Davis County Ex-Mormon No Meetup Sunday July 6, 2025

The inauthentic Mormon character arises because we try to comply with how we think we should behave towards others, rather than just honestly learning to be ourselves. Church leaders demonstrate a willingness to make free with our lives. The most valuable things we possess are threatened. We give our time to church attendance and to service and our money to tithing. We feel guilty for exploring our own unique personal choices about career, family, lifestyle, instead of a “one size fits all” conformity.
Mormon indoctrination is harmful to children because it is fundamentally shaming their personality by associating doubt or disobedience with disloyalty, weakness, faithlessness, sinfulness, and therefore unworthiness. It shames young people for their natural developing desires for sexual pleasure, as being bad, shameful, or inappropriate. However, if successfully overcoming religious barriers, we discover one of the transcendent experiences of joy, or ecstasy, is the experience of escape from expectations, the deep realization that we are okay just as we are and reawakening to one’s own worth and beauty.

The Full Invitation with extended comments No Meetup