When your whole family is trapped in it, yes it is impossible to completely get away from it.

When you grow up mormon, there's no way to go back and grow up some other way.

In my opinion, you can't be raised in the morg and indoctrinated for a lifetime, and then just simply walk away as if never happened. Everything you do & see will be influenced in some way by your background.

That's true of any major life experience.

To paraphrase George Harrison:

Mormonism goes on, within you and without you.

Cue sitar.

Uh, no....ain't no Mormonism left in me...and there wasn't much to begin with.

RB

well, you are very lucky, LR

I feel that I did not have as much indoctrination as a lot of you on this board I have read about, but I did turn to Mormonism in my late teens thinking I had found the emotional stability and answers to life's questions that I had been seeking.

The opening of the gigantic rotting can of lies of Mormonism left me rocking and then, when hit with fact after fact that came rolling in, it did not take long for the rocking to stop and for my life, as I had supposed it would be, to shatter.

I have resigned, but I do think a small part of this pain and anger will always be with me, especially until those I love break free of the cult. Who knows, maybe then I will be able to say I have left the Cult of Mormonism completely and entirely behind me.



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I also like the tribe analogy to describe Mormonism because it's really a subculture more than a religion. Even if you leave the church, but have family members still in, you're still exposed to the culture.