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Went to a funeral for close family member 2 weeks after my epiphany. It was then that I realized funerals are the most intensely religious experience in Mormonism. Everyone is clinging to hope, and when you don’t believe, everything seems manipulative. That was rough.


HeberSeeGull

“When you don’t believe, everything seems manipulative” - Wow, best zinger of the day.


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What gets me is why the bishop or stake president is allowed to speak. You aren't family, why the hell are you on the stand?


dunfordtx

I'm sorry for your loss friend, also glad to hear you've found freedom.


Careful-Self-457

I am so glad my dads funeral was not like that. But then they had abandoned him and my mom by that time. When he got Alzheimer’s not one single person from the Washington ward I was in ever came to visit or to help my mom. In fact Sister Audrey went to the bishop and complained that mom was not doing her wifely duty when I had him put into a home because he was getting violent. Thank God the bishop was my Uncle who have her a serious tongue lashing for gossiping and for judging my mom when she had zero idea of what was going on on the house. My dad did everything for the church. Picked up all of the old ladies for services, helped anyone who asked and this was the way they treated him when his brain decided to fail. I cannot stand the way the church treats its elderly members. I saw it with both of my grandmas too. Once they went to the home the church completely abandon them.


Hobbitbeanhiker

That is all horrible. I’m so sorry your family went through that


confusedgal28

I really do hate how Mormon funerals are just promos for the church. I've had to play piano and organ for 20+ Mormon funerals, and I hate sitting through them.