ColonelAngus24601

The best hope we have is chipping away gradually at their human capital. This church is built solidly on the backs of volunteers. We talk about a tipping point, and lack of member involvement is likely to be the lynchpin.

I'm stuck going to church, but I half-ass my calling and make less-than-faithful but logical comments. People will frequently thank me because deep down many like to listen to some reason. I will not bear my testimony though.

Wikipedia on the "straw man" logical fallacy:

A straw man is a common form of argument and is an informal fallacy based on giving the impression of refuting an opponent's argument, while actually refuting an argument that was not presented by that opponent. One who engages in this fallacy is said to be "attacking a straw man."

The typical straw man argument creates the illusion of having completely refuted or defeated an opponent's proposition through the covert replacement of it with a different proposition (i.e., "stand up a straw man") and the subsequent refutation of that false argument ("knock down a straw man") instead of the opponent's proposition."

Kerry "The Mule" Muhlest

You'd be hard pressed to find a more entitled organization.

They require quite everything from there members. As per the temple endowment -

"...you do consecrate yourselves, your time, talents, and everything with which the Lord has blessed you, or with which he may bless you, to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints..."

In return they owe you nothing.

They don't owe you any apologies for prior or current offenses.

They don't owe you any honesty regarding church history

They don't owe you an explanation of obvious frauds like the Book of Abraham

They don't owe you any explanation of how your tithing money is spent

The list goes on and on...

Who else used to take the sacrament and think "Welp, guess I'm drinking damnation to my again, down the hatch it goes!" Sometimes I thought I could taste the burning. Fucked up, eh?

Look what you did 😦

Constant stream of negativity. It's hard to tell what's me and what's my depression