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... 

The church does real harm, but Mormons will ignore it for the sake of following the prophet.

I'm heartbroken, distressed, and feel emotionally exhausted every time there is a push to try and bring Mormon church abuses to light, but then nothing substantial changes. The church does real harm. It's so frustrating. 😢😢😢

It also makes me feel unsafe.

This kind of thing (the recent focus on the mishandling of sexual abuse by the church) makes me realize how much more important the organization of the church is to Mormons than the actual suffering of human beings. Following the prophet is more important than anything else, even when prophets are wrong and causing irreparable harm.

Prophets can be wrong! It's a fact!

That obedience to an organization is such a huge part of some people's lives that to acknowledge the pain it causes is a bridge too far, and that's terrifying to me.

It's terrifying and culty to see that human suffering has to be dismissed by good people in order to hold their beliefs together.

Can I phone a friend??

 

I recently had a friend make a post about leaving the church and it's making me relive the hell that was trying to leave.

Cults don't let you leave with dignity. That's one of the many reasons why I think Mormonism is a cult.

I should have been free to leave the church with the support of people who love me and who would understand that I did not find the behavior of the "prophets" at all acceptable.

Instead, I was told that I was being influenced by the devil, that I was not trustworthy, that I was a disappointment, that I used to be respected, and on and on about how sad I was making people.

Oh, and that I REALLY shouldn't talk about why I left!

For the answer to the question in the picture, here's a hint: It's the answer you would expect from any man-made religion that matches the normal human patterns that have existed for centuries... Not the one I expected from "the one true church", and one of many reasons why I resigned from Mormonism.