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Reason #198: Simon Southerton's Treatment as a Doubting Mormon
Many people suppose that leaving Mormonism is at first a liberating experience, throwing off the shackles of error, going into the light of truth. But it didn't feel that way to me, and apparently it doesn't feel that way to a lot of thinking Mormons who struggle with...
Reason #197: Count up the Book of Mormon Changes for Yourself
I've seen estimates as high as over 5,000, describing the number of changes in the Book of Mormon from its first "inspired wording" to recent editions. But don't take my word, or anyone else's for that. Look on this site and compare multiple digital versions for...
Reason #196: Because It Goes Beyond Tallying Risks
I've often heard Christians express frustration with non-believers, offering this argument: If Christianity is true, you should believe it to benefit from its advantages, not the least of which is eternal life. And if it's not true and there is no eternal reward,...
Reason #195: Incredible LDS Missionary Attrition Rates [edited for clarity]
One of the most knowledgeable ex-Mormons I know is Richard Packham. He is not the kind of person who makes extravagant statements about Mormonism (true, it's usually not necessary to embellish it, right?) He has these very interesting insights about how many...
Reason #194: Because I get to answer snarky letters
Here's a recent letter to me via this site: Another one bites the dust, ha ha. 🙂 Anyhow, I think it\'s sad that you allowed Dan\'s love for you to also infect your faith. I didn\'t see anything new here or in your books -- basically a rehash of the...
Reason #193: “Doctrines That Are Going Away”
I am a "lurker" on an Internet message board where LDS historians and others speak about "doctrines that are going away" (their words, not mine.) Q: How can a DOCTRINE go away? A practice, yes. But a definition of God shouldn't "go away," right? Here's another quote...
Reason #192: Romney's Candidacy Highlights the Role of LDS Secrecy
"That aspects of the religion of a devout president of the United States should be concealed from all but 2 percent of us may be a legitimate question that merits pondering." Quote from a provocative article in The New York Times: Everyone is asking this...
Reason #191: What would a Christian Church have to Change to Become Mormon?
A VERY big unspoken assumption Mormons operate on is that all blessings (except the most general ones of having life itself and "rain on the just and the unjust" and Romans 1:18-20 type things) are only available through the LDS Church organization and priesthood as...
Reason #189: A Breakthrough about the Eternal God
Mormonism creates a little god, a god made in the image of man. The real God is infinite, unchangable, and unmeasurable.
Reason #189: More about the Eternal God
Mormonism holds that God was not always eternal, for God was not always God. Besides being irrational, this heresy is confuted by Scripture.
Two new online articles praise The Mormon Mirage
The furor over a Dallas pastor calling Mormonism "a cult" has led to the release of two new online articles that have nice things to say about my book, The Mormon Mirage. I'm particularly grateful to see that someone who doesn't know me personally says that I'm...
Reason #188: Because of LDS Teachings about Hell and Sons of Perdition
Who will go to the LDS hell? Very few. Those who go to the Telestial Kingdom will already have suffered from the time of their deaths until the end of the Millennium in the hell of the spirit prison. Mormons say that their suffering, or self-atonement, in the...