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Reason #47: The Monitoring of Church Members and Ex-Members

   The LDS Church once instituted an organization "“ more of a practice, really "“ called the "Strengthening the Church…

15 years ago

Reason #46 — Big Love and the Introduction of Polygamy into American Culture

  Big Love, indeed.  Mormonism, in all its incarnations, institutionalized what many people see as the inevitable successor to legalized…

15 years ago

Reason #45: Joseph Smith’s Boasting about Languages

  On one occasion Joseph Smith Jr., the founder of the LDS religion,  quoted from seventeen different languages (not always…

15 years ago

Reason #44: The Whitewashing of LDS History

Mormons are taught that abstinence from tea, coffee, alcohol, and tobacco is essential for entrance into the celestial kingdom. If…

15 years ago

Reason #41: The Sheer Number of Joseph Smith’s False Prophecies

  Because of the Sheer Number of Joseph Smith"'s False Prophecies: False prophecy became a habit for Joseph Smith. Most…

15 years ago

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…

15 years ago

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…

15 years ago

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…

15 years ago

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…

15 years ago

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…

15 years ago