Reason #199: Damning Documentation: LDS Clergy Abuse

If you can read this document all the way to the end without becoming really, really angry, you have either mastered your emotions completely or you are dead. Deb Diener has provided links and information from public documents. Wow, just wow. (For more information,...

Reason #189: More about the Eternal God

A Christian friend of mine has an ongoing cyber-discussion with a Mormon. The Mormon recently sent him a chart he'd devised that supposedly contrasted Mormonism to Christianity. I was disheartened, because the Mormon wasn't honest. He wanted agreement, not definition....

Reason #181: Sanitized Documents

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,...

Reason #178: Growing Acknowledgment of the Role of Secrecy

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...