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The original was posted on /r/exmormon by /u/FreshLiterature6536 on 2026-04-25 02:11:05+00:00.

Hey everyone.

I've been slowly losing my faith for years, but in the past two weeks its accelerated to an almost complete state of decay. I've started shopping for other religions, as atheism is not an option for me. Honestly, its been an extremely distressing and demotivating experience. That being said, the gospel has been the single greatest source of meaning and comfort in my life. Even after all I've learned, I'm still trying to give it second-chances and am having a hard time walking away.

So I need your help, if you're willing. If/when I officially leave the church, I want to make sure its not something I feel doubt or shame or fear over. I want peace of mind, and the biggest thing stopping me from getting peace is the Book of Mormon. Now, I'm aware of its obvious issues, such as the convenient disappearance of the alleged plates (awfully convenient), the translation errors from the King James bible carrying over into the Book of Mormon (oops), and the litany of unsubstantiated anachronisms (barley? giant cities that "covered the face of the Earth" but are nowhere to be found a mere few centuries later?).

At the same time... there is a lot of stuff in Joseph Smith's corner. Several anachronisms have been supported with evidence, such as horses being used by Americans before Europeans arrived. Additionally, no historical analogue exists for the production of such a large and complicated book by means of dictation from memory in a single working draft. Every book of scripture in existence has been the work of decades of oral tradition being compiled after the death of the supposed prophet. The Bible (especially the Old but also the New Testament), the Qu'ran, the Talmud, the Vedas, even the Doctrine and Covenants... but the Book of Mormon is the only exception I am aware of. Even accounting for plagiarism (of which there are not any plausible source texts identified), it is an extremely impressive feat.

So, I'm at an impasse. I feel the scales are balanced evenly, and I'm looking for ways to tip the scales, so I can make peace with my decisions. I am obviously doing my own research... but frankly, its incredibly heavy, and therefore difficult to make progress. I get depressed just thinking about it.. If any of you notice things I've missed that helped you "wrest the scriptures" (as the ole book itself says), please share.

Ugh, the amount of apprehension I feel just typing this is so frustrating. Side tangent: I hate how we were raised that if you ever left the church you fell prey to the devil. Like Russel M. Nelson's quips about "without the Holy Ghost, you will be deceived!" So annoying, because now there's a little voice in my head saying "you're being deceived! the devil is taking you!" God, I hate this.

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The original was posted on /r/exmormon by /u/JayDaWawi on 2026-04-24 20:50:35+00:00.

I'm not a spiteful person; I try not to be, and I don't like being one. However, what the leadership is doing is making it hard to make me not despise them.

First and foremost, I'm sick of them treating faith and devotion as more important than data and people. When asked to demonstrate evidence for their claims, the only thing they can offer are "words from the heart" - and the thing literally every other religion attempts to provide as evidence: prayer. The problem is, prayer seems to be closer to a flawed random number generator than a divine form of communication. (I might need to make a post on the Miracle Sort algorithm at some point.) Unfortunately, the data seems to suggest that prayer is less reliable than random chance at determining truth.

Secondly, it's how the leaders treat questions and answers that really gets under my skin. If you ask an approved question, they'll give you the approved answer to assure you come to the approved conclusion. However, the instant you start asking unapproved questions, the "nice" facade falls off. "You just need faith." "You're just rejecting the truth in your unrighteousness." "Translation wasn't literal - but how dare you question when things are literal and things are metaphorical! That's my - I mean God's job!" "You just need to stop looking at porn." They never actually address the issues; they only accuse when people don't fall in line

Then there's the members. Some are genuinely good people that are willing to call the leaders out on their nonsense; others are painfully (for me) blissfully ignorant of core issue, while others are actively enabling harm. The members are so diverse, I'm not necessarily faulting all of them; however, there's still a part of me who wants everyone to leave.

Above all, I'm just frustrated by the blatant hypocrisy. They demand us to love our neighbors, then threaten everyone who disagrees with them. They say they aren't a cult, then get mad when people point out when they do cult-like things. They claim they're prophets, seers, and revelators, but I haven't seen them even attempt to prophecy, "seer", or revelate anything in decades.

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The original was posted on /r/exmormon by /u/FatboySmith2000 on 2026-04-24 22:30:52+00:00.

Here you go!!

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73209567/intellectual-reserve-inc-v-open-stories-foundation/

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The original was posted on /r/exmormon by /u/notgr33n on 2026-04-24 18:41:00+00:00.

I couldn't let myself think about this for too long when I was a member, but when I was a missionary one of my recent converts got sick with like the flu or something. I gave them a priesthood blessing and said that they would be healed and the next day they fucking died. I thought the reason they didn't get healed was because the day I gave the blessing I got a boner when a beautiful woman walked by.

This is incredibly fucked up but now that I'm not a member it just cracks me up. Is that wrong? Eh, I don't care I'm going to mormon hell anyways.

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The original was posted on /r/exmormon by /u/Square_Walrus6724 on 2026-04-24 17:36:45+00:00.

“God called the exact right prophet for our day.”

Oaks - Lawyer to protect the Constitution and church trademarks

Nelson - Doctor to save us in the pandemic

Monson - Marketing guy to spread the gospel

Hinkley - Also Marketing guy to spread the gospel

That’s really nice for the church, but maybe God should consider calling a prophet with a background in THEOLOGY?? Maybe social work? Something religious?

There are millions of lawyers and doctors and marketing guys who can handle that stuff. But only one true church and one prophet that speaks directly to God. Wouldn’t “the right prophet” for ALL ERAS be someone who understands the basics of religion?

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The original was posted on /r/exmormon by /u/Songbreeze1 on 2026-04-24 17:26:14+00:00.

I made the mistake of taking a job that has a lot of mormon influence in it and I hate it. I hate thinking about it, I hate interacting with them because they are so condescending and gun-ho about teaching me about a religion that I spent most of my life in. I knew living in Idaho and Utah with all those mormons was bad, I didn't realize how bad, and now I feel like I owe all of you an apology. From an exmo, who did not grow up in either of those states.

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The original was posted on /r/exmormon by /u/Sad_Employment7300 on 2026-04-24 14:06:34+00:00.

Since I've learned in my mission abou the church stuff, I've been looking for advices and well... I can say that the advices from this subs have been helping me. About a few months thinking, I've just decided to talk to President to send me home.

While I'm waiting for the interview, I've got a new comp. The most part of time we "get along" well, of course he doesn't know my beliefs( or the lacking of it) about the church. But there is a thing annoying me a lot. He is really TBM and believes in the church. As part of the indoctrination, missionaries have a controled and restricted routine. Since I've had my faith crisis, I don't care anymore about studying the scriptures or listening BYU speeches. I'm just trying to practice my language skills and studying math (I like it).

You might know about how a mission   can suck and fuck the mental health up. My comp doesn't have any will to work anymore. He's constantly using his phone or wanting to do nothing. He told me he wasn't felling well and asked for help to follow the missionary daily schedule and I agreed with it (because I thought it would make him feel better). Even not believing anymore, I agreed to do it.

But everytime I've tried to do those things he asked me, he refused beacuse he wasn't tired or at least it was what he said. I would be with this, because I know how the mission is.

What really is making me get pissed off is because he is complaining ALL THE DAY about how bad I'm using my cellphone (because I'm using it to study) and how bad missionaries we are and blaming me for not help him. Like, you're not doing the shit you want to and it's MY FAULT even though I've tried to do?

I don't know exactly what to do. It's just helping me to see how cultist the church really is. Sorry for this, I think I'm not at my best stage right know

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The original was posted on /r/exmormon by /u/OCDCowboy1 on 2026-04-24 13:52:30+00:00.

BYU president says 91% of 2026 graduates saw faith strengthened.

I’m sure all the BYU students were 100% honest in their answers because they were 100% confident that their answers would be kept private from their ecclesiastical leaders who could have them kicked out of school for feeling any other way.