Posted on 06/07/2007 10:30:24 AM PDT by colorcountry
Former Mormons find support on Web site The Associated Press Article Last Updated: 06/07/2007 10:13:00 AM MDT
Posted: 7:51 AM- IDAHO FALLS - A manager of an online support community for former Latter-day Saints says the number of visitors to the site has grown dramatically. Jeff Ricks is executive manager of www.postmormon.org. He says the site gets 120,000 hits a day, up from 50 a day five years ago. He says about three million people visited the site last month. He recently put up a billboard outside the eastern Idaho city of Idaho Falls to promote the site. There are 15 chapters of the group located around the world, including Australia. There are no chapters in Idaho, but Ricks says one could be started within several months.
Hmm...
*Rimshot*
Once again demonstrating that so many of those who leave the Church are unable to leave it alone.
No doubt. It is a demanding religion. Those I know who have left have left because they weren’t willing to live the moral rules, or pay tithing. The justifications based on disagreements with doctrine came later.
Apostate Muslims tend to be the most knowledgeable and vocal in highlighting the dangers of Islamic theology. Same deal here and that’s a good thing.
Malarky. We are not a threat to anyone. People keep trying to compare us to Muslims to scare the ignorant, but one of the tenets of our faith is being subject to governments, secular or not. Another tenet is respecting everyone’s right to worship as they please, including those that don’t agree with us. Muslims believe in supplanting secular governments with Sharia law, and in coercing people to convert. Those are the beliefs that are the direct cause of the violence we are experiencing now.
Ex-Mormons just can’t leave it alone because they have to spend the rest of their life proving to themselves that they were brilliant to leave and that we are stupid to stay.
I left Mormonism myself (joined a baptist church afterwards) for the theological reasons. Once I learned about Mormon teachings on Eternal Progression, I had to stop and think about whether or not I really believed that. I discovered I didn’t, so it no longer made sense for me to be a part of a church that I disagreed with on some of their core theology.
Hallelujah! Welcome home, brother.
Thanks James!
So it isn’t like suggested here by some, that you left in order to lead a sinful lifestyle?
Do you ever try to lie about what the LDS Church taught you, as has also been alluded to?
Have you ever been told “you can leave the Church, but you can’t leave it alone, like another poster suggested?”
I appears that these could be attempts at villify those who might choose to leave the Church instead of honestly disscussing relevant issues. It seems that this can often the case.
Used to be you'd get burned at the stake for apostasy, so that's progress I suppose. ;)
Well, except for those wacky Muslims - they chop your head off...
And it appears, after looking over the post-mormon website, that it is mostly full of attempts to vilify their former religion and beliefs, rather than honestly discussing relevant issues.
And I stand by my earlier statement. Many who leave the Church are incapable of leaving it alone.
That’s not vilification. That’s pointing out an obvious, if curious, behavior.
That’s probably true of some.
Some are genuinely turned off by the beliefs and practices.
Fine.
I used to be Catholic, but when I left the Catholic Church I didn’t spend all my time in ex-Catholic websites or support groups, discussing how much I dislike the Catholic Church (which, in all honesty, I don’t dislike).
At some point, one needs to move on. Focus on the future, and quit griping about the past.
But your purpose is obvious.
And Fire Breathing Wacko Fundamentalists. Those guys are a real pain. :^D
Sure...all those hijackings, terrorist incidents, and beheadings by those awful Mormons sure do make them dangerous. What?
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