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date: 2025-11-08
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description: "A brief retelling of my experience leaving the Mormon faith."
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image: ""
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lastmod: 2025-11-08
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showTableOfContents: false
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tags: ["religion", "life"]
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title: "Why I Let Go of the Rod"
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type: "post"
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## First Nephi
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I recognize it's important to establish some things before heading out any further because the audience I could be
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reaching is extremely broad. So, before I get in to tell my tall tale, lets clear the air so I don't run the risk of
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losing anyone along the way.
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- As of the time of writing, it is commonly held preference not say Mormons, and instead say members of the Church of
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Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
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- I'm not writing this to persuade anyone. This is my story. If you feel attacked or validated by my experience, I am
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going to put that onus on you, the reader, to draw what conclusions you deem appropriate.
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- My motivation to write this is to have something thought out and prepared when people ask why I left. This request
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typically comes from friends and family still a part of the faith, which I always appreciate. Your brain is left
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whirling a bit when you leave the Church, so hopefully this can clarify things for both of us.
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- If you the reader don't know much about the (more commonly recognized) "Mormon" faith, then this post may be hard
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to follow. It will waste no time explaining concepts and assume the reader is familiar with the doctrines, history,
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and positions of the church. I will do my best to delineate between commonly held **facts** and my _opinions_ cite my
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sources.
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- If you the reader take issue with how I've portrayed things, please reach out! I mean it. There's no real way to
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express this through rendered HTML on your lit array of pixels, but its true. I feel strongly it is important to always
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keep these conversations open.
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_Hopefully_ I haven't lost you, dear reader, and I want to thank you in advance for any of the effort you take to
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understand and empathize with me. You keep my faith in humanity <3
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So, without further ado, lets "begin at the very beginning"
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## "Born of goodly parents"
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I grew up in a loving home with parents that did their best to give us five kids a great life. I'm the middle kid, the
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glue you might say *smirk. My involvement in the church informed much of my life. My friends were typically the boys in
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my ward's Sunday school class or in my boy scout troop. My views of the world were most entirely shaped by my religion.
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I remember feeling immense privilege and dread thinking that I happened to live in the neighborhood of the family that
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