[AnTiw1]

It's not sinful to lie to a potential convert about aspects of the mormon church they might find offensive (and everyone is a potential convert), it is a sin to reveal something about the church to a convert that prevents them from accepting mormonism. Because new converts aren't ready to accept the higher mysteries, they need to accept the simpler and easier to swallow teaching before they're ready to swallow the more secret doctrines. Milk before Meat. An indoctrination into codependency and total submission of yourself, your family, your finances, and your freewill. Even Romney had to ask the cultleaders' permission to run in politics, he's stated so in interviews. (I'm an ex-lds)

If people really wanted to know the truth, they would google "ex-mormon"...there are thousands of support groups for people leaving mormonism whose lives have been forever altered by this cult, and hundred of thousands of eyewitness testimonies and cult leadership documents. It's all at the push of a button, but 90% of people stop thinking when the mormon advertising ends.

Oh, and BTW...if you check out one of those sites and read about people whose lives were shattered by this cult?...mormons will tell you that a./ They're part of a global anti-mormon conspiracy, or b./ that the victims are in reality "couldn't hack the lifestyle (brainwashing)" and are jealous of true mormons' happiness and success, or c./ they profess ignorance of any such goings on anywhere in the momon church, say that things are totally different in their ward, and invite you to come...and join them for a glass of milk.

[COBOL2Java]

Thanks for the post - all very true. Glad you were able to escape. As for me, if individuals wish to align themselves with a gnostic cult like Mormonism, they can go ahead, but please don’t try to tell me Mormonism is Christian. It might work with the 90% of people you mention who don’t think beyond the slick advertising, but anyone with half a brain can discern the holes in Mormon theology.