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Well good grief, that's quite a read, so here's my two cents. I live in Utah, and yes my family came back to the state for both family and religious reasons as most of my family are active mormons, personally I'm a jack mormon. I have my faith and I believe the way that I do because of personal experience, not because of doctrine. I've had almost a complete falling out with my entire family and don't fit in with practicing mormons around here because of the choices and interpretations that I made for myself over the years.
My distance from my religion is mostly about the association with the people that is required by attending Sunday services. It's an argument/discussion that I've had with quite a few people about not judging the beliefs based on a particular group of people bastardizing it into something unrecognizable, but as of yet I've not found anywhere locally that I can separate the two. I have a lot of sympathy for both sides and I do enjoy have discussions with others about their religion in an effort to learn more about them, but I hate it when they think that means that I want to be preached too and converted.
Since I was younger I've lost a lot of the habits and rituals that I used to rely on from day to day, my parents forced me to do a lot of the same type of mindless obdience and it just wasn't something that I was capable of or willing to do.
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