Strong communities is one of the only real benefits that pretty much all religions can offer people. And it's a very powerful one!

The issue about so-called anti-mormon literature. This is something many returned missionaries struggle with. They hear about a lot of material on their mission for the first time. When the RM starts reading all this stuff they are challenged by doctrinal issues, leadership, and early church history. As a result many RMs then go inactive.

The lightbulb didn't turn on until I was in my mid-sixties after struggling with issues I chose to ignore. Then I studied outside the lines. Books that weren't approved but were researched thoroughly. The one book the pushed me over the edge was "In Sacred Loneliness" by Todd Compton. I resigned a short time later.

This is awesome! Thank you

I had a friend go on a mission from the Mormon church and once he came back from his mission he left. He said he was trying to recruit a woman at one point and he was telling her about how men can become gods and men can give blessings and she asked why woman couldn’t do that and why arent woman supported more in the church and he kinda questioned himself and was like idk. After that he left

I really like these thumbnail interview snippets - almost like trailers for the full program. They are effective teasers that point me back to episodes I may have missed. Good move. In this case, I can’t believe I missed the full interview of the completely amazing Carah.

Love this! Thanks for sharing your experience and story, Nuancehoe! It's only just a few months ago when I first saw your Tiktok's that you shared in the exmo sub.

I love how you are acknowledging that it was a valuable part of your life journey--for a certain period of time (the social community aspect when your girls were little). I’m dubious about the whole thing, but the community aspect has been a supportive factor in my life as well. I also like how you said “the universe spit me out into Provo, UT. “ This is pretty much how I feel about the universe planting me in SLC into a whacky Mormon family.

A lot of people victim blame instead of listening to a persons experience with something. Its like a woman who has been raped and other women explain that they have not been raped so you must have done something to bring it on or you are lying.

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Millennials (ages 26-42) and Gen -Z (ages 3-25) are having struggles. They do not like being shamed. They don't like seeing members of the LGBTQ2 community excluded. They also may have social and political ideas that differ from the church. This demographic will be a challenge for the church. There is also something called "progressive mormonism" which is questioning more orthodox ideas of doctrine, history, socio-political beliefs and culture of the church. This form of mormonism has already infiltrated BYU. A friend in Utah said it is also talked about in Provo and SLC wards.

Born to a mother who was an LDS cultist, she started an attack on me my first day home from hospital. I was a rebel from birth and I dared to turn over. She used the church as a grudgel to try and destroy my real personality. I thought if was garbage early on. In my mother's eyes I was an evil spirit there to challenge her true belief and it was her mission on Earth to destroy me. I'm 80 years old now, and I fought the good battle all my life, but she & the church manged to mess my life up for a LONG while. She died in 2004 at 97, and to her death railed against me.

I left because it didn't make sense. Information in the book of mormon has been shown as false by scientific evidence. Example the American Indians are not from Isreal. They are obviously from the bering land strait into America's. DNA evidence supports this... and of course other things to. It wasn't hard to leave because I always had my doubts. I was told doubt my doubts. I replied no that is ridiculous you should investigate your doubts to confirm your doubts and founded. I didn't have friends so it was pretty to leave

I was so shunned when I Left the Mormons

I hope you Know Jesus Christ as your personal Saviour🙏🕊🙋‍♀️🕊✝️

Religion is very addictive. It’s supposed to be an obsessive compulsive lifestyle. It’s about controlling others without offering them good reasons to live on their own. It is a definite Mommie Culture and Conditioning. It’s a culture instilling people with severe dependence.

1 CORINTHIANS 6:9 CONDEMNS THE BEHAVIOR YOU SUPPORT. HE SAID DONOT BE FOOLED. CLEARLY YOU ARE THE KIND OF PERSON HE WAS WRITING TO. DO BE FOOLED.

The church fails to take the blame for its failures such as not giving anyone with African decent the priesthood until the civil rights act was passed.

These are the same people that tell you high taxes are old.

Joseph Smith is nobody

One of the problems with Christianity is that most sermons are either solely about the New Testament or are Joel Osteen style sermons that have very little to do with either the New or Old Testament. Most of Joel Osteen type sermons resemble improved Tony Robbins motivational type lectures on how to be successful in life or resemble get rich quick schemes. Deuteronomy 4:2 basically says not to substitute Joel Osteen type material for the Old Testament as Joel Osteen type sermons support Christianity’s adulterous & idolatrous worship of idols, money & financial success. The reason the Old Testament or Tanakh is so important is that the Old Testament is more or less a history book of the human race. And if you don’t learn from history, you are doomed to repeat the same mistakes you have made in the past. The main problem with the New Testament is that in terms of a history book, it only goes back to the time of JC. The New Testament just doesn’t cover a very long time period. The Old Testament goes back to creation of the universe and covers a much larger time frame. The big question is about whether or not Christians should be worried in the least. The answer is found in Isaiah 27:1 with the Leviathan representing Christianity. G - - always lives up to His promises. Of course, you would only know this fact if you have read the Old Testament. Another thing to consider if you are well read in the Tanakh is that the Levites lived on tithes in exchange for teaching G - -‘s word to the populace. Not long after the prophet Joshua died, the Levi group of priests much like Joel Osteen began teaching the populace more about what they felt the populace wanted to hear with the motivation largely being to get the biggest donations. Once Jews re-instituted idol worship & turned away from worshipping G - -, G - - had approximately 95% of the Jewish population massacred first by the Assyrian army and then by the Babylonian army. Only a small remnant of Jews survived. G - -‘s punishment for the Jews was considerably worse than what happened to Jews in World War II in terms of percentage of the population massacred. And G - - considered Jews His children. So if you think Christians will somehow escape G - -‘s wrath from idolatrous Joel Osteen type preaching, then think again as G - - doesn’t have the same type of relationship with Christians due to Christian worship of JC as their savior. Isaiah 27:1 will eventually prevail, and G - - will very likely not spare even a single Christian artery or vein. In fact Obadiah 18 basically states that there will be no survivors from the house of Esau. Are there any other unforeseen problems created by Joel Osteen type preaching whereby very little Tanakh based scripture is taught during sermons? Yes. First Christians suffer immensely financially & socially from this type of Tanakh-free preaching. Just look at how many radio talk shows have popped up in major cities across the USA with the theme of “catching cheaters” in regards to adultery. Cheater themed talk shows are incredibly popular and are now major advertising revenue creators for radio talk shows as radio listeners love to hear about other peoples’ misery. Adultery, and divorce caused by adultery is absolutely rampant throughout America. The social costs are in the multiple billions in terms of children who now live with one parent or who now have to move back and forth between parents during the holidays. Poor quality, low Tanakh content Joel Osteen type Christian preaching also invariably leads to rampant antisemitism when divorced broken family angry Christians look at their happily married Jewish neighbors who tend to not only be happy in life but who tend to have multiple happy and well adjusted children. And all this Christian divorce, misery & unhappiness could be so easily avoided if only Christians would realize that the only person cashing in on Tanakh-free sermons is possibly Joel Osteen and his family. Tanakh-free sermons create a situation much like the mega state lottery where there is only one 400 million dollar winner and everyone besides the winner loses the $3 they paid for the tickets. With Tanakh-free sermons, Joel Osteen is the main lottery winner. Additionally, the Christian version of the Old Testament in the Christian Bible has been so severely altered to support Christianity’s love for idolatry and adultery, that the Christian version of the Old Testament is no longer even remotely usable. Go to Sefaria.org or Chabad.org to get an unaltered free online version. If you don’t believe adultery is a problem in the USA just contemplate the proliferation of morning radio show programs about catching cheaters. Additionally, what does the Tanakh or history of the human race say about false prophets/ preachers who lead their sheep-like followers astray for massive financial gain? Well, it never, ever ends well. For example, mega-preacher Gwen Shamblin Lara who instead of teaching Tanakh based scripture, tried to get Christians to lose weight through nutrition. Gwen Shamblin Lara perished at a very young age in a plane crash along with her husband and 5 other church leaders. And the list of Christian-type total disasters goes on. The reason Gwen Lara Shamblin perished is that historically one of G - -‘s main weapons of destruction for His enemies is disease / pestilence. Obesity is a disease, and if G - - had allowed Gwen Lara Shamblin to continue living, she would have been in direct conflict with G - - in preventing Isaiah 27:1 from coming to fruition. Read last 3 paragraphs below to learn about G - -‘s other preferred weapons He sometimes uses on His enemies. I know many people feel “saved” by JC, but there is a big difference between “feeling saved” and actually being “saved.” For example, you might feel totally saved & safe jumping off a plane 30,000 miles up because you “feel” you have the best parachute money can buy. However, if you forget to read and apply Tanakh to your life and cheat on your spouse, you won’t actually be safe if the parachute cord was cut by your spouse after discovering the affair. But, then it is too late once you’re headed downward at 110 miles per hour. You see, you don’t want to end up fulfilling Isaiah 27:1 with your own life. If you’re interested in current events about the talk about the Gog Magog war starting, read Ezekiel 38:18-23. Isaiah 27:1 basically continues with Ezekiel 38:18-23 if you want to learn what happens when G-‘s anger flares up over army invasion of Israel’s soil. G - -‘s weapons of choice will be pestilence, bloodshed, torrential rain, hailstones & sulfurous fire, so that the world will know that G - - is both Lord and savior. Judging from past holy wars, bloodshed is typically referring to as some type of psychological warfare on enemy army where enemy soldiers standing next to each other begin fighting each other in confusion. You see that if you are well read in Tanakh, you see the world through a very different lens, and you immediately see and understand that the current war Russia is unleashing on the world is nothing more than G - -‘s very creative way of using a number of countries to fulfill Isaiah 27:1 as G - - once unleashed the Babylonians & Assyrians on Israel as a very creative form of punishment for the Jews. Ukrainian Jews were less than 1/2 of 1% of the Ukrainian population, and post World War II Jews are incredibly well versed at exiting war torn countries well before situations worsen. The main concept from the scriptures that directly relates to current events is the concept of “bloodguilt“ and the book of Samuel I. Vladimir Putin will very likely end up exactly like King Saul due to excessive bloodguilt - premature death - but not before first being used by G - - to bring Isaiah 27:1 to fruition. 635

Hi I understand that the Devil uses people's emotions to get them to leave the Church. The way I look at this is Jesus can not lie and always keeps his promises. So I can back up ever thing I believe with scriptures. The Bible says let us reason together so this is where I start from going forward.

I studied this at university. People leave the LDS Church for several reasons. The major reason is somebody in the church said or did something to the person and they then leave. This is also a common factor found in other non LDS churches. Doctrinal issues are secondary.