“Except that many Lds are quite intelligent, even if not so spiritually discerning.”
That’s a good view of it. I have met many ex-Mormons who certainly wouldn’t fit with what I had just written, and who came out of it exactly because Mormon doctrine and history was exposed along with the Gospel message. I was thinking of my worst encounters, the kind who sit there refusing to acknowledge that, for example, Smith predicted New Jerusalem would be built by Mormons in “this generation,” but didn’t happen, along with ignoring the the obvious contradiction with the Bible which has New Jerusalem literally floating down from heaven.
Bad typo. Correction:
“... was exposed, who also received the Gospel message” not “mormon history and doctrine was exposed along with the Gospel Message.”