While I did get tired of non Mormons mocking my beliefs when I was LDS, it did also get me to think about things, which in turn led me out.
Strange. I had much the opposite experience.
I was on my way out when some of my agnostic ex-Mormon friends began to mock the LDS church. I was struck at how unfair and mean-spirited they sounded. That got me to look more closely at other things they said. Far from being disinterested seekers after truth, they were just as partisan, closed-minded, and unreasoning as they accused religious people (Mormons and non-Mormons alike) of being. That was a turning point for me.
The more vitriolic the accuser, the less convincing the accusation.
amen
it did also get me to think about things, which in turn led me out.
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4 ¶ And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable:
5 A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.
6 And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture.
7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it.
8 And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
9 And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be?
10 And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.
11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
12 Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.
14 And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
15 But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.