Ex-LDS folks?

Question

How many hang out around here, and what are your current thoughts about relgion?

Me? I was born and raised LDS, now an atheist, but close with my LDS family and friends.

As an interesting aside... Yahoo suggested the LGBT section for this question, what's up with that? lol

Answer 1

I like you was born into an LDS family... I am Atheist... I am still very close to my family (as my long distance bill shows)...

My current thoughts on religion .... I see all religions are driven by fear.. Fear of the unknown, fear of death, fear of not belonging, etc. When all the window dressing is stripped away fear is the great motivator in all religions...

As for Yahoo suggesting LGBT section my guess would be it has something to do with using the acronym LDS..

Answer 2

I was born and raised in the church! I quit going because I smoked, and there were a lot of other things going on too!
It never had anything to do with the doctrine!
But since I have been on here, and I see the way the church is attacked all the time, the bashers, are beneath contempt! What kind of coward attacks some one else's religion? I thought we were here to exchange ideas, and faiths!
I keep in contact with my family that are still LDS! As for other religions, not LDS, and those that are non believers! Isay thise religions are two-faced, bigoted, and judgmental! They would not recognize Christ ( if there was a christ)if he walked up to them on the street!
They speak to Him with their mouth, but not with their heart!

Answer 3

I'm a current LDS, but I saw this and just wanted to say that's funny about the LGBT section lol!

Answer 4

I was born and raised LDS (aka mormon) and now I belong to no organized religion persay.
My spirituality leans towards the earth based things.

My family is all still faithful true blue LDS and they have no idea Ive left the church. When the time is right they will be told and our relationship will be more strained then it is now. Hopefully, for the sake of my kids, they will still talk to us and learn to accept how we feel.

Answer 5

I was LDS, but then I was walking in the woods one day, and I saw a couple of old White guys levitating in the air. They told me I was to start a new church. They wanted me to make shure that all the power in the church was to be had by other old white guys. I said Woah! that sounds F--ked up. So they started offering me multiple wives and stuff. I said I'm not a perv sorry. They insisted, so I finally said to them "Look, I'm not a white perv! I'm Half Mexican and only want one wife,damnit!" They said, "Oh, sorry we thought you were someone els."
Now I just think for myself. All religion sux.

Answer 6

My formative years became into especially extraordinary growing to be up as an LDS in UT. additionally i chanced on the burning interior the Bosom to be fake as quickly as I examined it to locate my eternal companion. I had no community of pals or family contributors so for me to leave became into rather common, I had no longer something to unfastened. My patriarticle blessing have been given me thinking whilst God blamed me for my sexual abuse, that became into the straw that broke the camels lower back basically. @Ammon your so humorous, i became right into a virgin as quickly as I married my husband. i'm not sure why Mormons think of that what we've been taught in thew LDS church will all right now disappear and we grow to be sinners all right now, Mormons might desire to heed the scripture that a new child by no potential forgets the direction their mothers and dads taught them!

Answer 7

My husband and I (we are both converts) talked once and we both realized that, if for some reason, we were to stop believing in the LDS church, we would stop being Christians. Not necessarily atheists, but not Christians.

Answer 8

It's a nice religion, it just isn't for me. The two main problems I have with Christianity in general is their beliefs about homosexuality, and their belief that women should submit to their husbands. Mormonism in particular is very traditional when it comes to family values. When I was going to that church I always felt like I was just expected to be a housewife/babymaker when I grew up, and I really didn't feel like that was the life I wanted to have. When I was 16 I actually had my Young women's teacher tell me that my only duty in life was to get married and have kids. That contradicts my personal beliefs because I believe that women shouldn't have to give up their careers to have a family, and when I was going to that church I felt like I was just expected to be dependent on my husband when I grew older instead of having a career myself, and that's not anything I could ever see myself doing. I think I'm just too much of a feminist to be Mormon

Answer 9

I was raised in the Mormon church.
At the age of 15 I stopped going and wandered from one denomination to another for years looking for what I felt to be true. I now attend a non denominational church, geared more to the Assemblies and am quite happy there.
I have an uncle and a friend who are still Mormons so I won't speak badly of the religion.
I believe we do need God in our lives. I believe that Jesus died for our sins and for me to live without believing, I shudder at the thought.
I respect your right to be an atheist but I wish you would search further before denouncing God.

Answer 10

I was once mormon for 36 years, then wiccan, then atheist and now I am saved. My family is basically mormon, but I have one saved brother and one atheist brother as well.