Comments on: Ensign Review, June 2013 by Stephen Livings.

By: Free to Think

Free to Think — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 17:30:07 +0000

Thanks Steve, I found your review enlightening and understand how the Guilt Trip is put upon parents if their children don’t live up the the criteria the ‘Mormon church demands. I dearly love my child who left the church in their teens, and is a credit to me and a decent, kind member of the human society, not one who I am ashamed of because he left the fold.

By: SteveL

SteveL — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 20:44:33 +0000

Thanks for your comments ‘Free toThink’. I understand exactly what you have been through, particularly the feeling that no-one really understands or has compassion for the pain of leaving that takes place or your reasons for doing so. I hope you found my post was a helpful read.
Thanks, Steve

By: Free toThink

Free toThink — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 15:03:06 +0000

According to this article, I am, as a sheep that has wandered. It has been two years since I left the LDS Church and I have no regrets. I didn’t leave the church because of sin in my life ; I left because I could no longer believe, support, or condone the doctrine, the policies, and the practices of the Mormon Church. Coming to terms with the history of Joseph Smith and the church,, discovering much of which has been covered up and distorted over the years, has been to say the least, a real journey of discovery, that what I believed to be true, was in fact a fabrication of a young man’s imagination. The church continues to use its tactics of dishonesty and lies, to convert people and deceive members.
Whereas, at one time I as a parent, and strong believer in the LDS faith, and lamented that my teen age son had left the church, I now have considerable heartache and sadness, for my other grown children, who continue to live in their Mormon delusion. They have little compassion for the pain I went through of find out the church wasn’t true and believe I am the one who is lost and apostate to the church.