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Your journey has been so fascinating to me. I completely understand the hurt. I also understand your situation. You are very positive and you seem to have a lot of love for people, including those in the LDS community. Maybe you won't agree with this, but i see you as a way of God reaching out to all your viewers, and especially your Mormon ones, to not complicate things with man made religion and just follow the command to love one another, as Jesus has taught. Thanks for the entertaining videos and i wish you all of the happiness and good will. Take care

Once you have the tools it is easy to see the man made bullshit of religion. Most Christian’s didn’t know how the Bible came to be or why is or isn’t in it. The more I studied the Bible the more I realized it was created by man, just like the BoM. Just a few centuries apart. That’s it!!!

I left the church in 2015 and I immediately became an atheist. I pretty much deconstructed the Mormon church and Christianity at the same time. The concept of omnibenevolent and omnipotent god is absurd to me. I'm finally free to live my life as I please.

Freemasons believe in God!

Truly saddens us that so many become atheist. We are ex mormons, but are Christians in our own way. We do not belong to organized religion, but our belief in Christ will never falter. The Bible has been proven true. I’ve had so many prayers answered, some immediate and some not. Why even exist if there is not a God, our Creator. We do not know all the mysteries of God, but if one stays on their knees long enough and truly prays in faith it will be given to you that God does exist and that Christ died for our sins, took the wrath meant for us, and He was raised on the 3rd day. When we left the mormon religion a few years ago, we did a lot of research ourselves. Months later,I was praying and asking forgiveness for my sins and I felt the most awesome peace enter me that I’ve ever felt in my life. This will stay with me always. I read the Bible regularly now and I see how the thread of Christ is woven thru it from beginning to end. One of my favorite books is the prophet Daniel and he foretold of the very day Christ would ride in to Jerusalem on a donkey. The world is wicked and run by Satan, so to not be prayerful to help us return to Heaven, and only thru Jesus Christ, will leave us empty. Jesus warned us many times of hell more than He did Heaven. None of us are good, we have a sinful nature and nothing we do can return us to heaven, except the pureness of Christ. I still think of the time wasted in the mormon religion, but I know I was being molded for my time now. That is what I’m thankful for. I hope this helps someone.

As for bishops having sex with bride, before groom, where it came from Google jus primae noctis

Well said.

Too bad that you made the (very common) mistake of equating religion with faith in God. One of the most toxic effects of the false religion of Mormonism is EXACTLY as you stated -- you applied the same critical thinking skills and research that led you out of Mormonism to the rest of religion as a whole and it turns out that Mormonism isn't actually all that different from hundreds of other religions when you start looking at the big picture. I'm sure that is true. What does that have to do with faith in God? AND btw - just because you've reached a conclusion does NOT mean that you are not vulnerable to being (or have been) bamboozled .... just sayin' It would be interesting if you would interview ex-mo's who left BECAUSE they came to true faith in the True Jesus and the God of The Bible. But I have to wonder if, at your current level of resistance to any form of faith (other than faith in atheism), you would tolerate that discussion ... or even want to consider it -- if only out of curiosity. Btw -- any ex-mo who has not found (or has rejected) faith in God is in the same boat as any other person who has not found (or has rejected) faith in God . Christians are instructed to preach the good news to all the world -- regardless of how it is received. You may be "tired" of hearing it, but a Christian does not have the option to cease proclaiming it. There is a bright side to it (well not exactly, but ... ) -- once you die, you'll never have to hear it again. I think that I can pretty much guarantee that one -- 🙂 Until then, have fun explaining why the breath you just took contains 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen -- as did every breath you took to make this video, and every breath you took for the rest of the day, and every breath you took earlier that day, and last year, and every breath you took for the first 10 days of your life. .. and every breath that everyone in the entire world for the past several thousand years has taken. Why is it that breathable air of this planet just happens to contain 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen -- for several thousand years. Why should breathable air constantly contain 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen for thousands of years. Please -- take a deep breath, then explain.

Lex, I'm so very thankful to you for your videos! I have been researching this, thank you so much! I am out!!! No more Mormon BS for me, no more religion, period! I saved this video to listen again, and I'll be taking notes regarding all your sources. I hope you know just how much you've helped so many!

Appreciate your honesty. I didn't come out of Mormonism but evangelical Christianity about 25 years ago. I didn't embrace atheism, however, but saw a divine fingerprint in eastern thought and Greek philosophy and finally landed upon pantheism. I found it answered a lot of questions for me me but I know it's not for everybody.

As an exmo, after 42 years of strong testimony in the teachings of the LDS Church, where i often bore my testimony, how I knew Heavenly Father loved me, that I knew families could be eternal, that small and simple things were evidence of the love of God and Jesus... I find it immeasurably relieving and joyful to bask in not knowing. I'll be pleased if I find out God, Jesus, and Heaven are real. But if i don't, I'll find the joy and sacredness of life itself every day. And if I'd be punished for not understanding something or taking it only on faith when so many of the principles are bent into harmful practices, that's not a God I'd worship anyway.

Have you applied the same critical thinking skills to atheism? You would have to be able to explain how the universe was created and all life within it without God (Intelligent Design) directing it. How did living entities come from nonliving matter? How did consciousness evolve? There are hundreds of thousands of factors and events that had to develop precisely for life to exist. For example, the universe is expanding at a precise rate that must itself continue to increase. I cannot believe that all of these events happened precisely right by random chance because the probability of that occurring is infinitesimally small. Read “The Language of God” by Dr. Francis S. Collins (former head of the human genome mapping project) for a brief look at this problem.

Jesus is the bath water. Mormonism is just murkier bath water.

Thanks Lex. I’m a Christian and always wondered why so many ex mos and ex JWs come out of the cult as atheists. I appreciate the explanation.

You are nothing but Fools

I had a friend reach out to me after he heard that I'd walked away from our shared faith. I don't know what part of "I have no intention of going back" he didn't understand, or why "I don't feel comfortable fully participating, so.... Why bother?" was confusing.....

Mormonism ruins God and Jesus because the canon is so different from the rest of Christian unterpretation of God Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

Yes Satan is real. So is God. And u will find out when u die. Hopefully before. The LDS church deceived u, not GOD. Don't let Satan win.

Left around 2004 at age 32.

There is a difference between organized religion and believing in a higher power .Organized religion is man's best attempts to understand God. It's fine if you don't believe in either one, but there is a difference.

Wow. From previous vids, I thought you were an exmo that turned to Nicene Creed Protestantism. Regardless, I learned a lot about LDS teachings from your vids. Hope you consider doing a vid that focuses on the specific questions you raised that led to deconstruction. Stay skeptical and cheers.

I think that for me, becoming aware of all of the deceptions in the church (misrepresentation of early church history, lack of transparency about former and current practices, etc) caused me to lose all trust in anyone who claims to speak for God, all the way back to the writers of the New Testament Gospels. The church also establishes in the minds of its members the concept of a singular "true" church, and does a fairly good job of deconstructing other religions; realizing that the "true church" is a sham becomes the last step in deconstructing religion entirely, since the church already deconstructed the rest of it for us. I ultimately don't think that it's impossible that some form of diety exists, but I don't trust anyone who claims to speak for or represent such a diety. If there is a God, he'll need to come down from heaven and tell me himself what he wants before I'll base my life decisions on it.

Oh a complete side note I just want to say you look so gorgeous! I love the necklace, hair and lace cardigan xx

How much would it cost to get you to critique a video of mine How much would it cost in 30 minutes or 1 hour fon "phone" call

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Cause once you deconstruct yourself from a high demand religion like mormonism, you've done your dues. It takes a long time, consideration and gradual untangling. There are similar threads to all religions that become untangled in the process. Also, just cause an afterlife and a God is comforting 'News' doesn't de facto make it a reality.

Well said! Digging deep to root out the damage caused by mormon beliefs typically results in realizing their god is false. Healing from mormonism doesn't require replacing Elohim with Bible God.

I stopped believing in God when I lost my cat and there was no reasonable explanation for why such a traumatic event happened. Then I realized that many traumatic things happen and have happened over thousands of years and if God was real, he should have intervened long ago.

I'm nevermo, but the problems christian scriptures are the same as the issues with the claims of the BoM. Plus so much of the BoM IS the christian scriptures. Paul is a liar and no one knows who wrote the gospels or why...throw out Paul and the gospels, the christian church has nothing.

Didn’t grow up in the church and that was part of the problem. They never fully expected me. I prayed so hard for GOD to help me and NOT people and all that happened was he brought the Mormons and the witnesses into my life over and over again. I became an atheist for four years and then for some reason, looked up at the full moon and started praying to Kaguya and then to Artemis and they brought Sun Wukong and Guan Yin in to my life and I have been so happy having deities who actually care about me.

Yep, in your story you have confirmed the Pendulum Effect. You ascertained through reason that Mormonism is a false theology because it is based on a historically fictional foundation. So therefore, you acertained the theological belief foundation under you was also an illusion. The problem with your logic of dismissing Christianity as also not true is faulty. Christianity is built on a totally different theological foundation than Mormonism. Most Mormons do not understand this. The fundamental Chistological nature of God is diametrically opposed to the Mormon definition of God. The historicity of events in the gospels can be verified by secular academia as well as many central people, but that is secondary, I only mention that as contrast as everything in Mormon books is historical fiction. Anyone who was brainwashed into believing the fantastical and bizarre historical and theological claims of Mormonism, and then wakes up, is like a drug addict going cold turkey. You go from drugs to absolutely no drugs. Mormoism is probably the best example of a religion held together by confirmation bias. A bunch of people living in the high desert of the western US for the last 150 years, believing that a testimony of a troubled treasure digger from a 170 years ago supersedes existing foundational theological principles uniformily established 2000 years ago. Nutty people, but nice people

For me, I already went to Catholic school and largely studied other religions at some point. I already knew if I wasn't Mormon, I was going to be atheist...or at least agnostic. Nothing else seemed to have any kind of answers at all, all while pretending to. Atheism was honest enough to not pretend to have answers, and Mormonism seemed to have all the answers. I knew I wasn't going to trust decentralized, near authority-less religions, and to this day I'm still an advocate for organization if it's true. After what God did, I realized either none of it was true, or I'd have to reject the truth altogether because it is ruined at best, evil at worst...ironically these arguments were used in the Chronicles of Narnia to dissuade the characters back to Jesus...I mean Aslan.

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I’d been struggling financially for years and years before I left the Mormon cult. I felt like God was going to bless me for finally recognizing I was in a cult. He didn’t. He didn’t care that I was trapped in a cult, and he wasn’t proud of me for getting out of it. If there is a god, he doesn’t love me.

Formally leaving the mormon church was incredibly freeing and cathartic for me - and it is great to be made aware of other people that feel the same way. Thanks for sharing your story and best wishes to anyone who is struggling with coming out of the faith.

Mormon Jesus was out, Christian Jesus was never an option because I had deconstructed him on my mission.

"We have done our homework." PERIOD. And yes, we're tired of being bugged about it. For me, I left the LDS Church and God at the same time because my problem was with God specifically, that lack of morality of God, the narcissism, the counter-evidence of promises in scripture being untrue. I knew anywhere else I'd go, God would still "be there" so to speak, and I wanted nothing to do with that. Only after I left (years later, actually) did I start to learn the depth of the problems specific to the LDS Church.

Suggestion: If you don't wish to be bothered about religion, then stop making videos about religion. For me it's really simple, either Jesus died for my sins or he didn't. If he did, no amount of other people's bullshit is going to keep me out of heaven. If Jesus didn't die for my sins then nothing I do is going to change that fact either.

@Exmo Lex As a Christian I truly appreciate you answering this question honestly! To my fellow Christians the best thing we can do is just take a step back & listen to what our exmo friends are telling us. When someone asks, then answer them appropriately and with kindness...

My therapist told me that a lot of the time people with daddy issues tend to have a worse relationship with Christianity and more specifically god. This makes so much sense to me.

I feel like 2010-ish was a pivotal period for exmos fate. I find that Mormons who left prior to 2010 often join other religions, whereas those who leave after 2010 seem to go agnostic. I feel like the Internet and the "Google era" may have something to do with this pattern. Those who left before Google found comfort in other faiths, but those who left after Google find comfort in.... well, Google. Agree? Disagree?

I stopped believing because if there was a god nobody deserves the bad as much as I have endured. I think our lives are just random chances of having good ones and bad ones. My life is like one shitty hand of poker.

For me it was the spiritual witness. If I had a spiritual witness the church is true and that was false, how can I believe any spiritual witness? And once you take out that “faith” component well there’s not a lot of proof god exists. So yea I threw the baby out too because the baby turned out to be a doll.

I've seen this many times before. Anything new? Try harder please 😂

It's amazing how quickly it all collapsed; religion, god, swept away like grains of sand.

I left 2018 and was in my 40s.

This is absolutely perfect.

Why do Satanist like myself used to be start believing in god?

The Mormon church farms people. They send the young men on a two year mission. During this they are sexually restricted. When the men return they jump into Molly Mormon's waiting arms and quickly produce a lot of children. Then they are locked into a 10% tithe for life.

When I left Mormonism, I became an agnostic (rather than an atheist). I decided that there was no scientific evidence regarding the existence of a supreme being one way or the other. I think what kept me from being an atheist is a book I read when I was a child. My father died when I was quite young and my mother gave me a copy of Dr. Raymond Moody's book called "Life After Life". At that time, I still believed in God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit (although I must admit I had a really hard time wrapping my head around the Holy Spirit stuff I was taught). That book really cemented the fact that yes, there absolutely could be something after we die. Since that time I've read other books and have heard many Near Death experiences from people. These are people from all walks of life, from different cultures and religions, from different age groups, different educational levels. These people would tell doctors things they simply could NOT have known (because they were "dead"), the would recall the resuscitation efforts (complete with the correct names of instruments used--and very, very few of these people had any sort of medical training and would know the names of the instruments and the steps that would have been taken to save their lives). I also had heard stories from folks who work at Hospice about visitations and "angels" visiting patients (that were seen by medical professionals working at the care facility--not people usually given to flights of fancy and paranormal mumbo jumbo. I'd heard other paranormal stories--one I'll never forget. There was a tragic traffic accident and a young woman was killed. The accident happened late at night and her car was down a steep embankment. When first responders arrived at the scene and made it down to the car, they realized they would not be able to get her out and pull the car up the steep embankment at night--it would be too dangerous for rescuers. So they placed a tarp over the car and left--to come back when the sun was up and it was less dangerous for workers. When there were about a third of the way up the embankment, a voice cried "Help me. Please help me". They thought they had made a terrible mistake and that the young woman was still alive, so they hurried as best they could back down to the car. They re-checked and the young woman was, in fact, lifeless. They were getting ready to leave when the same voice said "I'm fine, help my baby". Baby? They hadn't seen a baby. So they shifted some things in the car's back seat and discovered an infant, barely clinging to life. Had they left the infant there over night, he (or she, I don't remember the baby's gender) would have died. These were fire fighters and paramedics, some attended church regularly, others considered themselves atheists. They said they all definitely heard the voice, they all said nothing like that had ever happened to them before (or since). I read things like that that simply cannot be explained and part of me allows for the possibility of a supreme being. What I am sure of is that most religion's concept of a supreme being is likely dead wrong. I am not certain we humans have the mental and intellectual capacity to understand a deity. I do know that the Christian concept that "God created man in his image" (of course God has to be a man, Christianity--all Christianity is extremely misogynistic), is just wrong. If God created man in his image, then God is just another human being--a powerful one (one with super powers, if you will, but nonetheless a human being), with all the flaws that come with being human--bigotry, intolerance, getting angry and taking revenge, etc. Not the kind of God I want to worship, really. I think it much more likely that humans cannot understand "God" (or whatever you want to call your supreme being) so they made "god" in THEIR image (not the other way around). So I consider myself an agnostic. I do not attend church. My husband and I had a brief flirtation with the Unitarian Church, but that didn't last long. We found it better, but still open to the corruption and issues faced by other organized religions--because of the very flawed human beings in the church and it didn't settle the question of "is there a god?" for either of us (my husband also is an agnostic). I am quite happy as an agnostic and if I want to talk to you about your religion, I'll ask, so please don't try to convert me. BTW, last time I asked about a religion, it was a very nice conversation. We have a wonderful friend who is of the Sikh religion. I realized I didn't really know anything about Sikhism. So I asked my friend what she believed and what the Sikh churches teach. We had a nice discussion--she was forthright with her answers, she answered my questions, but didn't feel the need to try to convert me. If that's the kind of religious talk you want to have, great. But if you're going to try to convert me, I'd just as soon you leave me be.