A one-liner that captures your disaffection

[FiveFingerMnemonic]

I'm no longer church-broke

[wtfluff]

Forgot about this one:

"I'm allergic to Fake Green Silk."

[DPRoberts]

I outgrew it.

[deacon blues]

Is this a time and place where we can rationally and critically, YES CRITICALLY, discuss the truth claims of the Church? If not when and where?

This is something I dreamed last night. I dreamed I was saying it in a F&T meeting.

[Reuben]

I don't need your kings.

[Newme]

I know the church isn’t true in many ways - and is evil in some ways.

Take the best, leave the rest.

[Newme]

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

I like that. It’s similar to “I outgrew the cult.”
General authorities are substitutes for parental authorities.

[DPRoberts]

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

I like that. It’s similar to “I outgrew the cult.”
General authorities are substitutes for parental authorities.

Parental substitutes they were for me, particularly as I lost my parents earlier than most. And when I knew GAs were not inspired it felt like losing another parent, though less intense. That is one thing i outgrew. I also outgrew magical thinking, small-mindedness, religious elitism, judgemental thinking, and the need to think I know what, if anything, follows this life and how to control the outcome. I outgrew the need for certainty.

My three word one-liner has very deep meaning for me because I feel that my growth was inhibited in so many ways by TSCC. I could come up with a great deal more one-liners, but "I outgrew it" encapsulates a great quantity of meaning for someone who has experienced that growth.

[Angel]

Heirarchy with middlemen vs. God is no respecter of persons.

Dogmatic mob mentality vs personal relashionship with God.

Follow the leader, vs follow your conscience.

[stuck]

If God is an unchanging God, why does the church change so much?

[Red Ryder]

Parental substitutes they were for me, particularly as I lost my parents earlier than most. And when I knew GAs were not inspired it felt like losing another parent, though less intense. That is one thing i outgrew. I also outgrew magical thinking, small-mindedness, religious elitism, judgemental thinking, and the need to think I know what, if anything, follows this life and how to control the outcome. I outgrew the need for certainty.

My three word one-liner has very deep meaning for me because I feel that my growth was inhibited in so many ways by TSCC. I could come up with a great deal more one-liners, but "I outgrew it" encapsulates a great quantity of meaning for someone who has experienced that growth.

I’ve never considered the idea of GA’s as substitute parents before. It really fits in some circumstances and even the idea that HF/church were pushed as such. Now you have my head spinning.

Perhaps “I grew up!” works too.

[Keewon]

Perhaps “I grew up!” works too.

Or, paraphrasing Paul: "When I grew up I put away childish things"

[2bizE]

I can’t believe I actually believed all that crap.

[Evil_Bert]

Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.

No matter what I do, it isn't changing. Why bash my head against the wall.

[Nonny]

I realized that the values of the top leadership of the church don’t align with mine.

[Apologeticsislying]

It's not mine, but it's very good

I found out I am not having a faith crisis, the church is having a truth crisis.

[ulmite]

I cannot support a power structure that treats my gay sister like crap.

[GoodBoy]

I care about the truth.

[Ghost]

I guess mine might be something like this: "How disappointing to discover that not only religion but absolutely everything appears to be made-up nonsense."

[DPRoberts]

I cannot devote my life to an organization I find to be neither true nor truthful.

I cannot fit reality inside the church's box.

With a nod to Hermey: What's good about Mormonism isn't unique and what's unique isn't good.

I found blind obedience to be incompatible with personal progression.