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| − | |claim= | + | |claim=The author claims, "FAIR and these unofficial apologists have done more to destroy my testimony than any anti-Mormon source ever could. I found their version of Mormonism to be alien and foreign to the Chapel Mormonism that I grew up in attending Church, seminary, reading scriptures, General Conferences, EFY, mission, and BYU. Their answers are not only contradictory to the scriptures and teachings I learned through correlated Mormonism…they’re truly bizarre." |
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| + | *The author had already reached his conclusions about the Church and lost his testimony ''before'' he went to FAIR. Based upon his statements, he went to MormonThink and lds.org first. The following statements posted by the author on the ex-Mormon subreddit show his line of thinking: | ||
| + | '''October 11, 2012''' | ||
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| + | Because the "Ouija Board" that he used to con people in his treasure hunting days is the same "Ouija Board" that he used to bring forth the Book of Mormon. | ||
| + | Additionally, the church's spin on how the BOM came to be vs. how it actually happened are universes apart. | ||
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| + | '''November 11, 2012''' | ||
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| + | A person has to do their own convincing. Your dad is doing the research and is asking questions. Let it take its course. Hopefully you pointed him to the right resources (MormonThink.com, etc.) | ||
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| + | '''November 15, 2012''' | ||
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| + | I'm BIC, RM, Temple Married who left the church a few months ago (haven't resigned yet)....I have a TBM wife who still takes kids to church. I want to know the most effective way to save them from Mormonism so they won't have to go through what I went through. | ||
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| + | '''February 19, 2013''' | ||
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| + | Yeah, reading "The Mormon Murders" and other stuff about the Mark Hoffman disaster did really did some damage on how I look at Hinckley and the modern church. Specifically, the buying and hiding the embarrassing forgeries along with the lack of discernment. | ||
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| + | '''February 22, 2013''' | ||
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| + | http://www.lds.org/ensign/1993/07/a-treasured-testament?lang=eng He [Elder Russell M. Nelson] quotes David Whitmer's testimony of rock in the hat translation method. | ||
| + | </blockquote> | ||
| + | '''March 26, 2013''' | ||
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| + | Need Feedback! My TBM grandpa asked me to speak to his CES Director friend about my concerns. CES guy offered to talk to me. This PDF is a rough draft of what I'm sending over to both CES guy and grandpa. Need your feedback/advice, guys. Thanks! | ||
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| + | '''April 30, 2013''' | ||
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| + | I just visited FAIRlds.org, a pro-LDS apologetics site. its fascinating and terrifiying. FAIR confirms polyandry and the rock in the hat translation. Both of these issues usually cause severe cog dis in members. They did with me. I mean, once the rock in the hat story was confirmed, the whole thing collapsed because the rock in the hat ruins the official story of ancient prophets creating gold plates for Joseph and the testimony of the witnesses of the gold plates (since Joseph never used the plates anyway). | ||
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A FAIR Analysis of the online document Letter to a CES Director section "Conclusion"
- "Among the first sources I looked to for answers were official Church sources such as Mormon.org and LDS.org. I couldn’t find them."
- "FAIR and these unofficial apologists have done more to destroy my testimony than any anti-Mormon source ever could"