Not to mention when you leave they will come to your door for years trying to get you to come back.

If you don't specifically and formally request that your name be removed from their records, they will still consider you to be a member, even if you haven't attended for decades.

It was about 10 years from when I first requested my name be removed from their records to when it was actually done. They want to keep names on their rolls to artificially inflate their total membership numbers, so it is hard to get your name removed.

Yeah, I remember when they changed it. A lot of members got very angry about it.

I think Jehovah's Witnesses are pretty unimpressive.

In 1977 or 1978 they reversed their ruling that black men couldn't be bishops. They only did this because of declining numbers, and highly visible lawsuits from the NAACP and the ACLU. According to their Prophet, God changed his mind.

I remember it as blacks could be baptized and be members, but could not not hold the priesthood. Every other male member of the church, except blacks could hold the priesthood. Due to members converted in Africa who came to the U.S. who weren't told of the limitation filing lawsuits, they suddenly had a "revelation" that the curse was lifted. They claimed blacks and any person who wasn't white were descended from people who displeased god, so he cursed them with darker skin. To this day they still discourage inter-racial marriages.

When I was a kid, I often heard stories of persons who converted/repented and "became white" as a result. The stories were always second hand, and never actually happened. If it ever did happen you can be sure they'd have paraded such persons to promote their religion. The idea is nonsense, and rooted in an ignorance out of how "racial" skin color differences evolved. In my mind there is only one race, the human race.

The entire damned leg.

LMAO... I can't ever remember any enjoyment out of going to church when I was a kid. I just never fit. There was a short period when I did try to believe, in order to better fit in with my parents ans siblings, but I just couldn't believe.

When I was in high school we were studying Greek Mythology at the same time we were reading the old testament in church. Side by side like that, it was pretty obvious that the bible is only more myths.

Most of my childhood was just going through the motions to keep my parents happy.

Yeah, I've seem the booths for gay Mormons at pride events. I couldn't get why they wanted to believe in a religion that denied a great part of who they are.

Due to my Mormon upbringing, I was in major denial myself. I left the church when I was 17 (in 1979), but because of my fucked up upbringing, I did not come to terms with beign gay until I was 23 (in 1985).
Religion can really stifle one's self knowledge and awareness of who you are.

1852, did you NOT know that Jesus walked through the U.S.A. long before he was Crucified ?
He converted ALL the Native American peoples during his 'mission' then went down to Mexico and did the same, that is the name Jesus ( Hesus) is so common amongst the Spanish and Mexicans.

@Triphid The Mormons teach that Jesus came to the America's after he was crucified and rose again.

The same could be said of any religion, and especially Christianity.

Or women

@Triphid Until you mentioned it was a hardwood, I was imagining it was that tree with the acidic sap that burns the skin. (As demonstrated in the movie Crocodile Dundee 2).