I have friends and family who are LDS who find it difficult
to understand how I could lose my belief in Joseph Smith and the LDS church
after having been a missionary, Elder’s Quorum President, and having lived and
believed in it all my life. I have had
some requests to discuss my beliefs with others. I thought that a blog might be a better Idea
since it takes a lot of effort to get my thoughts written out. If I just got my thoughts out on a blog where
it can be viewed by whoever wants to see it I could just do it once.
The truth is that I like discussing theology. It was a fairly traumatic for me to lose my
faith. I find it helps me to discuss
things with others. I do like having
respectful discussions about faith issues, even with people with whom I
completely disagree. I think when we
have those discussions, we all end up better.
We understand each other better even if we don’t change anyone’s
mind.
My goal is to be non-confrontational and simply state my
reasons for thinking the way I do. I like to hear what others think and how they make sense of life as well. I apologize
in advance if anything I say comes off as judgmental or disparaging. That is not my intention.
