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Hi, I'm River

I'm a college student that loves journaling and playing mystery games. I was a mormon.

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    On my shelf

    • blacks and the priesthood
    • blind faith
    • Book of Abraham Translation
    • blood atonement
    • book of mormon origin and translation
    • Brigham Young's polygamy
    • CES Letter
    • church history
    • church culture
    • City Creek Center
    • doubt
    • evolution
    • Fanny Alger
    • fear-based teachings
    • Gospel Topic Essays
    • historicity of book of mormon
    • 116 Lost Pages
    • DNA and the Book of Mormon
    • corporation of the church
    • Heavenly Mother
    • Joseph Smith's polygamy
    • kinderhook plates
    • LGBTQ issues
    • marginalization of others
    • historicity of the bible
    • masonic rituals
    • mountain meadows massacre
    • November policy
    • November policy reversal
    • Patriarchy
    • peep stones
    • polyandry
    • polygamy
    • priesthood
    • prop 8
    • racism
    • revelation
    • science
    • sexism
    • shame culture
    • temple endowment
    • Infallibility Complex
    • temple garments
    • apologetics
    • the church's gaslighting practices
    • the first vision
    • tithing spending
    • treasure digging
    • Adam-God
    • unconditional love
    • worthiness interviews

    On the Mormon Spectrum

    • Endowed
    • Existential Crisis
    • Faith Crisis
    • Feminist
    • Inactive
    • LGBTQ+ Ally
    • Questioning
    • Returned Missionary
    • Spiritual
    • Transitioning
    • Truth Seeker

    Questions about Mormons My Answers to Questions about Mormonism

    #Link to this answer of 'Did the gospel topic essays help your faith crisis?' by river Did the gospel topic essays help your faith crisis? See more answers about 'Did the gospel topic essays help your faith crisis?'

    Nope. They simply proved that the church had issues.

    #Link to this answer of 'Did you want to sin? Is that why you left?' by river Did you want to sin? Is that why you left? See more answers about 'Did you want to sin? Is that why you left?'

    No! I lost my testimony long before I "sinned." I was still doing everything right as my testimony started getting torn apart by what I learned. I didn't want to hold it together if I was being conned, and the more I learned the more I realized it was just that- a huge con.

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