Hi friends, welcome to another minisode. This one is a little bit different. This one is a letter that was someone took a photo of and sent it to us. They received this letter from a Mormon family member.

So it's not nice. It's quite crazy and mean, but I thought it would be good to read it on the podcast.

They gave me permission to read it and keep their names anonymous.

But this shows how many members are treated after they've left the church by believing members.

Okay, so I'm going to get right into it.

You once asked me if I thought you were wicked. The answer is yes. Unfortunately, without experiencing this great wickedness for myself, I would have not known how you feel. You are wicked. I have been in the place you are putting others. I was abused as a child. I know the depth and the width and the height of that darkness.

I know firsthand the depths of that despair, of that bitterness, of that anger and hatred.

I know the feeling of innocence lost. That is the same innocence that you are now stealing from your own children.

In their innocence, they believe you in your lies, but the day will come when they will reject you and everything you stand for.

You don't love them.

You just want to control them.

You are a bully and a coward at the same time.

You are teaching your children that it is all right to abandon your parents, brothers, and

sisters, and extended family. They have learned the lesson well and will abandon you and your wife

when the time comes, that they have freedom from your darkness. We are content to live

without contact with them now as we know the day of reckoning will come. It always does. On that day, you will bow

and know and confess that Jesus is the Christ, the Savior of all those who would be saved. On that

day, you will look into your children's eyes and our eyes and you will admit that you took

advantage of their innocence. You lied to them. You lied to the

rest of your family and you denied God your father and chose as your father he who has never been a

father to anyone. He is only the father of lies. How will you live through eternity knowing you

deliberately chose evil over good five minutes before the end of times when the wicked

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