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Posted by: pharmamarm ( )
Date: December 08, 2010 09:05PM
my friend knows more exmos than mos

Today I was chatting with my classmate and I mentioned that my family was mormon but I'm not anymore. She had always assumed I was LDS (lived in UT, things friends on my facebook said to me who don't know I've resigned, etc), and was surprised to hear I was an exmormon. She was like, I know so many people who are exmormons, but I don't know any mormons! (This is on the East coast). So she knew plenty of the LDS church's dirty details. Ha!

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Posted by: Fetal Deity ( )
Date: December 10, 2010 03:39AM
That's not too surprising.

I've read about census surveys from countries where respondents are asked to self-identify in terms of religious affiliation. According to these counts, far fewer than half of those considered "members" by the Mormon church self-identify as Mormon.

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Posted by: RPackham ( )
Date: December 10, 2010 11:15AM
Re: That's not too surprising.

Fetal Deity Wrote:
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> I've read about census surveys from countries
> where respondents are asked to self-identify in
> terms of religious affiliation. According to these
> counts, far fewer than half of those considered
> "members" by the Mormon church self-identify as
> Mormon.

See "How many exmormons are there?" at http://packham.n4m.org/morexmos.htm for a summary of that information.

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Posted by: mormon411 ( )
Date: December 10, 2010 04:21AM
Re: my friend knows more exmos than mos

Even right here in SLC, I run into ex-Mormons all the time. I think everyone would be amazed if they knew exactly how many exmos are running around out there.

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Posted by: Zeno Lorea ( )
Date: December 10, 2010 04:32AM
Maybe we need a sort of National Coming Out Day ;) (n/t)


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Posted by: Makurosu ( )
Date: December 10, 2010 11:22AM
That's how it is for me.

I live on the east coast, and I don't know any Mormons. I know several ex-Mormons though. Another thing, I knew very few ex-Mormons when I was a Mormon, but they seemed to come out of the woodwork after I left the Church. Hmm. Also, Mormons are so clannish that once you leave their sphere of influence, it's like they don't even exist. That's nice for decent people everywhere.

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Posted by: pharmamarm ( )
Date: December 10, 2010 11:29AM
Re: That's how it is for me.

I thought I wouldn't find any mormons once I moved to a new area and didn't go to church, but I was mistaken. I live in an apartment building with like 10 other mormon families- 2 of them live NEXT DOOR to me. But they are cool. I don't have problems with mormons really, just their church.

I agree with Zeno Lorea- we need a coming out day. I'd love to know who is in my area.

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