http://www.ldsrevelations.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:16:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.ldsrevelations.com/blog/?p=73 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 ... http://www.ldsrevelations.com/blog/?p=72 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 ... http://www.ldsrevelations.com/blog/?p=71 A recent commenter claimed that my blog and it's 'webmaster' present information about Mormonism "negatively and with a distinct bias against the church and it’s history." While there is truth in his statement— I mostly blog about the less than flattering portions of Mormonism— I take exception to the bias ... http://www.ldsrevelations.com/blog/?p=70 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 ... http://www.ldsrevelations.com/blog/?p=68 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 ... http://www.ldsrevelations.com/blog/?p=67 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 ... http://www.ldsrevelations.com/blog/?p=66 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 ... http://www.ldsrevelations.com/blog/?p=65 I have really resisted talking too much about media personality Glenn Beck online because, well, I think he's kind of a tool. Not only do I personally have issues with his politics of fear and divisiveness, I think he is a goof. Truthfully I don't like giving him any additional ... http://www.ldsrevelations.com/blog/?p=64 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 ... http://www.ldsrevelations.com/blog/?p=63