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I often think of the LDS church as positioned between Scientology and mainstream Christianity. It’s not as harmful as Scientology or as obviously fraudulent, and its leaders are not as malicious as David Miscavidge. But at the same time the LDS church has a track record of hiding history, hiding fin...

Yeah, a fraud would be when they are trying to peddle something that is not true. I know you are smart enough to understand why your statement is problematic. Your view is it’s not a fraud because it’s a religion? Even if Joseph started it fraudulently, the leaders today believe and that’s sufficie...

It's definitely nothing to write home about. But it's not the rapid decline that most anti/exMormons would wish for. Doesn't look like a decline at all. You can't include the data during COVID lockdowns in an analysis because those were exceptional circumstances. If you are going to include them as...

The last few years of LDS growth rate: They're basically back to before-COVID numbers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Membership_history_of_the_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints This isn't ticking up or down. If you remove the outliers caused by social distancing and closing churches, it's...

Isn't FAIR just made up of amateurs? I wouldn't expect them to be an authority on, well, anything.

It’s a shame Jenn Kamp, as Director of Operations, didn’t renew Open Stories Foundation’s liability insurance when it came due in 2022. No she didn't. Honest! She ran outta gas. She had a flat tire. She didn't have enough money for cab fare. Her wedding dress didn't come back from the cleaners. An ...

There are some signs that membership is ticking back up. It may be wishful thinking to believe that people as a whole will continue getting smarter and rejecting ridiculous stories like Mormonism. It’s just as possible that people fall into misinformation more now that internet propaganda is everyw...

There are some signs that membership is ticking back up. It may be wishful thinking to believe that people as a whole will continue getting smarter and rejecting ridiculous stories like Mormonism. It’s just as possible that people fall into misinformation more now that internet propaganda is everywh...

The Book of Abraham is objectively a fraud, but the more important subjective faithful Mormon lens allows you to see it as a revelation from God. This works really well to turn any falsehood into a truth. No evidence that COVID vaccines kill people? Well my subjective truth tells me it does. Like I...

Jenn Kamp’s reposted video:

https://youtu.be/uLJZ2R3MpDE