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This may look like I am trying to "bash" the church, but I have the actual references to all the things I bring up here and encourage Mormons or researchers to verify the accuracy of these statements. This does not look like the Mormonism that the LDS Church portrays in it's TV commercials and public service announcements. Please use historical references if you wish to refute anything here. Please do not write any more "testimonies" to me. Joseph Smith's ethicsThis is quoted from 'The Mormon Hierarchy - Origins of Power' by Dr. D. Michael Quinn, Signature Books 1994. I highly...

Anti-Mormon Training Center The all new Anti-Mormon training center. Not to be outdone by the LDS/Mormon missionary training center, Anti-Mormons have opened one of their own.

My first experience with anti-Mormons came when I got my first AOL account in sixth grade. Instant messaging and crises of faith: two things I have definitely outgrown. I stumbled into an LDS chat room and apparently one of the lurking anti-Mormons could sense my naiveté and IMed me. I can't even tell you how many hours I spent arguing with him. Most of the time, I had no idea what he was talking about, but I got good at asking my dad cryptic questions without letting on that I was cyber-battling with an anti-Mormon. ("Hey dad, just out of...

Mormons seeking recognition as a legitimate member of the Christian church is self-contradictory because the religion was founded by declaring it is the only existing true church, stated one of America’s pre-eminent evangelical leaders Friday. Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, focused in his second blog entry on how, by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints’ own definition, it cannot be considered part of the orthodox Christian church. “‘The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints,’ as Mormonism is officially known, claims to be the only true church. As stated in the Doctrine...

FLAWS IN THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE     In our new book, Flaws in the Pearl of Great Price, we have compiled some very important information concerning the Pearl of Great Price, a book accepted by members of the Mormon Church as inspired scripture. It is, in fact, one of the four standard works of the church. Since most of the material contained in the Pearl of Great Price was supposed to have been given to the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith by divine revelation, it is considered more accurate than the Bible. The "Book of Moses," contained in the first...

A professor claims there is a lack of scholarly attention to Mormon history within the University of Utah history department, the Salt Lake Tribune reported in a copyright story Friday. Teachers recognize no "intellectual or cultural merit in Mormonism," claimed university religious historian Colleen McDannell. She said a perfect example of the bias is the recent rejection of a controversial Mormon studies scholar for a history position. In a Feb. 3 letter to administrators, McDannell said her colleagues' refusal to hire D. Michael Quinn, a Yale-educated author and excommunicated Mormon, is "blatant discrimination." "The absence on this campus of scholarly...