Dear ex-theists

[Bad Writer]

I'm an ex-Mormon, and the first big one for me was finding out just by reading through it a few times (while I was a missionary, no less) that the Book of Mormon was more or less a bastardized plagiarism of the Bible. You can probably surmise where things went from there.

What stopped you just saying "well the bible was sort of right, but the Book of Mormon is a superior version" or something like that to rationalise it?

I had already rationalized that the BoM was a piece of elaborate fiction, and Mormons are raised to distrust the Bible and to use the Book of Mormon as its crutch for doctrines that don't make a lot of sense. When the Book of Mormon fell, so did the Bible, in my eyes. My initial justifications for disbelieving evolved over time to what they are now. I'm now of the opinion that the Bible is just as fictitious as the Lord of the Rings.

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I was at church and I passed out.. the priest brought me in the back where I woke up with my pants undone. .. ha. J.k. . it was when I actually read the bible..

Cute.

What religion were you?

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Born catholic...forced to participate in all of their stupid-assed rituals. When I was 11 an incident in a Sunday school class caused me to re-evaluate religious personnel.

It was all downhill from there. It is not a creed which can withstand close study.

I don't know if I've asked you yet what the "incident" was, but I can think of a few scenarios when we are talking about the Catholic Church, and most of those are unsavory.

On another note, what are your thoughts concerning the new Pope potty-mouth?