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Date: May 13, 2013 08:47AM
Quick backstory: My family and I recently moved back into the ward we lived in when I came out of the closet as a non-believer first to my wife and then to the bishop. At the time my wife thought I was as TBM as they come. I’d served a mission, served in a bishopric at a young age, HP group leadership, and was now in the young mens presidency. We moved from the ward and neighborhood just a short distance away. During our two year hiatus from the ward both my wife and I stopped wearing garments, paying tithing, and attending church each week. In fact up until yesterday I hadn’t been to church in about three months, maybe longer for my wife, we can’t remember. In the last couple of weeks my brother living in CA found this site, deduced that I Seneca was his brother and told me he and his wife are separating themselves from the church (way to go). So as you can imagine church yesterday was almost unbearable. My two kids are a little hyperactive so sacrament meeting was spent shushing and whispering mild threats to my children. Sunday school was both fun and sad. The lesson topic was tithing so watching the instructor weave a delicate little path through that minefield was entertaining. Listening to the members claim to “know” blessings they had received were the direct result of tithing wrapped up in a neat faith promoting package was very sad. HPG was extremely entertaining. My HPG is comprised mostly of older men (60+) with a couple of 30 something’s thrown in for good measure. This leads to things like fascinating debates over the possibility of Satan having altruistic intent when the lesson topic was dealing with hardships. I’m not sure how we got there but the comedic value was off the charts. Overall it was fun to see old friends and to laugh in my head at the really useless and weird conversations people were having. I will probably become semi-active for the social aspect of church and nothing else.