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 [...]
My move away from Mormonism has been a gradual process over the past 7 years or so— sometimes so gradual that I don’t see how far I am from where I began. Now and then though things come up that show me just how far I have really moved.
This weekend I was cleaned out our home [...]
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 [...]
After taking a break for a year or two, the podcast Mormon Stories is back at it. The podcast was, and still is, a great forum telling the stories of all kinds of Mormons (TBM, NOM, doubting, disaffected, Ex-Mormon). It manages to talk openly while still trying to keep the discussion intelligent and in my [...]
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 [...]
I have said for years that the LDS Church and it’s members are not exactly truthful with outsiders about their religion. In fact, many times they are purposely deceitful about beliefs, practices or doctrines that are problematic. Mormons tell me this is simply not true— that there is no systematic deception in the Church.
I know [...]
Came across this YouTube video recently. Thought it was interesting.
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 [...]
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 [...]
