What happens inside LDS families when a loved one leaves the faith
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- Опубликовано: 8 июн 2024
- Few conversations are as fraught as those among family members who disagree about ideas they hold dear, and none more so than religion.
Such exchanges can be especially painful for believers in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a faith that can be all encompassing with strong teachings about here and the hereafter, especially about family relationships, and practices that reflect those teachings.
So what happens in families when some hold firm to the faith and others walk away? How do parents, children and siblings respond to those who have chosen a different path? Can they still love one another or does judgment make that impossible? Do they talk about it or do they slink away in silent agony?
Utah Valley University’s Kimberly Abunuwara, director of the humanities program, came up with an unusual way to explore these questions. She enlisted a group of students to interview various families about how their attachment to - or distance from - Mormonism affected their connections and communications.
The team then staged a performance, titled “In Good Faith,” in which student actors used those firsthand accounts from members and former members to reveal these wrenching experiences.
In a special “Mormon Land” episode, recorded live at Orem’s UVU, Abunuwara and two of the student performers - Brielle Szendre and Caleb Voss - are discuss what they discovered, how the experience affected them and what others can learn from this effort.
One of the reasons why Mormons don't do a whole lot of cross-communication between nonbelievers and even other faiths is frankly due to the lack of debates about Mormonism from the public. Other faiths do this, christians debate their faith, Jews especially debate faith tenants and practices, any practice of suggested change within the church is met with a talk with your bishop, a disciplinary review and excommunication.
They don’t participate because their truth claims are unsustainable.
A similar situation exists within Jehovah's witnesses.
It would be interesting to know whether people mainly leave due to the process generally called "secularization", or whether it's more because of the specific history and values of the LDS Church which they don't believe in anymore.
LDS is a cult
CULT! Glad I left!
Every religion has cultic practice and is basically a cult in the beginning. I highly recommend everyone to study the real meaning of cult first before you use it.
@@user-lm9tz8eg1r My momma told me not to talk to stupid people. Bye!
@@user-lm9tz8eg1r I don’t think it’s a full-fledged cult, but Mormonism has many cultish elements.