Deep Thoughts: Resigning from the Mormon Church

Monday, November 10, 2008

Resigning from the Mormon Church

I've had a few people ask how one resigns for the LDS church. Signing for Something has the information. Go ahead... You know you want to do it.

Resigning from the LDS church is not easy. Mormons are a closed society. Once you are in, it is very hard to get out. Exmormon.org has stories. They make for an interesting read.

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Patrick · 857 weeks ago

I've gone through this, and found "The Process" at http://mormonnomore.com to be invaluable.

I sent off a letter to the stake presidnet (stakes are LDS church administrative districts, for those not in the know), and a week later receieved a ward newsletter inviting me to a potluck and "Temple Night."

I then sent a second letter to the stake president, CC'ed to Member Records, informing them that I was not pleased at receiving the newsletter and politely demanding that they expedite my name removal.

They complied. Less than two weeks later, I had a letter in my hand informing me that I was no longer a memeber of the LDS church, and that I was now ineligible for their eternal health plan, but could enroll in Celestial COBRA at the rate of 10% of my inocme...

Okay, that last part was a lie, but I can't recommend mormonnomore.com more highly for those wishing to have their name removed.

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Patrick · 857 weeks ago

As to why one would care to be removed from the church's rolls, the reasons people may wish to do this are legion.

For me, the primary reason was that the Mormon church likes to claim it is the fastest growing religion, and numbers its adherents at over 12 million. This includes people in 3rd world countries duped into joining to receive humanitarian aid, but never attending a single service following their baptism. It includes people who grew up in the faith, but never participated as an adult. It includes (no joke) people who were baptized as children in exchange for baseball and pizza parties by overzealous missionaries looking to up their conversion rate (this is, gladly, now forbidden). How many of the 12,000,000 are actively religious Mormons? Who knows, but I guarantee you it's a hell of a lot less than 100%

I don't want the LDS church to be able to count me among the 12,000,000. Symbolic only? Perhaps. But nonetheless was something I felt I needed to do.

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anton · 857 weeks ago

There are many errors in the Book of Mormon but I prefer to quote D&C 134:12 (Doctrine and Covenants) and request that the missionaries handle this one. Quote "We believe it just to /preach the gospel to the nations of the earth and warn the righteous to save themselves from the corruption of the world

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anton · 857 weeks ago

(continued) of the world; but we do not believe it right to interfere with bond servants, neither preach the gospel to, nor baptize them contrary to the will and wish fo their masters, nor to meddle with or influence them in the least to cause them to be dissatisfied with their situations in this life, thereby jeopardizing the lives of men; such interference we believe to be unlawful and unjust, and dangersous to the pease of every goverment allowing human beings to be held in servitude.

What this all means is that for a long time, Mormons would not approach black people (slaves) and did not let them hold their "priesthood" until the mid 20th century. The Mormon church practices JIT (Just In Time) only they prefer to call it revelation from their God. They abandoned open polygamy in order to have Utah join the United States, only they call it a revelation from their God.

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