Comments on: My definition of “Anti-Mormon”

By: amos

amos — Sat, 28 May 2011 17:23:06 +0000

On what motivates an anti-Mormon…
I suppose there are as many reasons as there are anti-Mormons.
The man who murdered Parley P. Pratt was mad that his wife ran off with Pratt. Well, I say he was wrong, his wife had that right.
But I think the epitome of an anti-mormon is William Law, who was simply appalled when he figured out that Joseph Smith was a liar, an adulterer, a murderer, and a thief, and not a prophet.
There’s an intense sense of vertigo when your worldview collapses. I was a full-on believing Mormon until age 38, served a mission, married in the temple, had four children, served in every calling I was asked to. But it started coming unglued. It was more and more of a stretch to explain the paradoxes to myself. It was depressing. Finally it just snapped. I realized all at once that the parsimonious explanation is fraud.
Well, what’s your reaction when you find out you’ve been had? It was far worse than the feeling of being burglarized- at least a burglar is an honest thief. With the church it’s a deep sense of betrayal, that something you trusted more than anyone/anything, had lied to you. It makes you angry and deeply offends your sense of fairness and justice that a corporation sells another God myth and has become fatly rich from it. You feel a sense of duty to criticize it. Then you quickly find out that the church systematically censors critics and uses PR spin to make itself look good, and that church HQ is consciously complicit. When you know this, believe me, it’s hard to stay in your seat.

By: Joshua Steimle

Joshua Steimle — Sun, 15 May 2011 04:26:41 +0000

I read the whole thing. It might provide some good fodder for topics for this blog when I have the time. But suffice it to say, I didn’t see much that was new to me there. Many of the points he focuses on (Kindhook plates, similarities between Masonic and Mormon rituals) as being major issues have been thoroughly refuted. The more experience I get with ex-Mormon and anti-Mormon thought, the more I see that people pretty much believe what they want to believe. I think God has done a wonderful job of setting things up so that it’s hard for us to know anything for sure, and thus we end up living our lives according to what we want them to be, rather than merely following a list of rules that may or may not be aligned with what we really want.

By: Kent

Kent — Sat, 14 May 2011 05:58:36 +0000

Here is another Ex Mormon and why he left his church, very powerful testimony.

http://www.exmormon.org/whylft12.htm

By: Kent

Kent — Sat, 14 May 2011 05:00:56 +0000

I guess I probably belong to the second group but I don’t consider myself against the Mormon church members but against the false and different gospel they are being taught.

Here is a great article from a man who left the Mormon church.

I hope Mormons at least investigate the reasons he left.

http://www.exmormon.org/whyileft.htm

By: Echo

Echo — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 16:33:09 +0000

I thinks its important to make a clear distinction between “anti-Mormon” and “anti-Mormonism”

Someone who is “anti-Mormon” is against Mormons and dislikes or hates them. Someone who is “anti-Mormonism” is for Mormons and loves them and is genuinely concerned for them.

By: Mr. Blue

Mr. Blue — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:30:24 +0000

numbers 4 and 6 apply as well to those whom had left the church also. because in the lds faith it is impossible to conceive why anybody would leave by the members, those who do are simply lumped into the anti camp instead. its way more convenient that way to dismiss any claims they make.