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Why can't people who leave the LDS church move on?

Cause they lame
 
FWIW, talking **** about those with different values/beliefs/behaviors is a central tenet of the Mormon faith. It's no surprise that ex-Mormons have trouble shaking it. Glass houses and all.
 
GVC said:
FWIW, talking **** about those with different values/beliefs/behaviors is a central tenet of the Mormon faith. It's no surprise that ex-Mormons have trouble shaking it. Glass houses and all.
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Agree with Archie. It's the culture, and not necessarily the beliefs. But the thing is with Mormonism, at least in the Utah Mormon religion, culture is not easily separated from the religion.
 
I think it probably depends on why the individual left the church and what their "new" beliefs are. I was raised mormon, baptized the whole bit, and just simply don't believe in any of it. I have no hard feelings towards mormons and actually think that as far as religions go they are generally pretty nice people. I think that people who leave for another sect of christianity may actually believe the church is evil.

I will say that every mormon family has that one middle aged woman that is so holier than though that half the people in the room(including and maybe most especially her immediate family)want to smack the living **** out of her. Other than that one, I'm cool.
 
Nate505 said:
just a theory with no evidence, but it seems the more dogmatic/strict and/or closed the religion is, the more people who leave it lash out against it.

for example I don't hear about too many former methodists lashing out against the church other than perhaps one or two policies they disagree with (like to allow gay ministers). same with the other mainstream protestant denominations.

I hear more lashing out from former catholics, muslims, and ldsers probably because they are both tired of the strictness, and because people they know who are still a part of the church pressure them more about it than say a methodist would

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This probably doubly true for religions that take a large financial bite out of believers.

The religions that seem to have the on-average angriest former members are LDS and Scientology.
 
I used to be religious but then some of my friends introduced me to Mountain Dew and Doritos and I became less and less religious. I have eventually grown a neckbeard and started wearing a fedora to match my Richard Dawkins screensaver because I lack a religion so much. The reason I hate religious people is because of fundie chicks keep rejecting me on dates. It is ok, I am euphoric not because of some phonee gods blessing but because I am enlightened by my own intelligence.
 
heyhey said:
I think it probably depends on why the individual left the church and what their "new" beliefs are. I was raised mormon, baptized the whole bit, and just simply don't believe in any of it. I have no hard feelings towards mormons and actually think that as far as religions go they are generally pretty nice people. I think that people who leave for another sect of christianity may actually believe the church is evil.

I will say that every mormon family has that one middle aged woman that is so holier than though that half the people in the room(including and maybe most especially her immediate family)want to smack the living **** out of her. Other than that one, I'm cool.
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In my family that woman keeps her mouth shut out of self preservation. Way to many type A personalities to get away with that.
 
Revolution 9 said:
I've moved on.

I respect people that i know that still follow it.
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This is me. I left a long time ago. I'll still defend the church to some degree, even though I'm not a part of it.
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The only problem I now have is my own family. After 20+ years of not going and not having anything to do with the church I still have to avoid certain topics around my parents because they are still trying to bring me back and get my wife to join (who is catholic by birth but treats her ex-church like I do). It would have been easier for me to forget it and move on had they left me alone about it. But a lot of families in the LDS faith see it as their failure if their children don't follow their beliefs.
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I had no desire to hate on their religion or their faith but they made that hard by continuing with pressure to come back. I occasionally in my younger days attacked their religion just to get them to drop it for a while. I did not nor do have any special hate for the LDS just a general non-interest until someone puts pressure on me to join. That holds true with any religion though.
 
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