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If you are formerly religious, how did you leave your religion and what made you do it?
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I was raised mormon and steadily lost faith in it all through my 20s. I had a bunch of mental dissonance for awhile trying to reconcile the whole love your neighbor stuff with the LDS churches campaigns against gay marriage and disgust towards trans people.
What broke the camels back was ironically a philosophy or religion course at BYU. It tries to teach you how to justify all the religious paradoxes in a way that lets you keep your faith. One of the units explored an idea on if God was worth worshipping. And that question brought it all tumbling down. At the end of the day it didn't matter if God exists because based on the world he wouldn't be worth worshipping anyway.
Most of my family has distanced themselves from Mormonism so generally things have been good. My mom was a bit disappointed but we still get along just fine.