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 [...]
Here we go again with the men, God, and sex thing. More specifically, the thing where men claim that God has told them to have sex with and/or get married to someone else. I found a link to a story posted on a message board I frequent and truthfully I am once again amazed at [...]
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 [...]
Came across this YouTube video recently. Thought it was interesting.
On October 13, 2009 Dallin H. Oaks, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the LDS Church spoke at BYU-Idaho where he took the gay marriage debate to a whole new level of ridiculous. In his talk titled, Religious Freedom he compared the backlash against the LDS Church for it’s participation in the [...]
