I, too, was indoctrinated (or may I say brainwashed) to be a Moron (oops, Mormon). It was in my late twenties that I did my research and discovered that the LDS church was NOT true. I asked my bishop to prove me wrong, and he arranged to have me excommunicated. Excommunication turns out to be the best thing the Moron church ever did for me. It did, however, ruin my family. My Moron wife, on the day that I was excommunicated, took our two children and disappeared. Soon after that, I was served with divorce papers. I am now remarried and living happily ever after as a non-Moron.

If you had of stayed with them you could have your own planet after you die.

That's true for almost all religions.

Like someone said, an evil cult hiding in plain sight.

I feel so sorry for the kids born into mormonism and are not happy about it after growing up and learning better. I've talked with lots of ex-mormons who have struggled out of the faith.

I understand how they indoctrinate the youth upwards, and how it's so hard to leave, but I still wonder what would make a grown man in his 60's suddenly join the mormon church.

My ex-husband, atheist all through adulthood, became a mormon this past summer, baptism in Utah and all, and our kids and I can't understand why. We can only guess that he hopes to marry the lady friend he started seeing while we were still married - 15 years ago - or maybe a friend of hers. We just shake our heads in wonder.

He can do whatever he wants - but he'd better leave our kids and grandkids alone and not try to convert them. Crazy.

I wonder what the stats are for people that jettison religion entirely vs those that convert to another denomination thinking they've found truth with that one. And then there are the "seekers" who have converted multiple times. How long before they put them all in the same category?

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