I received this comment on my last blog.

Kris (bkej@shaw.ca) wrote the following:
I think people who have left the church should move on with their
lives…stop wasting their time complaining about the church and
start living their lives. That’s just my opinion though. My
girlfriend who just left her church (she’s Catholic) doesn’t sit
around bemoaning the fact that she left…”oh my life is so
baaaadddd, please feel sorry for me”. Either move on and get over
it, or figure out what the problem really is in your life.

K.

Now, first, let me be really honest and admit that whenever I get these types of comments, my first instinct is to say, “Hey, Dumbass, what if your head was your butt and your butt was your head? Then you’d be a butthead!” But I usually take a little more time and think on my responses, before I reply. Thank goodness.

So, to Kris, who, by the way, has a blog that has something to do with tupperware or plastic, I simply say this. (Okay, I might be lying here. It might not be simple. Bear with me.)

Not a good example, Kris. The Catholic Church is not known for obsessing over MIA members. Especially in these days when they are busy covering up all those priest/child sex scandals. While Catholic mothers may implore errant children to return to church and God, the actual Catholic CHURCH leaves the imploring up to the Catholic mothers. They aren’t really all that obsessed with numbers and members, those Catholics. If you don’t want to go to Church, you just don’t show up, and 16 parish members do not show up at your doorstep to implore you to return. This, you see, is not good form. While they want you to find God, they do not feel the need to hogtie you, stick a gag in your mouth and drag you, kicking and screaming, to God’s altar.

But whatever, Kris, you make your silly comparisons.

I was curious what made Kris rant about this to ME. So I checked out Kris’s blog, for which she left a URL. I found this.

Get over it.
To be perfectly honest internets, I have been finding way too many blogs out there in blogland whose authors are big, fat, moany, whiners trying to convince themselves of something that I am not sure THEY even believe.

At this point, I must simply leave all civility behind and say “What the fuck are you talking about?” I mean, come on. Big, fat, moany, whiners? First of all, get RID of that comma after moany. It ruined your whole sentence. And is moany even a word? And what is this crap about people not even being sure what they believe? I just have to guess she wasn’t reading my blog, because I’m pretty confident about what I believe. I also don’t have an awful life, nor do I complain about it. I DO make fun of silly people a lot, and since I live in Utah, most of those silly people are Mormons. It’s a demographics thing.

Most interesting to me, however, was this statement.

Let me add that there are numerous “I left the LDS church and you should too” blogs out there that just piss me off. If you left then you left…move on with your life. I refuse to judge you for it, I’m not going to blog about you and your choices…but don’t you EVER judge me for believing and doing what I believe is right for me and mine.

GET OVER IT.

Again, I’m not sure how my blog qualifies here, because I’m not a jump-on-the-bandwagon kinda gal, and I’m not imploring anyone to come to The Church of Natalie, but since Kris commented on my blog, I’m guessing I pissed her off. I’ve never said, “I left the LDS church, and you should too.” In fact, I have said, “I left the LDS Church but they claimed me back, and gave me imaginary children to boot.” Or something like that. If I have “followers,” well, that’s not really my fault.

So, the bottom line here is, Kris is a Mormon who is pissed that FORMER Mormons blog about being FORMER or, in my case, TRYING TO BE FORMER, Mormons. Of course, SHE can blog all she wants.

So LISTEN up Kris. As long as Mormons send out missionaries and traipse the earth telling other people that they have THE ONLY TRUE RELIGION, I shall choose to evoke my same, God-given right, and say I DON’T believe it is the only true religion, or even close. As long as they show up at my door asking for money, or in other cases, my children, YOU can bet your sweet ass I’ll tell them what I think.

You, apparently, are spouting that familiar line, ONLY the MORMONS (who have the RESTORED GOSPEL) have the right to offer their views, and those who are NOT faithful Mormons (and faithful to Jesus Christ’s RESTORED GOSPEL), should GET OVER IT.

Guess what, Kris? YOU get over it. At the risk of being redundant, I shall requote Kris.

I refuse to judge you for it, I’m not going to blog about you and your choices…but don’t you EVER judge me for believing and doing what I believe is right for me and mine.

You are PRETTY much a big, fat, liar (notice I don’t have a comma here) because you DID blog about it, even though you didn’t name names, and you HAVE judged me for doing what I believe is right for me and mine.

I didn’t judge you, because I don’t know you from Adam (or Eve for that matter). You might want to be SLIGHTLY worried about that plastic obsession but they have medication for that.

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