$100 billion in one fund. $32 billion accounted for in other funds [0]. Not to mention 2% of the land in Florida, several billion dollars in commercial and residential real estate. Who knows what else they're hiding.
And 16 million members is fools' accounting. It doesn't account for the millions of people like me who don't go to church and yet are still members because I don't want to pay money to hire a lawyer to force the church to take my name off the records.
No, that is no longer true. Because of the popularity of services like quitmormon.com, all resignation requests have to be notarized since a couple of months back.
My dude, you've obviously spent hours on hacker news trying to defend your belief system (or lack thereof). Just let it be, if you don't want to be Mormon anymore, then don't. Your inability to live with your decisions is painfully clear by the time you invest trying to publicly justify your choices.
Move on like the dozens of people I've known that just sent in a letter and have not been harassed since.
Edit: Also, the part you edited out wasn't as clever as you hoped, glad you removed it.
And 16 million members is fools' accounting. It doesn't account for the millions of people like me who don't go to church and yet are still members because I don't want to pay money to hire a lawyer to force the church to take my name off the records.
[0] https://kutv.com/news/local/mormonleaks-says-new-documents-l...