Losing Family To Religion

As an ex-Mormon, I have now officially lost my relationship with my entire Mormon family to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, because I learned the truth about their fraudulent history and false doctrines, and my family would not have me speak about it.

It is one thing in our society today to be told that we should respect the freedom of religion in this world. It is an entirely different thing when our freedom of religion keeps us from speaking out against religious injustice and fraud. And then it is totally insane that religions get to have a "right" to manipulate and indoctrinate their members into silencing anyone, from speaking out against their church.

Here is what Quorum of the Seventy's L. Whitney Clayton warned new graduates from BYU against.

"The faithless often promote themselves as the wise, who can rescue the rest of us from our naivete," Clayton said. "We should disconnect, immediately and completely, from listening to the proselytizing efforts of those who have lost their faith, and instead reconnect promptly with the holy spirit."
http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=3805769&itype=CMSID&page=2

For someone like me who are now totally gutted, distraught and heartbroken by my family’s relentless rejection of me concerning my efforts to speak about the deceit connected to their religion, it is totally disheartening. I feel that it is a cruel and utterly vindictive way to tear families apart that do not share or agree with the Mormon faith.

It is pure spite on their part. The authorities know they have more power over the members than the “apostates” who leave the church for doctrinal or historical reasons, because members are constantly being indoctrinated to avoid any resources that is contrary to what the church offers. Anything else will be of “Satan”.

To punish us even further, they must tear us from our loved ones, by warning our families to not listen to us, to shut us up if we want to talk about the church and if that does not help, to completely avoid us.

I have lost all my LDS friends and now even my family. They will not even consider that I am telling them the truth. They only believe the church, because of what they have been conditioned to believe over many years of indoctrination.

I am already alone after migrating from my birth country, but after losing my religion, I have no one left in my life, apart from my husband and five children, because my whole network revolved around the church for my entire life. My LDS friends and family love my suffering, because they believe it is what I deserve for badmouthing the church, I suppose. They have no empathy for me. They do not feel any hurt for losing me. They would rather lose me, than what they believe. It tears me up inside. All this showed me is how little love my family have for me. It just makes me hate them and the church so much more.

They do not understand that once a person has all the evidence pointing to the truth, you cannot make yourself believe something different. If all the evidence in a murder case points to a specific person, you cannot turn around and say, I am not sure about this, I will convict someone else instead. That would be denying the evidence and you will not be true to yourself or other people.

My whole outlook on life has changed since I discovered the truth. I do not have the same Mormon mindset as before that I used to judge the world by. I am more open-minded and tolerant in general. Except when it comes to injustice.

Since I feel that the church’s indoctrination of their members goes against humanity and everything I believe in, and I know how it can destroy relationships, I cannot tolerate it. It is wrong to manipulate and condition people into believing lies, despite the ruining of family relationships, just so that an organization can survive!

The church’s fight to protect themselves from losing members due to their deceit from the foundation of the church is selfish, greedy and unacceptable.

I just wish more people could see this injustice and stand up for what is right and true.