Posted by:
raiku
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Date: November 29, 2015 02:44PM
There's so many things I hated about being Mormon that I no longer have to worry about:
1) Three hour church blocks, long and boring
2) Fast and testimony meeting
3) Early morning seminary
4) Giving huge amounts of money in the form of tithing with that little yellow slip of paper
5) "Confessionals" with bishops where they asked deep questions and yet had no legal guidelines or formal training
6) Fasting every month, and guilt trips for fast offerings
7) Long and dull General Conferences
8) Invasion of privacy by home teachers
9) Visiting teaching, including visiting "inactives"
10) "Every member a missionary"
11) Looking down on non-members
12) Missions - including lack of communication with those on missions, and worrying about their safety
13) Trying to explain North American Indian genetics and polygamy to classmates, or avoiding the topic
14) Arrogance of male members over females due to priesthood special authority
15) Temple weirdness - rumors about what goes on with no explanation by adult authorities
16) Worrying about obeying the little voice of the "Spirit" at the risk of getting in a horrible accident if I failed to interpret it correctly, by going down the wrong street, talking to the wrong person, etc.
17) Having others use the "Spirit" and what it told them to manipulate me
18) Worrying the world would come to an end soon due to Mormon prophets' words of doom over the years
19) Uncertainty whether sex was ok to talk about and what are safe boundaries
20) Being told non-members aren't safe, especially for dating
21) Being told to look down on ex-member family
22) Having to try to make excuses for racism
23) Being told to "Praise the Man" when the Man was a sexual predator who married 30+ wives
24) Guilt trips to clean the stinky building
Things I'm grateful for now:
1) Freedom on Sundays, especially going for walks instead of sitting inside a boring, stinky building
2) Freedom of thought
3) Freedom in so many ways it is hard to count
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/29/2015 02:44PM by raiku.