All The Reasons We Won't Return to Mormonism
Reason #51: Latter-day Revelation Didn't Create Unity
Whatever its effects upon the religious world, Mormonism has not, as it originally purposed, done away with religious division. Its aberrations of Scripture and liberties with the Word of God, though, have in the past caused Christianity to solidify against it....
Reason #50: The Book of Mormon and Polygamy
Probably one of the hottest areas of controversy rages around the Book of Mormon"'s teachings on polygamy. Those unfamiliar with the teachings of this book might be surprised to learn that polygamy was flatly condemned in the book of Jacob. Jacob was a Nephite...
Reason #49: The Proxy Baptisms of Jews
An ethnic group which has done public battle with the LDS Church is Judaism. According to Richard and Joan Ostling, in the mid-1990s about 380,000 deceased Jews had proxy baptisms performed in their names in various LDS temples. They included many Jews who died in...
Reason #48: The Love of God (from Susan Storm Smith)
FROM SUSAN STORM SMITH: As I was in Bible study this morning, the most beautiful thought came to me in relationship to the subject of why I would not return to being a Mormon. As a Mormon, the focus is on works and good deeds. Its about...
Reason #47: The Monitoring of Church Members and Ex-Members
The LDS Church once instituted an organization "“ more of a practice, really "“ called the "Strengthening the Church Members Committee" which it publicly billed as a newspaper clipping service[ii] but which in reality was a spy organization that...
Reason #46 — Big Love and the Introduction of Polygamy into American Culture
Big Love, indeed. Mormonism, in all its incarnations, institutionalized what many people see as the inevitable successor to legalized same-sex marriage: the legalization of plural marriage, which many people are calling "the next civil rights...