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 [...]
In an LDS Church News Article dated Jan. 9, 2010 LDS faithful were instructed to rely solely Church approved sources when teaching lessons in church meetings. While this is not anything that is really new it is worth discussing because, well, it is one of the biggest issues I have with the Mormon Church. Specifically [...]
I hadn’t heard about this until I read a post on a Mormon online discussion board yesterday. It seems in October 1984 Elder Ronald E. Poelman, a member of the First Quorum of Seventy, gave a talk in General Conference that created a stir. On the post I read a few people recalled hearing the [...]
Last week the LDS Church came out in open support of local ordinance banning discrimination against gay men and lesbians in housing and employment to be voted on by the Salt Lake City, Utah city council. Although the he measure likely would have passed it is questionable whether the vote would have been unanimous. In [...]
Stick with me for a second and the post subject line will hopefully make sense.
I was just talking with a TBM co-worker about the discrepancies between the 1832 First Vision account and what now is the FV official version. The biggest by far is no mention of God the Father by JS in his first [...]
I saw this on the Colbert Report last night and thought it was hilarious. Personally I think the ad this parodies is ridiculous but then I’m just a “perv” straight guy who doesn’t see gay marriage as harmful to anyone else. I especially love the “paid for” line at the end of the ad.
It’ll be [...]
Lately the LDS Church has been troubled by the association of the terms “polygamy” and “Mormonism” in the media. Leaders in Salt Lake think that the association is unwarranted and is the result of sloppy reporting that doesn’t distinguish between the mainstream church and fundamentalist groups. In America however, people will always consider polygamy a Mormon [...]
Or at least that’s what I’m being told.
I recently had a discussion with a family member about Mormonism— he’s a believing member. He acknowledged that Joseph Smith was wrong in his prophecies regarding the Kirtland Bank but said that it was okay for God’s spokesmen to get some things wrong. “See,” he says “prophets like [...]
