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A novice view of belief and non-belief

I am a seventh generation Mormon who has also been inactive for the last seven years.  I was born in the faith. I zealously believed in it as a child, as a teenage seminary student, and eventually as a faithful missionary.  Today, I push a varying distance from the Church.  That distance exists because of my own choices and the also the actions of the church.  I watch from outside the faith of my fathers. I am not interested in attacking faith, nor am I interested in preserving it.  I am interested in documenting my own feelings, thoughts, concerns, and joys around faith.  All of it originates from my Mormon upbringing.  If you find this writing helpful, I am happy for that secondary affect, but I am mostly doing this for my own personal growth. If at some point you find this blog offensive, I would hope that you first examine some of your own personal beliefs.  Your life doesn't have to include a single bit of my personal opinion, but I hope that you as a reader will assume good w