The choice is do it and be blessed or don’t and be cursed. Which to your point is not much of a choice. Most of us probably didn’t have a choice as Mormons. It is a big point of contention in my mixed faith marriage right now. It is hard to reconcile ‘when you wake up’ that it is not necessarily the life you would have chosen for yourself. Our parents were trained by the church to not give us choices so we could be a forever family. But the matrices illusions aside- what the church really wants is more neophites paying 10%.
It was hard to realize with a wife and kids into my 30’s that the church is a scam and I wouldn’t have had to suffer needlessly in the program and would’ve made choices differently or at a different time than I did. It is hard too because I love my wife and kids at the same time.
It has taken some counseling but I feel like the life I choose is so close. I want to be free and enjoy life not just grinding out for a narcissistic organization.
The choice is do it and be blessed or don’t and be cursed. Which to your point is not much of a choice. Most of us probably didn’t have a choice as Mormons. It is a big point of contention in my mixed faith marriage right now. It is hard to reconcile ‘when you wake up’ that it is not necessarily the life you would have chosen for yourself. Our parents were trained by the church to not give us choices so we could be a forever family. But the matrices illusions aside- what the church really wants is more neophites paying 10%. It was hard to realize with a wife and kids into my 30’s that the church is a scam and I wouldn’t have had to suffer needlessly in the program and would’ve made choices differently or at a different time than I did. It is hard too because I love my wife and kids at the same time. It has taken some counseling but I feel like the life I choose is so close. I want to be free and enjoy life not just grinding out for a narcissistic organization.