I thought I’d share my reasons for no longer seeing Mormonism as true or particularly useful. True, I have sprinkled some these idea throughout posts on the blog but they are scattered and fairly disorganized. I’ll try here to put them all in one organized place to hopefully avoid the risk of readers merely dismissing [...]
Since Jeffrey R. Holland’s conference talk the name Ethan Smith has been more active across the blogosphere than normal. Unfortunately not many people know who he was (or Solomon Spaudling for that matter). LDS who know the name often don’t understand how Pastor Smith really plays into the narrative around the Book of Mormon— and [...]
In a recent General Conference talk LDS Apostle Jeffrey R. Holland claimed that Joseph and Hyrum faced with their imminent deaths WOULD NOT have maintained their support for the Book of Mormon as it would have been risking blasphemy to the supreme being they were expecting to soon meet.
Here’s the quote:
As one of a thousand [...]
Just as I finished mowing and fertilizing my lawn on Saturday a large thunderstorm barreled through the east side of the Salt Lake Valley, where I live. It was pretty entertaining as storms go— according to the Channel 5 weatherman there were 6000-8008 lightning strikes in the valley including the west side. One of those [...]
I can’t take credit for coming up with this question— and I wish I could, because I think it’s really incisive. It gets to some of the stickier issues that surface when dealing with truth and religion— issues that are hard to sometimes see from other angles. It is a hard thing to consider, really. [...]
2. They also don’t believe he was led by revelation in every detail. They see him as learning gradually to be a prophet and having to feel his way at times like most Church members. In between the revelations, he was left to himself to work out the methods of complying with the Lord’s commandments. Sometimes [...]
Despite the church’s claims, the roots of Mormonism, rather than being ancient and Old World, are often instead nineteenth century and very American.
The Book of Mormon is no exception. Believers testify it is a ancient record but comparing the book with sources contemporary to Joseph Smith places the book squarely in the 1820-30s Burned Over [...]
