This is kind of a follow up question to the "How old were you when you left" question.

It appears to me that the availability of the internet provided to all age groups may have more to do with a person leaving than their age.

While it was rough stone rolling that started me down the path, without the availability of information provided me by the internet, I may never have gotten out.


So what year did you leave the church? Did the internet facilitate your leaving the church?

I left officially in 2012. Started out in 2006. 25

Still on the records, but I am done. I am in my mid thirties and the actual "everything came crumbling down" happened for me in 2013. I'm a newb lol.

Started refusing to go in 1993. Was allowed to stop going in 1995. 2000 was the last time I ever set foot in one. Attempted to have my name removed in 2002 not knowing there was a process. Pressed the issue after discovering this site in 2009 and then finding my name was never removed. I got them to do it in the summer of 2009.

I was leaving before the internet was available but it allowed me to discover the process of having my name removed.

I stopped attending in about 1990-1991?

July 2001.

Spring of 1999

I stopped believing in 2008, officially left in 2010. The internet actually did not have anything to do with it - personal suffering and Orwell's 1984 were enough.

I think I went inactive in 2004 or the end of 2003 and resigned in 2010.

Got burned out in 1998 and went inactive but remained TBM, found out about MMM in 1999, googled "real mormon history" a few days later, realized it was a fraud a few days after that. Mailed my letter October 5, 2010 after watching that old POS Packer snear at "Why would he do that?" during his semi-annual hate speech in SLC.

I always knew that fuck would have something to do with me resigning.



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2013 at age 33. Thank you internet!

Officially resigned in 2002. Last time attended: April 1998.
Have attended some events but not on regular basis and mostly as a non member.

Stopped attending in 1997 not due to internet influence, but because church made me feel restless and like I was suffocating. I still believed in it, and hated myself for leaving. I thought if the church makes me feel so uncomfortable then I must be a horrible person.

Fast forward through a few years of beating myself up.

The year 2000. Better and faster internet access. Eventually discovered sites such as this one from which I learned that the problems were with the church, not with me. I quit beating myself up. My gut feeling years before had been to leave and turns out my gut was right all along. I resigned later that year after I found out from the internet that resigning was even an option.

Personal suffering--like rose above stated. Internet had absolutely nothing to do with my leaving.



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1999

Returned from my mission in 2000, graduated byu in 2003.

Went inactive 2003 due to intense suffering / mental health issues.

Became active again for a time 2004-05 ish. (social reasons)

2005 found out some disturbing things on the internet, but wasn't enough to break my shelf yet.

2006-2010 attended sporadically

2011 last time I set foot in a chapel (still had the thought in back of my mind that maybe i would go back in the distant future if I could work through my many issues)

2013 decided I was done with the church for good (internet was big part of this step)

1956 became an atheist
1959 went inactive
1994 resigned

Either late 1987 or early 1988 at 21, just a few months after getting home from my mission. I tried to be a cultural Mormon, but couldn't make myself do it.

2008

Due to unanswered prayers/lack of testimony. The internet was a source of information, once I realized that something was wrong and I wanted answers (and God didn't seem to be handing them out).

No internet, of course. There was info around if I wanted to find it, bit I left the church because I didn't agree with the doctrines and because I was tired of feeling unworthy over nothing. I left thinking the church might actually be true but I wanted nothing to do with it, eternal consequences be damned. Within six months I realized I didn't believe any of it and that I was actually an atheist -- and had been all my life.



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Became a disbeliever in 2005 based on information I obtained mostly on the Internet. Resigned and stopped attending in Jan 2013.

Learned the church was lying in 2007, quit attending in 2012, have not resigned.

I realized Mormon foundational claims are false in June 2009, stopped participating in September for good.

Decided resignation was necessary to make it clear I had moved on to friends, family, and church leaders in January 2011.

Stopped attending in 2010

I was an active lifetime member. Stopped believing early 2006. Resigned 2007 at age 63 and it ended a near 40 year marriage which really hurt.

It was a process. Started in 1983, finally out for good & forever in about 2001.

And took five kids with me. Our exit was driven by a year's worth of internet research in 2006.

;o)

2006 the lights came on. DNA evidence was instructive. The characters in the Book of Mormon are imaginary people.

Discovered the truth about TSCC and resigned all in 2012

1989 at age 18. I had uncovered past racist doctrine. At that point I didn't even care if the church had any truth to it or not... If all the racists were going to the highest level of heaven, I decided I wasn't going there, lol.

Stopped going in 2006, stopped believing in 2011, was on the fence most of the years in between. Could have used this board a lot earlier then that, but truthfully I was kind of scared to do so because I kind of knew I would find out the church was not true, and I was afraid that meant I would have to face my mortality.

I began questioning in 1982, had my big 'Ah ha!' moment in late 1984, completely disbelieved by 1987, slowly became inactive between 1996-2000, & became inactive at the end of 2000. I ended up going twice between 2001-2003, but not to any ward that my records were in. I haven't been able resign yet, unfortunately.