Thanks, everyone. All of your comments are very much appreciated. It's hard for me to say anything because I feel as if everything has already been said on this site. But I might add that one of the hardest parts about disagreeing with some of the doctrines of this religion is that in doing so, you break the heart of people you care for if they find out what you think. And if you're born in the religion, you're dead meat if you stay around too long. You become too aware of the flaws in doctrine, too aware of the strange logic used to present these doctrines, too aware of your own hypocrisy, too aware of the potential cost of your straying beliefs.
It's also hard to have no one to blame. When you look at the organization in the big picture, I don't think that there are many people who are intentionally trying to mislead anyone. In a sense, everyone is innocent and everyone is guilty. Everyone who believes is forcing a way of life on others, yet they also think it is the best way of life for others. I believe that this is true of people in the organization from the bottom up. The real culprits are the founders of the religion, those who enforced rather bizarre doctrines on unsuspecting people from the start. Although in a sense the founders were also innocent, since they probably believed that what they said was for everyone's good.
What I mean to say, then, is that the thing to blame is the desperate and yearning side of people. The side that needs to believe in things that may not be true. The same side that forces other people to believe the same things.