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

Reason #39: Because dissent or questions were stifled in Mormonism from the very beginning

In the formative years of the LDS Church, any revelation received by church members was only considered valid if it…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Reason #35: The Gold Plates Never Existed

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

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Reason #34: Unreliability of Book of Mormon Witnesses

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

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

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

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Reason #32: Joseph Smith’s Imaginative Abilities

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

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

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

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Reason #30: Questionable Biblical Interpretation

Why must uniquely- LDS Biblical interpretation be rejected? Because a supposedly Biblical doctrine that is based on possibly-plausible possible exceptions…

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