Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Mormon Myth's Busted

Being an exmormon, I have come to realize that it is okay to feel sexy and enjoy my own sexuality.  This is a healthy part of learning who I am.  When I was a part of the Mormon cult, these feelings were repressed, and I felt evil even wanting to explore them.  Now I feel so liberated in mind and body.  In everything I did, I felt guilt shame and manipulation.  Without realizing or thinking about it I tried to live my life following a specific cookie cutter shape.  I never quite fit.  I didn't make me happy.  I exacerbated my feelings of anxiety to the point that I would get migraines and stomach aches.  Upon leaving the cult, I realized how much lighter I felt.  There was a great big world out there that previously I had thought was mostly full of wicked and adulterous people.  My perception is quite changed. Here are a few myths that I have now busted.

  •   I have been surprised at how innately good people are naturally.  They do not need a "God" or "prophet" to tell them what to read and what not to read, where to buy their underwear, or how to dress. They are happy!  They are not wallowing in their wicked ways.  They seek for good things naturally, think for themselves, make smart decisions. 
  •  They don't get into car accident's for the mere fact that they aren't wearing magic underwear!
  • Not every man that you happen to be alone with will rape you.
  • A bishop is not a marriage counselor!
  • The Preisthood is a mere version of self fulfilled prophecy, or failed disappointment!
  • Getting married at 19 as a Mormon merely means that you couldn't hold off having sex!
  • "Procreating and replenishing the Earth" is not required before graduation from college, or within the first 5 years of marriage let alone at all.
  • Wearing your bathing suit to the pool as opposed to changing when you get there will not cause an early death.
  • Being an RM simply means that there was nothing better to do during that time or they fell to peer pressure.
There are probably a lot more, but this satisfied my desire to rant a little bit.  Anyone else have a myth to bust?

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