Category: Ex-Mormonism
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How to Insult an Ex-Mormon
Note: The following was originally printed in the May/June 2023 edition of Mormonism Researched, sent bimonthly to financial supporters of MRM. To request a free subscription to Mormonism Researched, please visit here. Not only have I had the honor of serving our gracious Lord as a missionary to the LDS people for over 40 years, but I…
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Reasons Why Latter-day Saints Leave their Church
In 2019, Mormon blogger Jana Riess wrote a book titled The Next Mormons: How Millennials are Changing the LDS Church (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019). While what she presents is not as “layperson” oriented as some of her other tomes – including Flunking Sainthood, What Would Buffy Do? and Mormonism For Dummies – Riess compiles important research…
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Ex-Mormonism’s Five Doctrines: An Alternate List
Mette Harrison, an ex-member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, recently posted an article on Religion News Service titled, “The five doctrines of ex-Mormonism.” Mette writes about ex-Mormon get-togethers she has attended and how she has noticed that, in her opinion, ex-Mormons have traded one set of dogma for another. They still…
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Why Do Some Mormons Become Atheists?
The question as to why some Mormons become atheist is being asked as many Latter-day Saints are leaving their church. In the past decade, growth of church membership is at its lowest percentages in years. Meanwhile, while The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints does not give out information about how many people are…
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Mormons Should Be Thankful for a Sixth Kind of Ex-Mormon
On Sunday, the The Salt Lake Tribune published “Kirby: Five kinds of ex-Mormons” by humor columnist Robert Kirby. In his article, Kirby noted that he has, in the past, written about “Five Kinds of Mormons” and “Five Kinds of Non-Mormons”; the logical next step is determining the five kinds of ex-Mormons. He explained, “So, in the…
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How the LDS Church Prepares Its Members for Atheism
Why do so many Mormons become atheists? Whatever the validity of the observation, online discussions of this topic usually only revolve around the answers of not wanting to be fooled again, burnout, and that the same things that deconstruct Mormonism deconstruct all religions. All of these look outside for an answer, but what about Mormonism,…
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A Counter-Creed to “Practical Mormonism Atheism”
Practical Mormon Atheism The Contraries 1 Even if Mormonism is false, it is still worth believing and ought not be refuted. Mormonism, if false, ought not be “left alone”, but ought to be refuted and engaged and deconstructed. 2 Faith is ultimately irrational. Faith is partly but vitally rooted in evidence that can be publicly…
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Atheism Is Just Another Blue Pill
We already live in Narnia. We live in a universe that had a beginning. Indeed, something exists rather than nothing (this alone is amazing). We live among embodied souls who have intrinsic dignity, beauty, and moral culpability. We live in a universe of real aesthetics, of music and design and order and mathematics and right…
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Struggling With A Loss of Faith?
Struggling in the aftermath of religious betrayal? We hope to offer some understanding and direction.
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Validating Post-Mormons
The LDS Church has had a rough month. It started with the March 25th outreach effort of Christians across the nation distributing thousands of DVDs on doorsteps which compared Mormonism with the Bible. Soon after that, the Church released a statement of their concern over the content of an upcoming PBS series titled “The Mormons”…
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Understanding Ex-Cultists
By Janis Hutchinson www.janishutchinson.com In an explosion of emotion a former cultist suddenly burst out: "If I had known what I was going to go through in adjusting to Christianity, I never would have left the Mormon Church!"