Reason #38: The Situation of Those Who First Heard the Mormon “Gospel”

16 years ago

I have often wondered how I would have responded, had I been an adult in New England in the early…

Reason #37: The manipulative quality of Joseph Smith’s “Revelations”

16 years ago

  One of the most amazing (and least-noticed) revelations he gave out is that found in DoctrineandCovenants Section 15. The…

Reason #36: Joseph Smith Joined Another Church After Saying He Was Forbidden by God

16 years ago

  On June 15, 1828"”years after his supposed visit from God who told him that all churches on earth were…

Reason #35: The Gold Plates Never Existed

16 years ago

  One LDS author, Dan Vogel in American Apocrypha:Essays on the Book of Mormon stated:  "Given the fact that the…

Reason #34: Unreliability of Book of Mormon Witnesses

16 years ago

Many Mormons seek solace in the thought that there were enough reliable witnesses to substantiate the Book of Mormon"'s validity…

Reason #33: Who could verify Egyptian translations in 1828?

16 years ago

  Martin Harris did indeed as Mormons claim take a copy of some of the characters Joseph Smith said he…

Reason #32: Joseph Smith’s Imaginative Abilities

16 years ago

  Smith's wife Emma once said that she believed God dictated the Book of Mormon because her husband could hardly…

Reason #31: Joseph Smith’s Story Is Not Unique

16 years ago

In 1837 an illiterate youth named James Colin Brewster said that at age ten, he, like Joseph Smith, had been…

Iron Sharpens Iron Broadcast

16 years ago

Last week I was interviewed on WNYG in New York on the "Iron Sharpens Iron" broadcast. One of the most…

Writing Acronyms

16 years ago

Writers have their own set of abbreviations (especially in this age of Twitter -- find me there under "Latayne.") The…