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I'm just surprised that the Utah-based church ever elevated a guy named Steve Kerr to an area authority position.

I think Thomas Dick and Emmanuel Swedenbourg have often been mentioned as sources Smith was riffing off of (or outright ripping off).

Annette Gordon-Reed in a video I was watching said that the age of consent around Thomas Jefferson's time for women was 12 . How does that effect the critique of the age of Smith's young wives? But even if that is true, it was not socially acceptable in that time and place for 12-year-olds to get m...

Brother Smoot is not being honest with his fellow man. He commented on this debunking by Philip Jenkins, so he knows the issue is not as good for the LDS position as he makes it out to be in this video: m m Also, this: m That the Mopologists throw NHM out there as the BEST archaeological evidence in...

This thread will not have run its course until Mayan Elephant and RockSlider start throwing down. John Dehlin is the David Miscavige of Ex-Mormonism. This sounds like something out of a Scientology press release: What we know for a fact is that Mormon Stories Podcast and the Open Stories Foundation ...

Peterson is oddly silent on the matter. I'm sure Peterson has these sources and references but is just too busy right now to be able to respond. Indeed. I am sure he is busy making arrangements for first-class travel to a faraway land where he will mingle with many very important people with names ...

Maksutov wrote: TBMs don't mix their Mormonism with ... Swedenborg

Except for the parts of Mormonism that Smith stole from Swedenborg, of course.

For me it was a long slow climb up Mount Reality until one day I reached the summit and the stunning vista came suddenly into focus. As Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "one's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions." So it felt like an all-at-once sort of thin...

Brilliant.

And that is why I have trouble being open with people. It always gets used against me (something that was later acknowledged by this bishop when my husband confronted him). Exhibit A: mentalgymnast's nasty misogynistic comment in this thread condemning her without knowing the facts (or, hell, maybe...