Normally I don't use Wikipedia as a primary source. However, someone has done an excellent job here listing the scores of sectarian groups that are offshoots of Joseph Smith's teachings. The chart is particularly helpful. Of course the LDS church looks to the...
Recently a reader of The Mormon Mirage was engaged in an online discussion with Mormons. Under discussion was a “cleaned-up” version of some of the last hours of Joseph Smith. In the present edition, it reads: Dr. Richards was taken sick, when Joseph said,...
As if millions of formerly-faithful Mormons didn't already know this: There is no such thing as Book of Mormon geography. You can go to the Near East and find Jerusalem and Bethlehem and Jericho. But you can't find a single Book of Mormon city on a map....
Recently I sent out a request for guest bloggers to supply new “Reasons” for this blog, and Olavo dos Santos Martins sent the following. I am happy to share this testimony with you. I got to have my first contact with the church through his missionaries in...
Recently The Wall Street Journal ran a short article about the way that a religious group becomes a cult. Here's a quote: The first is behavior control, i.e., monitoring of where you go and what you do. The second is information control, such as discouraging members...
