Posted by:
checkingout
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Date: July 03, 2014 01:28AM
So I can't stand that the church lies and lies and gets away with it and that people waste their time and money being used by this organization. I enjoy my ex-mo freedom and wanted to let others know what I researched and discovered. So I posted the CES Letter on my Facebook last weekend with the hope of getting out the truth to those of my friends on Facebook that are LDS. I provided a link to the web site and a short message about those who are LDS or consider becoming LDS to consider some facts they may not have heard before.
I got one Like and then this from a TBM friend of 6 years:
"I respect your decision to leave the Church, but now that you have chosen to start opposing it openly, I find it insulting and offensive. If we are friends, please stop. Friends respect their friend's beliefs."
My interpretation of this is that it was ok for me to leave, just keep my mouth shut. With a warning that the friendship ends if I post anything further "anti-LDS". I never say a word when all the pro-church posts occur around conference, people go on trek and post pix, post stuff about church videos, and on and on, but then I get this.
I think the message within the message is that now I'm being an apostate ("opposing it openly"), he can't associate with an apostate (can lose his temple recommend).
I plan to respond, challenging him on telling me to shut up about what I think. In addition, that to threaten a friendship over my expressing my thoughts is sad. I will lose the friendship, but I don't think I need this kind of conditional one-sided friendship.