http://i.imgur.com/X6hF69E.jpg Despite the date shown, just received my letter today. This is crazy and exciting and finally allows me to move on. I'd like to thank the r/exmormon community as a whole for always being here through the difficult times, and especially u/kolobot for the CES Letter. Oh, the 15,372,337 comes from the the recent Conference report even though we all know that's innacurate.
Posted Apr 14, 2015, 2:31 AM UTC · edited
Don't take this the wrong way, but to quote Quentin you are leaving at a time when the Church has never been stronger. Parties and profits!
(Snark)
Congrats. Do you feel any different now that you lost your priesthood power?
Haha, nope. Even though I'm longer considered baptized, don't have the gift of the Holy Ghost, lost the 2 priesthoods, and am no longer endowed... I feel just the same as before! XD Could it be that it's all made-up nonsense?!? ;)
Lose a few Harry Potter powers but gain back your only real asset: TIME.
Besides, as we all know, isn't it about TIME?
No longer endowed? Oh no! I am soooo sorry! ;)
Before I lose my priesthood authority (I legitimately giggled at the idea of losing "priesthood authority" ... is it like becoming a squib?), I want to assist in a blessing and during the middle of it, start to wiggle my hips and slowly, almost inaudibly subvocalize, "OooOoohhhh!" ... Christ, I am sure my father or brother would deck me if I did that, but it would be hysterical!
This is more therapeutic than you'll immediately realize. Congratulations on making it official and many good wishes to you and yours.
Congrats!!!!
Hey girl.
Hey girl.
congrats! i'm still waiting for mine - and i sent my letter back in February...
I was surprised how quick and painless my process was. I sent the initial email (used the letter template from the sidebar) on April 7. I got the followup call from "my" bishop (had never met him) the very next day. Was mailed the "an invitation" letter soon after, and now on April 13 I found the above, final letter in my mailbox. Turnaround time of under a week.
Maybe it's time to reach out to them again?
i actually called the COB and was stubborn until i got someone who could tell me the status of my resignation. turns out they have a 'cutoff' date based on when they receive your letter, in case of lazy bishops. i was informed that my final letter would be sent on April 20th unless they heard from my bishop before then.
i then informed them that per legal precedent, their current resignation system is actually illegal. not for any real reason, i was just feeling snarky.
How is 15 million inaccurate? The church is stupid but they can't lie about numbers can they?
Very inaccurate. This article is from 2012, so it's not completely up to date, but shows that this has been an issue for some time.
(Copied from another post of mine) Here are some highlights:
recent studies tell a different story—different because whereas LDS Church records count anyone who has ever been baptized, demographers and pollsters count only those who currently identify themselves as Mormon...self-identified adult Mormons make up not 2% but rather 1.4% of the adult US population—that’s about 4.4 million LDS adults.
LDS growth rates not at 30% but at 16%—a rate on par with general US population growth. retention rates of young people (young men especially) raised Mormon have dropped substantially in the last decade: from 92.6% in the 1970s–2000s to 64.4% from 2000–2010. Rising rates of disaffiliation go a long way towards explaining the gap
Truth bending and "lying for the lord" is a traditional practice in the LDS church
"...What a thing it is for a man to be accused of committing adultery, and having seven wives, when I can only find one. I am the same man, and as innocent as I was fourteen years ago; and I can prove them all perjurers." (History of the Church, vol 6, p. 411) Joseph Smith made this statement preaching from the stand to the Latter-day Saints in Nauvoo on Sunday May 26, 1844. At the time he had secretly taken at over 25 plural wives.
Further, besides the wonky way they count attrition, the number doesn't come close to describing active members versus less active, inactive, and those that have completely left the corp but haven't had their names removed from the records.
You're very welcome!
Too bad the church is still stronger than ever.*
*Comparing this single, isolated, resignation to the millions of baptisms performed since the 1830s, including proxy baptisms for the dead.
;) In all seriousness, congrats!
Congrats!