I'm tired of genuine expressions of pain being labeled as "hate"

It's culty to silence people who talk about why they left the church. People should be able to talk about the ways the church caused them pain and trauma.

This focus on keeping it all "positive" and spreading "peace" is impossible when there is real harm done by the church.

It is not "hate" or "being anti-Mormon" to tell real stories and express real pain!

When you hear a Mormon say that someone is spreading "hate" or being really "anti", that probably means they heard someone talk about real pain caused by the church, but they just don't want to hear it.

For most of us who leave, we realllllly want to be heard! Just to be heard! That's all. We don't have to agree. We don't have to believe the same things.

But so many of us never even get to talk because we are told we are being hateful, that we are deceived, or that we are attacking someone's faith by expressing our own pain...