All The Reasons We Won't Return to Mormonism
Reason #45: Joseph Smith's Boasting about Languages
On one occasion Joseph Smith Jr., the founder of the LDS religion, quoted from seventeen different languages (not always accurately). At another time he claimed, "I know more than all the world put together" and went on to discuss the meaning of various...
Reason #44: The Whitewashing of LDS History
Mormons are taught that abstinence from tea, coffee, alcohol, and tobacco is essential for entrance into the celestial kingdom. If this is true, Joseph Smith must be a candidate for the terrestrial or telestial kingdom because he repeatedly violated the Word of...
Reason #43: Joseph and Nauvoo
There's an error in the upcoming edition of The Mormon Mirage. (Yes, since I'm human, there will be errors.) This one has to do with the assertion of Fawn Brodie (author of No Man Knows My History, a biography of Joseph Smith) and others who have said that...
Reason #42: from Susan Storm Smith
Here are a couple of reasons why I would not return to being a Mormon. 1) The whole Temple and Endowment process and the truth behind it is one of the factors why I would not return to being a Mormon. My maternal side of the family were Masons and Eastern Star Royalty...
Reason #41: The Sheer Number of Joseph Smith's False Prophecies
Because of the Sheer Number of Joseph Smith"'s False Prophecies: False prophecy became a habit for Joseph Smith. Most estimates of the number of recorded false prophecies that Smith made range from 50 to 60. Edmond C. Gruss and Lane A. Thuet in What Every...
Reason #40: Joseph Smith's Failed “Miracles”
False Prophecies and Failed Abilities of Joseph Smith: While at Kirtland Ohio, Joseph made a prophecy that is unfamiliar to most Mormons. Just before the first general church conference, he predicted that "not three days should pass away before some should see...