mypostmormonlife: November 2009

Monday, November 30, 2009

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Sunday, November 29, 2009

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Friday, November 27, 2009

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Monday, November 23, 2009

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Saturday, November 21, 2009

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I am an average male who was born into the Mormon Church. I was baptized at age 8 by my next door neighbor in Fresno, California in 1951. He later became my stake president who sent me on my mission. My father never became a member, but he allowed my member mother to take me and my brother to church. Since it was a fun place with friends, I went and fully embraced the church. Instead of going on a mission at age 19, I had to wait 2 more years to talk my father into allowing me to go. My mother was the sparkplug here challenging him until he relented. I went to Uruguay, South America, from September 1964 to December 1966, with the first 3 months at the Language Training Mission in Provo. I worked very hard and baptized 35 people in two years. I returned home and continued my education at BYU, and I was married in the Oakland temple on semester break in January, 1969. I did mainly pharmaceutical sales for the next 35 years while raising 4 beautiful children, all born in the covenant. My oldest daughter got married, and they began being challenged in their ward in Washington State by less than truthful members. She and her husband and 4 children returned to Fresno, California, in 2004 to start over. They have both gone on to complete their educations, and they both have very lucrative jobs now. But early on after their arrival she and I had a conversation in which I asked her to share with me some of her feelings and discoveries that led her out of the church. She showed me a few web sites with the proviso that “this will lead you out as well if you study them”. Since I have always had an insatiable curiosity, I began seeing what was out there. My personal “Aha!” moment came one night in December of 2005 when I was reading the story of Bishop Simon Southerton of Australia in which he discovered quite innocently that DNA proved the Native Americans emigrated from Asia and NOT Jerusalem. I really did not know what to do with this new information. I was the executive secretary in a Spanish branch in Fresno at the time. I began to recognize for the first time the extreme personal control exercised by church leaders, control over every aspect of our lives in their attempt to maintain righteousness and personal purity. Not knowing what to do, I continued attending services until March, 2006, when the following happened.

There was a bright light personality in the branch who was not afraid to express his ideas, and they were interesting and entertaining. But being on the inside with the branch presidency I knew that they detested him because he was not under their control as a “good” member should be. His public statements were not defamatory, just different sometimes. He had a strong testimony, but he wished some things could be different, and he was not afraid to say so in public. One fast and testimony Sunday morning, he stood up and announced that in his opinion we could do without Sacrament meeting because everything we really needed to know was found in the temple ceremony. His statement was not intended to be inflammatory, just an offhanded statement of what if. The branch president became totally unglued! He met privately with him that week and announced he could not participate in any meetings for 6 months until he had fully repented. Then during the following Sunday Sacrament meeting he publicly reviewed this decision in front of all present. This brother was totally crushed in every way. I recognized how capricious, arbitrary, and political this became as I witnessed his public humiliation. But the final corker for me was later that same Sunday when I entered the president’s office to discover the president and his two counselors slapping each other on the back and exulting how they had “finally” shut up this troublemaker! Now it was my time to become unglued, and I told them how wrong they all were to judge this man. I was furious, walked out and never went back. Fortifying my resolve was my private knowledge that the Book of Mormon was a fraud, and that by leaving I was not really jeopardizing my future spirituality because the Mormons had it all wrong anyway!

Still after all that it took over another year and a half until I had the nerve to remove my name from the records of the church. All told I have one child still active along with my mother who is 88 now. My ex wife (I asked for a divorce in the summer of 2007) and three of the four children and their families and I have all left the fold. I was living in a hot apartment in Fresno in the summer of 2008, when I remembered how beautiful it was in the state on Montana. I had gone white water rafting in Missoula in 1979, and I fell in love with this beautiful state. So I moved here to Bozeman in July of this year, 2008. It has been the best move I have ever made! In this blog I will talk more about these issues and how there can be a wonderful life post Mormon!

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Monday, November 30, 2009

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Sunday, November 29, 2009

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Friday, November 27, 2009

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