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That is just so crazy. I can understand why a church might need to be hard on someone who not only doesn’t believe but is actively working to bring others to his viewpoint of unbelief. It doesn’t make sense for an orginization to formally support someone who is trying to bring the orginization down.
But I’ll never understand why you’d bash someone who is struggling with faith, or perhaps even has lost that struggle, but wants to stay in membership and continue to work it out. Heck, if someone in my ward came to me about that I’d be excited. The vast majority of inactives I speak too just don’t care enough anymore to want to even try. At least someone trying to stick around still has some kernel of faith.
I find that I’ve come to grips with the church past. I accept we’ll never know exactly what the truth is in the past, and that leaves me room to hope for good. But church present has its own share of troubles that are much harder to reconcile.
These spiritual experiences are awfully tough things. I won’t deny having felt such things myself multiple times over my life, including before I converted to LDS. I know they happen and I don’t deny they are of God. I’ve also come to see that such experiences happen to many in other faiths as well. I don’t think Joseph Smith would have said spirtual experiences are limited to LDS, but who knows on that obviously. But it certainly does raise the question of how do you go about deciding what out there is true. I’m confortable for myself that there is lots of truth, even unique truth, in the LDS Church. And I know the foundation that keeps me accepting that when I’m incredibly challenged by thing our leaders say are those spiritual experiences.
