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How I Escaped Mormonism
“How do you feel?” My dad asked me this as I dried up from being baptized when I was 8 years old. “Clean”, I replied. And that was that. Technically true, because I didn’t actually fell spiritually clean. Just wet.
Although most Christians would say they technically became Christians once they were baptized, I was technically Mormon even before I was born. Mormon families are “sealed” for eternity in the temple, even before the kids are born. Why? Because Mormons believe that we are spirits before we’re born and that we choose our families before coming to Earth. It’s quite the bond: eternity. Funny enough, I think many Mormons secretly laugh at the concept of “til death do us part.” How weak that they only go to death!
This was my start with Mormonism, and it would take me until I was 18 years old to leave the church and years later to break free of its grasp on my life.
The start to the exit came when I was 10. I learned quite abruptly how fickle eternity was when my Mormon parents got a very nasty divorce. Thus began the first crack in the wall of Mormonism for me.
