Mormon411: No Longer A Mormon!

Friday, November 15, 2013

No Longer A Mormon!

I am pleased to announce that today, after procrastinating it for far too long, I mailed my official resignation letter to the LDS church.

To all of my readers who have not yet resigned, why not do it now?

http://www.mormonresignation.com/

This website gives a brief but informative overview of the resignation process and what you can expect.

I will be blogging every step of this process, you can be sure.

9 comments:

Brad said...: Congratulations!!!; November 15, 2013 at 4:53 PM
Heather said...: Oh My Lord!!!! So thrilled!!!!!!!!!!!!
I remember the day I got mine. I thought I was going to be sad, regretful, or have some other "let down" emotion. I read my letter and thought...."huh"

I filed it away and rarely think about it.

Good for you!=); November 18, 2013 at 11:42 AM
Mormon411 said...: Thanks guys. Now that I've sent in my letter (receipt confirmed by certified mail), I am not looking forward to the visits and phone calls that are most likely coming.

Yea, Heather, it seems I have moved on of sorts. I've had no desire to blog now for several months. I'm just ready to have it over.

I'm expecting to receive mine in a month or two.; November 18, 2013 at 2:49 PM
Heather said...: I hope you continue to blog at least occationally. You have been a huge help for me and will be for others... So THANK YOU!

I doubt you'll get much love bombing. But if you do it's just material for the blog:); November 18, 2013 at 7:55 PM
Mormon411 said...: Thanks Heather,

I really appreciate hearing that I've made a difference. That's my whole purpose and it means a lot.

Oh you can bet your buttons I'll be blogging about everything they do or don't do!

And yes, I'll try to put up something at least once a month. I have a friend with a pretty good story and I'm trying to get him to write it down and send it to me.; November 20, 2013 at 8:12 PM
Unknown said...: Congrats

And good job on the blog it cracks a smile every time i read a brand knew one :); November 30, 2013 at 11:31 PM
Mark Hill said...: Md
Nov 3, 2013

I have been following your blog for a while. I am fourteen and recently became atheist 5 weeks ago. I was a mormon and am still active. I want to leave but I can't tell my parents. They're super orthodox and make up these crazy theories in support of the church but reject sound ones against it. For example, my dad was saying yesterday that the reason they haven't found BOM evidence is because stuff decays and breaks down. I wanted so bad to tell him how scientifically wrong and delusional he was, but I didn't. Sorry for the tangent, but last week in Sunday school our teacher asked why we have good feeling for doing something right. I told him is was a release of dopamine because the only way early man could survive was in groups. He ignorantly like many leaders said it could also be the spirit. WTF! I would like to send you my deconversion story later, but I just wanted to share this link on cults. Everything in it I immedialty saw in Mormonism. I can't believe I ever believed this stuff. Anyway here's the link
http://www.prem-rawat-talk.org/forum/uploads/CultCharacteristics.htm; December 5, 2013 at 11:02 PM
Mark Hill said...: Sorry about the typo at the top, I copied at date with my reply; December 5, 2013 at 11:04 PM
Mormon411 said...: Jed,

Thanks! Glad you enjoy it!

Mark,

One of the things I have discovered is that people will believe and defend their "truth" no matter what evidence is presented to them. You are certainly a bright young man! At age 14 I was head-over-heels for the church with no inkling of doubt. It might be difficult for you to "come out" as an un-believer. It was hard for me. That is when you will find out who your true friends really are. Just remember that you can't live your life to please everyone else, especially pretending to believe their myths and fairy tales.

I would be very interested in reading your story and would even love to publish it here, with your permission, of course.

Yes, it's amazing how the church fits the description of a cult. It's almost as if the term was defined from Mormonism!

Good luck and please let me know how things go for you.; December 9, 2013 at 7:38 PM

Quotes & Thoughts

New Rule: Churches don't get to offer their commentary on political matters until they start paying taxes!
"...reading the Bible is what has made me an Atheist." ~ The Citizen Atheist
Faith is just gullibility. ~ The Atheist Experience
Don't teach creationism in my school and I won't preach evolution in your church!
In your fiction book, your fiction god did a fiction miracle and that's all the proof you need!
"It's called FAITH because it is not KNOWLEDGE" ~ Christopher Hitchens
"...faith, by definition, is believing in things without evidence and, personally, I don't do that because I'm not an idiot." ~Kate Smurthwaite
"If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people." ~House
"Developing a critical mind and having your own view of the world takes education, reflection and time. Having faith is much easier. People prefer to be deceived." ~Michael Shermer
"It's hard to free fools from the chains they revere." ~ Voltaire
"Just because you don't understand something, it doesn't mean it's wrong." Arthur, Sword in the Stone
A diety who remains silent and invisible should not be angry or surprised when its existance is doubted.
Intelligent Design: Because it's so much easier to just invent an answer.
99% of people who DENY evolution can't even DEFINE it!
If money is the root of all evil, why do churches want it?
The Bible was written by the same people who said the earth was flat.
When you don't see the truth, it's easy to accept the illusion.
What most anti-evolution supporters don’t realize is that to nearly anyone educated in biological sciences, an anti-evolution world view today is almost equal to holding a position that the Earth is flat, and the sun revolves around the Earth.
There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.
"Does religion work? It brings some of us solace, impels some to do good (and others to fly planes into buildings), and buttresses the same moral truths embraced by atheists, but does it help us better understand our world or our universe? Hardly." ~ USA Today
Mormonism is enforced religion.
"What's so merciful about a god who punishes Adam and Eve and all of their descendants over a stupid piece of fruit?" ~ Khalid Thalib
"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for a reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed" ~ Albert Einstein
Isn't it ironic that both you and your god hate the same things?
"Santa Claus never asked for 10% and I still got everything I wanted. And I wasn't good all the time either. I paid the Mormon church 10% and got zip." ~ Let Go
"For god was such a cowardly chicken shit, that he had to send someone else to do the hard stuff." Mormon411
"The good thing about Atheists is they wont knock on your door and they wont blow you up!" ~ Bumper Sticker
"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." ~ Stephen Roberts
"You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?" ~ Dan Barker, Losing Faith in Faith
"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet." ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
"Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned." ~ Unknown
"To the simple mind everything can be explained with one three letter word." ~ Michael Pain
"The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion." ~John Adams, 2nd President of the United States
A watered down long island iced tea: $7.00. A lap dance from your favorite girl: $20.00. Feeling absolutely no guilt for any of it: Priceless!
"I have a hard time with historians, because historians idolize the truth." ~ Boyd K. Packer
"...if God told us to brush our teeth with mud I would do it." ~ Anon TBM
Some of you are probably thinking, "Why don't you just leave them (the Mormons) alone?" So I ask you, if you saw a thirsty man drinking water from a well you knew to be poisoned, would you let him continue to drink or would you guide him to a safe well? ~ Christopher Miller
"Just as you can always tell sea water because it tastes salty, you can always recognize enlightenment because it tastes like freedom." ~ The Buddah
"What have I got to lose? My family? No. They are already gone. They were gone as soon as I was gone from their "family oriented" church." ~ ex-Mormon
"He (Joseph Smith) may get drunk every day of his life, sleep with his neighbor's wife every night, run horses and gamble... but the doctrine he has produced will save you and me and the whole world." ~ Will Jarvis
"My most painful Mormon experience was learning that having faith in something does not necessarily make it true." ~ Anon
"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction." ~Richard Dawkins
"If a faith will not bear to be investigated; if its preachers and professors are afraid to have it examined, their foundation must be very weak." ~George Albert Smith
Prayer: How to do nothing and still think you're helping.
"Being an atheist means you've been able to see through the social pressure, black balling, guilt trips, propaganda, threats against your eternal soul, etc. and be a rational person in an otherwise irrational age. We think that's something to be proud of." ~The Arrogant Atheist
"Every member a missionary? Every member a revenue generator" ~Brian, ex-Mormon
"I love god. He's so deliciously evil!" ~Stewie Griffin
"We met in a little place called the MTC... If you don't know what the MTC is, then you're not cool." ~April Fenn, LDS church member
"This is our most devastating problem... retention." ~Sister "Nana" Barker, LDS Missionary
"Each of us has to face the matter—either the Church is true, or it is a fraud. There is no middle ground. It is the Church and kingdom of God, or it is nothing." ~Gordon B. Hinckley
What's the difference between a teenager and a Mormon? Eventually the teenager will realize that he doesn't know everything.
"How we treat others is a measure of what we think of ourselves" ~Sharon Bower
Atheists have morals too.
If complexity necessitates a creator, wouldn't our creator also need a creator?
Santa Clause is to children as Jesus Christ is to adults.
"If you are truly searching for the truth, then you must be prepared to admit that you don't already have it." ~Myself as a former LDS missionary
"It's impossible to reach good conclusions with bad information...We're all entitled to our own opinions, but none of us can afford to be wrong in our facts." ~Mort Crim
"...it's not a lie if you believe it." ~George Castanza