365 Reasons Why I (And Others) Won’t Return To Mormonism

Reason #59: LDS’s Exclusivistic Claim to Truth

  Of particular interest was my discovery of many people outside the Church who had exceptional powers, such as healing,…

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Reason #58: LDS Leaders’ Linguistic Abilities

  After finishing graduate work in linguistics and education at BYU in 1976, I found professional work in the translation…

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Reason #57: The Nature of LDS Missionary Lessons

When I began missionary service for the Church in 1962, I was given a "plan for teaching the Gospel" to…

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Reason #56: The modern LDS leaders’ lack of foreknowledge

Some years earlier, the war in Vietnam had been gaining momentum and arousing greater domestic opposition.  As consternation grew in…

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Reason #55: Group Pressure in Mormonism

  An LDS doctrine that had always strongly appealed to me was free agency:  that God respects our right to…

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Reason #54: The LDS Depreciation of Bible Translation

  Second Nephi 29:3 mocks the trust of the Bible believer by having him say mindlessly, "A Bible! A Bible!…

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Reason #53: The warfare in the Book of Mormon

  The Book of Mormon raises questions when we examine its accounts of warfare. Where is evidence of the great mounds…

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Reason #52: LDS Sources Enlist Unwilling “Advocates”

When I was a Mormon, I and other people told prospective Mormons that the Smithsonian Institute believed and supported Book…

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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.…

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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…

16 years ago