What does ex-Mormon mean, Mom?

litte fta: What does ex-Mormon mean, Mom?
fta: An ex-Mormon is someone who used to be Mormon, but isn't anymore.
little fta: So we're ex-Mormons.
fta: Well, dad and I are ex-Mormons, but you're not an ex-Mormon, you're just a kid!
little fta: disappointed face
fta: Kids aren't old enough to be a religion, you were never Mormon.
little fta: But I went to church every week for a long time!
fta: Yeah, but you were never baptized.
little fta: What's that?
fta: It's a way of saying, "Okay, this person is part of our church now." Christians do it.
little fta: How come I wasn't baptized?
fta: You were too young. Mormons wait until the kids are eight. I think that's too young.
little fta: How come you were baptized?
fta: My parents think that's not too young. But I think it is too young. I think kids should just be kids, and they can choose a religion when they are grown-ups.
little fta: I'm not too young. I want to choose now. smiling facetiously
fta: You do?
little fta: Yeah, I want to be...wall.
fta: Really? I thought you wanted the Flying Spaghetti Monster as your god.
little fta: No, not anymore. I don't want any gods.
fta: But how can you choose? You don't even know what all the religions are yet.
little fta: Yes I do! There's Christian. And wall.
fta: There's also Muslims, all sorts of Christians, Buddhists...
little fta: Dude-ist! What's Dude-ist?
fta: Buddhist, not Dude-ist.
little fta: Oh, like Buddha. What is that?
fta: Well, I don't know that much. But it's about giving up things you want, because those things only make you unhappy. That's what they think, so they try to stop wanting things. I think.
little fta: shoots at me with his watch, pointed like a gun
fta: Honey, no shooting.
little fta: It was just a water gun! See, just water!