As the title says I've been inactive for 3 months studying the truth of the church. I realized through psychology in high school that mormonism is in fact a cult. I started researching about the rules of the church because I enjoy drinking Jack Daniels,Tea,and coffee. I also enjoy looking at porn and masturbating. These are apparently "sins" to mormons. The bishop asked me a couple months ago when I was going on a mission I told him i refuse to knock on strangers doors and bug them when they wish to do other things. I hate salesmen and essentially missionaries are salesmen in my opinion. If it matters I've never gave the church any of my money.

Also my mother wants me to go active in the church again but I would rather not because I already accepted the church as false and wish to resign.

When I signed up for a psych class my mom warned me not to get too enamored by the stuff I learned, or I might be led out of the church.

I'm only asduming through the psych clasd you're here?

Nah, only in very small part if at all.

Steve Hassan, a licensed mental health professional and America's leading expert on cults, lists the Mormon Church on his website as a thought-control organization: https://freedomofmind.com//Info/list.php

A year ago, The New York Times reported:

"Around the world and in the United States, where the faith was founded, the Mormon Church is grappling with a wave of doubt and disillusionment among members who encountered information on the Internet that sabotaged what they were taught about their faith, according to interviews with dozens of Mormons and those who study the church."

"...the disillusionment is infecting the church’s best and brightest. A survey of more than 3,300 Mormon disbelievers, released last year, found that more than half of the men and four in 10 of the women had served in leadership positions in the church."

(Ref. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/us/some-mormons-search-the-web-and-find-doubt.html?_r=0 )

The NY Times report is also interested because it describes how a senior Mormon Church leader in Europe, Hans Mattsson, "discovered credible evidence that the [LDS] church’s founder, Joseph Smith, was a polygamist and that the Book of Mormon and other scriptures were rife with historical anomalies...

"...Mr. Mattsson said he felt that the foundation on which he had built his life began to crumble."

“'I felt like I had an earthquake under my feet,' said Mr. Mattsson, now an emeritus area authority. 'Everything I’d been taught, everything I’d been proud to preach about and witness about just crumbled under my feet. It was such a terrible psychological and nearly physical disturbance.'”

In Jan. 2012, Reuters published a special report, "Mormonism besieged by the modern age", which said:

"A religious studies class late last year at Utah State University in Logan, Utah, was unusual for two reasons. The small group of students, faculty and faithful there to hear Mormon Elder Marlin Jensen were openly troubled about the future of their church, asking hard questions. And Jensen was uncharacteristically frank in acknowledging their concerns.

"Did the leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints know that members are 'leaving in droves?' a woman asked.

"'We are aware,' said Jensen, according to a tape recording of his unscripted remarks. 'And I'm speaking of the 15 men that are above me in the hierarchy of the church.'"

"'My own daughter,' he then added, 'has come to me and said, "Dad, why didn't you ever tell me that Joseph Smith was a polygamist?"' For the younger generation, Jensen acknowledged, 'Everything's out there for them to consume if they want to Google it.' The manuals used to teach the young church doctrine, meanwhile, are 'severely outdated.'"

(Ref. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/30/us-mormonchurch-idUSTRE80T1CM20120130 )

There's A LOT of 'faith'-busting, well-documented online info., including in videos, about Mormonism. If you're interested, check out the additional material and links, starting at "The Book of Mormon", at http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,1330064,1330156#msg-1330156

Don't waste two years of your life promoting/marketing cultic Mormonism. My 21-year-old nephew finished his 2-year stint as a mishie in May and because his pre-mission savings were spent (wasted) paying for his bills when he was marketing the fraud of Mormonism as an "Elder", he can't afford to go to college.

Not surprisingly, the multi-billion-dollar LD$ Church isn't helping him out financially. If you're interested, info. about the VERY rich Mormon Church's corporate empire is at http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-07-10/how-the-mormons-make-money#p1

You are too young to be drinking Jack Daniels.

If I'm old enough to join the military I'm old enough to drink

He didn't join the military. Kids just say that to excuse their drinking. If he joined the military different story.

By the way that response is groupthink, Mormonthink.

My comment was situational.

Enjoy your Jack Daniels in high school and the consequences. We have a regjlar Anon poster on here who did the same. Seems to be pretty troubled man now. Even apart from Mormonism.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/27/2014 11:03AM by gentlestrength.

Many people here have reached the same conclusions that you have. It's your life; live it as you see fit.

Sounds like you have a good life without Mormonism but your mother will have to deal with her disappointment.