Mormon Resignation Update

[dianyla]

About a month ago I finally mailed in a formal letter resigning my membership in the Mormon church.

A week ago, I received a reply back from the central Member Records division, claiming that they couldn't handle my request, and that they would forward it to the bishop of the local ward that they believe I belong to. Yesterday morning, I sent a

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[horsecoach321]

Ok, I'm really confused about Mormon as a religion. If I didn't want to be catholic anymore, I'd just stop praying etc.

The Mormon religion really confuses me. I think I'll pop to wikipedia for some help. That, and my brain is tired. It's freakin' freezing here :D

[medvssa]

At least in Europe, yu can also officially "resign" from being catholic (if you ever were baptised).

[dianyla]

All Mormon children are baptized and confirmed at the age of 8 years old. So they've had me listed as an official member since that time.

[medvssa]

And catholic almost at birth... the numbers of church members are highly inflated due to this, many people are baptised never to step into a church again, others just after communion. In many places of Europe these are just social ceremonies that have become devoid of meaning, but still the church will count all this people as members.

I have also considered resigning, but the thing is that I never looked much into it. I don't even know in what church I was baptised, I should ask my parents.

[dianyla]

Well, I haven't considered myself Mormon in over a decade. I never bothered to resign before, either, because I think it's all a bunch of made up crap that isn't even true.

However, recent events this year (click on the exmo tag if you want to read more backstory) convinced me that I wanted to resign my membership from a legal/secular perspective.