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 [...]
I came across this resignation letter on a blog a while back and liked it so much I shared it on a few online boards. I forgot to post a link to it here. Here it is.
I like this letter because it manages to get the resignation job done without the bitterness. Sure it takes [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A Gallup poll posted online January 11 shows Mormons as the most conservative religious group in the U.S. Well duh! I could have told the them that. I wonder how much money and time they spent coming to this conclusion.
See the Gallup Poll Results here.
It is nice though to have findings that confirm what we [...]
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 [...]
I have been slowly responding to the text of a presentation that Richard Bushman gave discussing Church members who have learned new facts about Mormonism— facts they find disconcerting. I have addressed 3 of the 4 characteristics he lists for a “revived Latter-Day Saint— someone who manages to still believe in Mormonism despite discovering a [...]
3. These newly revived Latter-day Saints also develop a more philosophical attitude toward history. They come to see (like professional historians) that facts can have many interpretations. Negative facts are not necessarily as damning as they appear at first sight. Put in another context along side other facts, they do not necessarily destroy Joseph Smith’s [...]
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 [...]
