Reply To: Cults – the aftermath

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@Strega – well here’s a clue for you of what the Mormons are all about for example. When one of my best childhood friends got married in the Mormon church (about 15 years ago now), I was not “allowed” to attend the ceremony, and the family was not allowed to discuss what happens in the ceremony. I was ONLY allowed to attend the reception afterwards. So I was definitely treated as an outsider simply because I wasn’t “one of them.”

You remember the person who initially turned me on to Think Atheist? Yep. That was his sister…and that was when I started to learn about what they believed. I even went as far as talking to missionaries to see about joining, but…I just could not stoop to that level of ignorance no matter how hard I tried. It would have been nice because in many ways it’s very easy to become part of a community when you’re in the Mormon church. But I’ll trade a sense of strong community for having my faculties in tact any day.