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The original was posted on /r/exmormon by /u/masterboogway81 on 2025-05-06 21:34:08+00:00.

They told me to pay tithing first—even if it meant skipping meals. That God would provide. That “blessings would come.” That the Church would never let me fall.

But let’s be honest: I did fall. Hard.

Because when you’re broke, and someone in a suit tells you to give your last dollars to a Church that’s sitting on billions—while you’re sitting on an empty stomach—that’s not spiritual guidance. That’s manipulation.

They told me that if I put the Lord first, the windows of heaven would open. Instead, I opened my fridge and saw nothing. I opened my bank app and saw overdrafts. I opened my hands and got no help—unless I filled out a humiliating form and begged for food from the same system that told me to give more.

And through it all, they called it faith.

What kind of faith demands the poor stay poor to prove their devotion? What kind of “true Church” asks a single mom to tithe before she feeds her kids, then builds luxury malls and investment portfolios behind closed doors?

They told me I’d be blessed. I was. I was blessed the day I walked away from that toxic logic