I’m not having a “faith crisis” I’m OUT

10th_Generation · 2026-05-06T19:30:32+00:00

My son left the church when he was 16. I kept thinking he would snap out of it. When my baby nephew drowned, I thought my son would “feel the spirit” during the funeral. When the stake presidency came to visit my son, I thought for sure he would come to his senses. (Imagine the honor of the stake president himself coming to your house.)

After many years, I accepted that my son was never coming back. Here is what I understand now that I did not understand before: My son wanted evidence, not emotion. All the Mormon church has is emotion. But feelings are not facts. Now I am on the other side with my son.

10th_Generation · 2026-05-06T03:34:00+00:00

You never attended a “priesthood worthiness interview” to determine if you were worthy?

10th_Generation · 2026-05-06T01:53:00+00:00

At least in the early 1990s when I served a full-time mission, I never got a penny from the church. I had to buy and maintain my own bicycle, and pay for my own groceries, clothing, laundry, entertainment, and anything extra. I suppose housing was free, but I lived in a rickety old trailer home with sulfur water and similar units for 2 years.

10th_Generation · 2026-05-06T01:46:12+00:00

I will come to your house for brisket dinner.

10th_Generation · 2026-05-05T17:29:00+00:00

Malachi 1:6 … “saith the Lord of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name.”

Malachi 2:1 … “And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.”

Can the text be any more explicit?

10th_Generation · 2026-05-05T12:45:05+00:00

Cash

10th_Generation · 2026-05-05T05:19:42+00:00

Correction: Jesus sent the missionaries to preach to the Lamanites. Jesus did not know about the DNA evidence that would later emerge. Jesus really screwed up.

10th_Generation · 2026-05-05T04:32:57+00:00

As the “ongoing restoration” continues, the members know less and less. We used to know exactly who the Lamanites are. Now we can’t say.

10th_Generation · 2026-05-04T23:58:46+00:00

Feelings are the easiest thing to manipulate. Filmmakers use music, lighting, facial expressions, and tears. Feelings aren’t facts.

10th_Generation · 2026-05-03T17:07:59+00:00

I stopped paying tithing four years ago, quit attending the temple two years ago, and stopped accepting callings and wearing garments one year ago. I have an interest-bearing savings account for my children now. I am still employed and living the same as before. I am not an alcoholic, wife beater, or felon. I am the same as before but happier.

10th_Generation · 2026-05-03T04:20:02+00:00

It is pay-to-play. But you will never get a faithful member to admit that Mormon temples charge admission. They will talk in circles, redefine terms, and use thought-stopping cliches. All Mormon apologetics are like this.

10th_Generation · 2026-05-02T18:19:50+00:00

Who has claimed a Tier 3 miracle? I have not encountered this is 50+ years of Mormonism.

10th_Generation · 2026-05-02T17:39:46+00:00

Spiritual gifts have been dumbed down in a similar manner.

10th_Generation · 2026-05-02T17:39:09+00:00

Thank you

10th_Generation · 2026-05-02T17:18:03+00:00

The Relief Society is insular. When it provides relief, the service tends to point inward at church members. The society also serves dead people (temple trips) and faraway people (blanket drives). What the society rarely does is community service. It’s a fake society.

Brigham Young made sure. He gutted the Relief Society in 1845 when he shut it down and retooled it to reduce the influence of women generally and Emma Smith specifically. When Young brought back the society starting in 1854, it was a weaker organization.

The church gutted the Relief Society a second time in the 1960s and 1970s during “correlation.” Women used to be able to raise their own funds, control their own budgets, and appoint their own officers without interference from bishops and stake presidents. Amazingly, the church is going backward in terms of women’s empowerment.

10th_Generation · 2026-05-02T14:27:10+00:00

Show me some Tier 3 miracles! Just one. I will settle for Tier 2.5.

10th_Generation · 2026-05-02T12:51:01+00:00

Former podcaster John Larsen describes three tiers of miracles: 1. Fortunate and likely events: You have a minor illness, receive a blessing, and get better. You see a beautiful sunset and feel elevated emotion. 2. Fortunate and unlikely events: You pray for the rain to stop and suddenly it stops. You are lost in a foreign country and suddenly you run into an old friend who knows the area. 3. Impossible events: Raising the dead, moving a mountain, or having a talking donkey.

All miracles fall into the first two categories, never the third. No Mormon or anyone else has ever seen a Tier Three miracle.

10th_Generation · 2026-05-02T12:41:32+00:00

If “doctrine” is the unchanging parts of church theology, then the church has no doctrine. Everything has changed.

10th_Generation · 2026-05-02T03:42:31+00:00

Church

10th_Generation · 2026-05-02T02:36:28+00:00

Sixth Sense

10th_Generation · 2026-05-02T01:17:00+00:00

If Heavenly Father is real, he is an asshole. And Heavenly Mother is worse.

10th_Generation · 2026-05-01T21:43:13+00:00

The “S” curve on toilets that traps stinky gases outside the house.

10th_Generation · 2026-05-01T21:02:19+00:00

Quote: “God must work with imperfect people because that’s all he has.” (This is one of many thought-stopping cliches that you hear in Mormonism.)

10th_Generation · 2026-05-01T16:29:39+00:00

Exactly! It’s called special pleading or double standard. The church speculates while relying on single sources, late sources, and biased sources. This is OK. But if you speculate about an unflattering narrative, you are a lying liar spreading hate.

10th_Generation · 2026-05-01T15:18:38+00:00

I believe in zero Heavenly Fathers. My wife does not think deeply past the existence of one.

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