Tipping Point

[Anonymous]

Thanks Roy. I especially like:

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Reality can be nihilisticly depressing. I believe in hope. I believe in purpose. I believe in meaning. I believe in goodness. I believe that the best things from our human existence should go forward and continue in some form. These things make my life more fulfilling and so I hold onto them – even though they are assumptions that may or may not correlate to “reality”.

I had to look up the word nihilistic.

It is interesting how our situations & experience may be different leading us through our FC.

But, the conclusions at the end can be very similar.

[Anonymous]

I think my tipping point started many years ago. One of my children was abused by a ward member. We ended up moving away from that ward.

Nothing was ever resolved the person got away with it.

One of my children was unable to serve a mission because of poor health. The Bishop wouldn’t not accept this. He told us if we had faith my child would serve a mission.

My child still has the health issues. Faith didn’t not take the health problem away.

[Anonymous]

Interesting thread. First, I want to share my husband’s tipping point. It was actually when Paul Dunn was exposed for his fabricated stories. My husband had really admired, respected, and loved Paul Dunn. Even though my husband had an intellectual testimony of the church, he never got the spiritual witness promised in the Book of Mormon by Moroni. Therefore he relied too much on Paul Dunn’s testimony. When PD was exposed, it hit him like a Mack Truck. He said, “I will no longer rely on anyone elses testimony. If a man like PD can fabricate his spiritual experiences, how do I know Joseph Smith did not fabricate his. Until I recieve a spiritual witness from God, I will not go back to church.”

For me, the tipping point was two fold; 1) Learning about the true history of Polygamy/Polyandry and the disgusting things JS and other church leaders did and said about this issue. 2). Was that we were chastened for questioning and doubting….there is a third issue but I blame that more on my husband. He equated the church with God and so never turned down any calling. He was in med school at the time, which was hard enough on our family, but spending so much time away from me and the kids with very time consuming callings, was too hard on our family. We do miss some of the teachings of the church and hope they are still true.

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