No I am not a Mormon Xer. My mother took her 5 children (after she was abandoned by her husband) and did leave a strange religion and I see so many similarities in people who have left Mormonism and my mother.
Leaving the religion of one’s birth isn’t easy. It took years for her family to accept her leaving and to finally believe she isn’t doomed! I know of no one who has a stronger faith than my mom. But her faith is in God, not man.
I have huge issues with man-made rules in religion.
And no, I’m not telling what religion. You would all laugh at me.:)
I try not to paint with a broad brush and assign motives and things because of my life experiences and I have had my own traumas in life too.
I know I been blessed because when things got to a place I could not understand I always had Lord to ask and help me understand or to give me peace of mind.
Heavenly Father being of male gender and his also his Son and servants being male must make a lot of women resentful!
Yet I have found the man who truly walks with God to be the most comforting to be around.
There are men who profess God and than try to force their concepts on others to me they are so wrap up in the letter of the Law they, the Spirit of the Lord withdrew.