Posted by:
Elder Berry
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Date: January 17, 2017 07:15AM
summer Wrote:
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> EB, if you are referring to this post by oooo:
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http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,1926918It was.
> So good luck to him with that.
He might be looking for an easily reducible answer to the questions he has about his Mormonism. That all disbelievers who were once believers feel persecuted for their disbelief and can't get over it fits the bill.
It is when a Mormon can personally identify with a former Mormon when the trouble happens. The Mormon might see the manipulation, stifling myths, and inhumanity of the organization.
The church trades in social networking and some social welfare in return for devotion and money. It isn't hard for this kid to see that, but the overinflated value of Mormonism to Mormons is a hard thing to see.
Much easier to label former members as jaded axe grinders with desires to cry over spent tithing and social networking gone bad.