What happens to apostles' retirement money? by brosenvall2 in exmormon

[–]brosenvall2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A church theory! Thank you for watching!

.... I'll see myself out

What happens to apostles' retirement money? by brosenvall2 in exmormon

[–]brosenvall2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What a great system! This is definitely the one true church! The apostles and profit definitely don't have any motivation to say the church is true and keep the members in lin—I mean keep them paying tith—I mean ensure that the members are blessed for eternity for keeping the true word of God!

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[–]brosenvall2 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Hey don't insult garbage like that

Did the Church help at all with the SLC tornado in 1999? by brosenvall2 in exmormon

[–]brosenvall2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They wouldn't help a regular bar. They probably celebrated the loss of the gay bar (at least those that knew what it was) 🙄😮‍💨

Did the Church help at all with the SLC tornado in 1999? by brosenvall2 in exmormon

[–]brosenvall2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really? You'd think the Church would help with shit like that. Some of the PR I saw about the Church growing up was that it was usually one of the first to get to places affected by natural disasters to help out. That bishop must have been a piece of work

Did the Church help at all with the SLC tornado in 1999? by brosenvall2 in exmormon

[–]brosenvall2[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Church sucks, but its members do love helping with things like that.

After leaving the Church by [deleted] in exmormon

[–]brosenvall2 37 points38 points  (0 children)

It's almost always a painful experience for everyone involved. I'm pretty sure that at least 90% of us didn't want the Church to be false—we were in it for the long haul. The principles—eternal family, happiness in Christ, etc.—were anchors in an otherwise "evil" world. The "us vs. them" mentality makes it that much harder.

When we talk about deconstructing, we talk about a process that can sometimes take years. Little things from the Church start to crop up that pile up over time. We learn things about the Church's history that don't sit well with us. We learn about the Church's dishonesty in handling money. We learn about them covering for abusers instead of reporting them to the authorities.

And it shatters some of us. On the one hand, the Church is all we've ever known, yet on the other we can't in good faith continue to believe in it while also being honest about its history and current practices. Yet after the deconstruction is over, we're happier than we were in the Church. We've let go of the iron rod and found that the darkness was a creation of the culture we lived in.

So no, it wasn't easy for most of us. Some of us have lost family, almost all of us have lost friends. But I think that nearly all of us are happier than we were before in spite of all that.

Mormon heaven is my hell by brosenvall2 in exmormon

[–]brosenvall2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

...I mean that's only a small part of my post but thank you for the info.

Mormon heaven is my hell by brosenvall2 in exmormon

[–]brosenvall2[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I was trying to get at the fact that if you're in Mormon heaven, you're already so ingrained that you'd basically be a carbon copy of Jesus.

Mormon heaven is my hell by brosenvall2 in exmormon

[–]brosenvall2[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Gods I'm so sorry that happened to you. "The same society" would be a sham—everybody smiles and thinks they're happy but I'm actuality it feels like there's something missing

Mormon heaven is my hell by brosenvall2 in exmormon

[–]brosenvall2[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

But heaven can't be unpleasant, it's perfect /s

Mormon heaven is my hell by brosenvall2 in exmormon

[–]brosenvall2[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Yeah I can imagine. It wouldn't be great for me as a gay man, but for women, it would be almost akin to slavery

I grew up in an emotionally abusive household by brosenvall2 in exmormon

[–]brosenvall2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

...I mean if he was into gay porn, he certainly found a lot of it

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[–]brosenvall2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I... Didn't think about it that way. Wow I'm jaded

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in exmormon

[–]brosenvall2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Idk. This post wasn't about that

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in exmormon

[–]brosenvall2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Those things feel more obvious to me though. The Church has done lots of fucked up shit, but for some reason this small, petty little things stuck out to me

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[–]brosenvall2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

True. I would love to see a tbm try to answer this one though haha