I grew up Mormon but I didn’t agree with the sexism, racism, and homophobia/transphobia that was inherent and/or actively taught in the church.
I was disowned by family, and my entire social network shunned me. There is no teaching in the mormon church to shun like that, but it scratches their cognitive dissonance to be around exmormons so they do it so they can feel good. From their perspective I was just an emissary of Satan so they feel good because they resisted Satan. I ended up being homeless for a bit.
My family tried to get me to come back. They offered to let me come back home if I came back to church. But I never went back home or to the mormon church. Home doesn’t have strings attached and I couldn’t be part of such a hateful religion.
I grew up Mormon but I didn’t agree with the sexism, racism, and homophobia/transphobia that was inherent and/or actively taught in the church.
I was disowned by family, and my entire social network shunned me. There is no teaching in the mormon church to shun like that, but it scratches their cognitive dissonance to be around exmormons so they do it so they can feel good. From their perspective I was just an emissary of Satan so they feel good because they resisted Satan. I ended up being homeless for a bit.
My family tried to get me to come back. They offered to let me come back home if I came back to church. But I never went back home or to the mormon church. Home doesn’t have strings attached and I couldn’t be part of such a hateful religion.