Mormon, Now Atheist, Will I ever Rehabilitate?

[rexbeccarox]

Welcome from Carlsbad, el

Cromwell, you would think so, but it most certainly isn't. I wish! You should see the Mormon temple on the I-5 in La Jolla... it's incredible (incredibly ugly).

[amadon]

Everything that I was, everyone that I knew, and everything that I did was mormon. How do I find non-mormon friends and find a new community to identify with? Will this emptiness go away? I love science, but I no longer hold a relationship with my fellow humans because the only ones I knew were mormon but they now think I'm an anti-christ and I have now succombed to some form of evil doctrine. I don't have too many people I can identify with and chat over a cup of coffee or go on hikes with. I am still friends with mormons and I love them dearly, but I am seeking for friendships that I can identify with and wont be afraid to ask the big questions and who love science as much as I do. I want to talk about physics and quantum theory! I want to have real discussions!

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IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED EVOLUTION
You can love science and still enjoy the knowledge of God and the universe. I am not here to save you or anyone else. No one is lost so how can they be saved. If people understood those who created the bible they could better understand life. As evolutionary beings, we have grown, developed or evolved from the very beginning. Think of a child going off to school and about the forth grade he gets a set of books and then he is told, these are the last books you will ever receive as we have no books of higher education. Those who wrote the bible had only developed to a very low stage.
Google Moses and you will find that he was born around 1570. Now ask Google when the Hebrews first had a written language. They will tell you it was the 10th century B.C. Now I ask you, How did Moses write the first 5 books of the bible if they had no written language. Would God have sent Moses down the mountain with tablets of the ten commandments if no one could read them?? Ask Google if Mount Sinai was ever an active volcano and it will tell you that it was. Ancient man worshiped everything that he feared, he feared everything he didn't understand and he understood very little. While the Hebrews at the foot of the mountain there was a great earthquake and then and there Yahweh was born. In 680 BC the Hebrews totally rewrote their history and destroyed the scrolls that they had at that time. They wrote everything up to make themselves , Gods chosen people and they wrote what ever they needed to trace themselves back to Adam and Eve. What they didn't know was that Adam and Eve were on earth 35thousand years before but they wrote the bible as though it had only been a short time before. I am going to stop for now but I remain ready willing and able to answer any question you may want answers to concerning God and his huge and wonderful universe. Amadon

[Phatt Matt s]

Everything that I was, everyone that I knew, and everything that I did was mormon. How do I find non-mormon friends and find a new community to identify with? Will this emptiness go away? I love science, but I no longer hold a relationship with my fellow humans because the only ones I knew were mormon but they now think I'm an anti-christ and I have now succombed to some form of evil doctrine. I don't have too many people I can identify with and chat over a cup of coffee or go on hikes with. I am still friends with mormons and I love them dearly, but I am seeking for friendships that I can identify with and wont be afraid to ask the big questions and who love science as much as I do. I want to talk about physics and quantum theory! I want to have real discussions!

Dude that is so sad! THe transition must be harsh! You're not alone. Many of us are having to break out of being indoctrinated. People who have been Religiously molded and indoctrinated are in the same category as those who have been raised in abusive households. It will affect them for the rest of their lives in some form or another but can also become a source of healing, insight, and strength.

[Clueless Morgan]

Welcome from Carlsbad, el

Cromwell, you would think so, but it most certainly isn't. I wish! You should see the Mormon temple on the I-5 in La Jolla... it's incredible (incredibly ugly).

You can see the one in Portland from I-5, too! Maybe that's their strategy: put their temples along major interstate freeways on the off chance someone will swing through and want to be baptized.

HEY!! Drive through baptisms!!

Damn it! I just googled it. It's already a thing.

[LivingNumbers6.626]

Welcome from Carlsbad, el

Cromwell, you would think so, but it most certainly isn't. I wish! You should see the Mormon temple on the I-5 in La Jolla... it's incredible (incredibly ugly).

Haha! Yeah I used to think it was such a majestic sight, though still aesthetically pleasing, it's just a reminder of all the lies and terrible memories and vain efforts.

Thank you for your warm welcome, I'm in El Cajon, did you already know that? Haha. May I ask you a question, though incredibly silly? What do atheists do for fun down here in SD? I've spent twenty years spending time with mormons, so I'm clueless.