Exmormon Foundation
The Exmormon Foundation is a non-profit, non-sectarian organization that supports people transitioning out of affiliation with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). It was founded by Richard Packham in 2001. He left the LDS Church after concluding from his personal research that he did not believe its teachings, particularly the historical teachings of the Adam–God doctrine. The foundation holds an annual conference in Salt Lake City, Utah in October, the same month as one of the LDS Church's own semi-annual general conferences. Notable speakers at the Exmormon Foundation Conference have included musician Tal Bachman, Flora Jessop and Linda Walker of the Child Protection Project, Dr. Simon Southerton, Brent Lee Metcalfe, Steven Hassan, Stanford professor Craig Criddle, Jeff Sharlet, John Larsen, Grant H. Palmer, John Dehlin, and Pat Bagley. The Exmormon Foundation is informally associated with the Recovery from Mormonism website, which hosts a discussion board where Exmormons, unbelieving Mormons, and doubters post their complaints, criticisms, and other personal reactions to their experience with the LDS Church. Over the years, the RfM discussion forum has become a haunt for older exmormons who seek to share their stories regarding the mormon church and their opinions about its past, present and future. While comprising only a tiny slice of mostly White (Nephite) experiences, the fingers-on-their-keyboards participants still manage to find reasons to support different views of how the church evolved and managed to spit them out or cause them to self-propel from its grasp. Lamanite participation on the website is sparse, but tawdry...

Two main sub-texts now exist: hatred for mormon leadership and making fun of/laughing at mormon leadership. Words and phrases such as "Second Annoying," "Afossils," and "Celestial Bean Coffee," along with many other pithy anti-mormon flavored offerings are thought to have sprung from the forum. There are also many 'permanent fixture' forum members who are not and never were baptized mormons. Some have been accused of participating for the money, but we are assured that this is not the case. The forum survives financially via donations from those who can't get their verbiage published any other way. Very, very slight mention is made now of Judic West, a totally unknown, unknowing pontificator whose quoted pronouncements have accumulated over the years. One is warned to hold one's breath as one peruses them. The forum accepts any and all who have a computer, anger or antipathy towards the institutional mormon church, and can type. As indicated, it does skew towards older individuals. An unscientific view has the median age around 63. One can post comments without formally signing up, but signing up allows one to secure a screenname, make corrections/additions to a post, and to see new posts marked as not having been read. There is no cost, but as indicated, donations are not only welcome, but necessary. Initially, no mention of "politics" was allowed, but a change in ownership in the early 2000s seems to have allowed politics to be discussed as it touches on the mormon church and its activities. As with most things 'human' this definition finds itself stretched at times. The Recovery from Mormonism website also includes a catalog of short auto-biographies where Exmormons describe their loss of faith in Mormonism. Mormon scholars like Daniel C. Peterson have been known to post on the Recovery from Mormonism discussion board in defense of their religion. References

External links
 Exmormon Foundation

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