I anonymously sent her gift cards for groceries, even though at the time she wouldn't let her children play with mine! She thought the gift cards were from someone in the ward. To this day, two years later, I've never told her differently.
She eventually needed a babysitter badly enough that she asked me to watch her children. Thankfully, she learned that though I am an apostate, I am still a good person. And though I think what goes on in temples is worthless, I still watch her children sometimes when she wants to attend! She tells me she'd like to go to the temple and asks me to babysit, and I do if it's at all possible. I even watch her kids while she goes visiting teaching! Because I love her and her children.
Mormonism is a fraud. Mormons are, for the most part, lovely. I love lots of Mormons and want to be kind and helpful to them, even though I hope they do find out the truth about their church.
KA