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An ex-Mormon responds to the assertion that apostates are "looking for an excuse to leave the LDS church."

So, you know better than everyone else and when we tell you that you were misinformed on LDS doctrine you defend all the crazy beliefs you think represent LDS doctrine. Look, admit that you were looking to leave the church and looking for excuses to leave and now you seemed to dig some excuses together.

First, most of what we talk about here in this forum is never discussed in church because it is not mainstream doctrine. So it you grew up hearing about all the things you claim are LDS doctrine which aren't then I am sorry that you were exposed to people who speculated on what LDS doctrine was and speculated on what soandso [sic] apostle said once.

You know, this is really pretty insulting. I left the church a year ago for a combination of reasons (doctrine, history, Biblical incompatibility) and it was heart-wrenching for me to have to make that decision, because I loved the church and the people in it. I still have many good LDS friends. I shed a lot of tears making that decision. and it certainly didn't come from the attitude of "looking for an excuse" to leave. I was looking for any good reason to stay! And I know this is true for many, many others who have left the church.

You say many of the issues here are not discussed in church. This is true, because a lot of issues discussed here are historical teachings/issues that the church doesn't like to talk about. Like the fact that a supposed prophet of God would teach a heresy (so-called by even another prophet of the church) like Adam/God for 20+ years. Plus, all the other bizarre teachings, especially on race, that were supposedly in effect for eternity. How does that make Brigham a prophet, when he was so wrong about so many things? Even the practice of polygamy was supposedly a requirement to get into the CK, according to him. Yet, the LDS Church manual on Brigham Young doesn't even mention that he was a polygamist. I have heard the excuse that the manual focused on his teachings, not his personal life. Well, his teachings included a lot of very strong proclamations about polygamy, like the above. Polygamy was definitely a teaching of the church and the early prophets, and yet, now those teachings are ignored as if they never existed. How can you claim to "know" that Brigham or Joseph or John Taylor or any of the early prophets were really prophets and then ignore some of their very "core" teachings??

And that is just the very tiny tip of the iceberg, in regards to problems with this church. There are some basic teachings about the nature of God that, alone, should be enough for anyone to start questioning the credibility of this church, if they are at all interested in the Biblical teachings of Christ. I found myself buried under a mountain of doubt, after really investigating church doctrine and church history...and getting myself more familiar with the Bible. It was too much. I finally came out from under all of that and embraced Jesus Christ alone, which is all we really need. I was sad to leave the church. Very sad...but, relieved and happy to find my Savior in the process.

I hope that you will not be offended by this letter, because I love the LDS people, I really do. But, I love them enough to have to speak the truth about the church. The LDS church is a lie from top to bottom. I pray that you and all of my LDS friends will see that for yourselves one day. -Marsha Bette, 2008

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