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I read a longish article in Bloomberg News about this study. They mentioned the breakdown of organized religion as a contributing factor to the sense of alienation that undereducated white people are feeling. They used to believe that despite (or because of) their trials, they were going to heaven. ...

Be careful. They will come over without asking. Voice of experience.

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Tue Jan 10, 2017 12:25 pm

New Horder Mormon? Is that someone who goes overboard with food storage and ends up with a 30 year supply of wheat, or someone who saves every church magazine for 50 years?

I think my mother-in-law is both of these people...

Oh boy are you all glad you didn't catch the tail end of the new youth program. You would've had the same topic (like the plan of salvation every February) for a whole month, the same month each year. Youth SS was the same topic, with the scriptural works correlated to fit the topic. That's when my...

My nephew is getting married this summer. This is the first Mormon experience in my family since we left the church. My brother knows we're out and was expecting us not to attend the temple ceremony, but I hadn't talked to my mom too deeply about it. So I kind of slipped it into a phone conversation...

Did you know that out in the real world you can "tithe" to any charity you want? I think that's been the best part about leaving the church. Now our 10% goes to the homeless shelter, Habitat for Humanity, places that will actually do good with it. We have a family meeting once a year to talk about w...

This thread got me thinking. If you're a woman your answers are pretty much going to be RS, YW, or primary. The end. Oops, I forgot Den Mother. I helped my husband as membership clerk when we were young marrieds with a pretty progressive bishop. It never occurred to me that I couldn't go along and ...

Paying more for health insurance premiums than your mortgage payment and realizing that nothing is actually covered.

MoPag, thanks for that summary, depressing though it was. I'm still trying to forgive myself for being so complicit in my own degradation for so many years. Your explanation made me feel better.

Similar situation - nephew is getting married this summer. My family knows of my disaffection but not really how far out I am because I still attend and have a calling. I do not, however, have a TR because I no longer pay tithing (among other reasons) and I'm not going to jump through hoops to get o...

Deep breaths Korihor. You will survive.

In my experience the liberal turn predated the faith crisis. I started thinking more compassionately about social issues and then realized my religion wasn't keeping up.

Dang man, I wish I knew you in real life. You've got guts and you've got brains. And I love your description of watching conference. We only watched Sunday morning and my kids would only join in because I made sweet rolls. Now I make sweet rolls for the Thanksgiving parade instead. ;) Keep on with t...

Hooray for gingers!

It's wonderful to hear from you! DH and I are in a similar position to yours. We have three college kids who are all happily out of the church. I still attend because we have the most magnificent choir director in the world and I wouldn't give up singing with him for anything. But none of us believe...

Have you ever been in a large group of people who were all focused on the same thing? Yesterday's women's marches come to mind, but it could be something as trivial as a concert or a sporting event. You feel excited, exalted, you feel a sense of kinship with others around you. This is God to me. The...

DH's grandfather was a GA before they started paying them, and their family of six children really had some struggles. Grandpa wrote a ton of books to help support his family. So the stipend was really a blessing for them. That said, I hate that the church is denying that these stipends come from ti...

And the people who are rods can hold the priesthood.

Welcome!

This is part of what led to my disbelief. It's not right that there are people who are trapped in bodies that don't work, who may very well only have one chance at life and this is what they get. We have a girl in our ward with profound cerebral palsy. She can hear and see but can't even move her he...

Okay, So I'm weird. I actually like wearing them. I did try not wearing them for a while, but regular undies always give me wedgies. I never get wedgies with garms. Also it's nice to have an extra layer between my bra underwire and my boobs. Random underwire boob jabs are not fun. I did buy a spool...