Problems with LDS truth-claims

Before read­ing about the prob­lems, you may want to first con­sid­er the pros and cons of inves­ti­gat­ing the truth-claim data.

Very short summaries

• Five Key Facts (~ 1 page)
• 50 Prob­lems with the Mor­mon Church (~10 minute youtube video)

More significant summaries

• Mor­mon Primer (mul­ti­ple per­spec­tives: main­stream, crit­i­cal, apolo­getic, and progressive)
• Let­ter For My Wife (almost all LDS approved sources)
• Let­ter From a Doubter (well-sourced nar­ra­tive style explanation)
• The Mor­mon Chal­lenge (almost all LDS approved sources)
• A Com­pi­la­tion of the Evi­dence Against the LDS Church
• Lit­er­al­ly: Wrestling with his­tor­i­cal curiosi­ties in Mormonism
• An End to Cog­ni­tive Dissonance
• The CES Let­ter (the most famous com­pi­la­tion, by Jere­my Runnells)

Other summaries

• Broth­er Jake Videos (light-heart­ed but accu­rate summaries)
• Ques­tions to Ask

Addi­tion­al resources and dis­cus­sion can be found at Mor­mon­Think¹ and the exmor­mon book­shelf, mor­mon, mor­mon­schol­ar, and exmor­mon subreddits.

Official and Apologetic Resources

• Gospel Top­ics Essays (lds​.org)
• Gospel Top­ics, Essays, and Oth­er Resources (lds​.org)
• Fair­Mor­mon (The most sig­nif­i­cant LDS apolo­getic resource)
• Jeff Lindsay’s LDS FAQ: Mor­mon Answers (pro­lif­ic apologist)
• Neal A. Maxwell Insti­tute (BYU affil­i­at­ed insti­tute for reli­gious scholarship)

Addi­tion­al apolo­getic dis­cus­sion may be found at the lat­ter­day­saints sub­red­dit.

Responses to the CES Letter

The CES Let­ter is the most well-known com­pi­la­tion of prob­lems with LDS truth-claims. Below are respons­es to the CES Let­ter. Where he has respond­ed, I’ve includ­ed a link to the response by Jere­my Run­nells (author of The CES Letter).

• Fair­Mor­mon Analy­sis of CES Let­ter (Runnell’s response)
• Let­ter to a CES Direc­tor: A Clos­er Look (page by page analy­sis, videos, and writ­ten responses)
• Some Reflec­tions On That Let­ter To a CES Direc­tor (Runnell’s response)
• Jere­my Run­nells and the Book of Abra­ham (Runnell’s response)
• Eye of the Behold­er, Law of the Har­vest: Obser­va­tions on the Inevitable Con­se­quences of the Dif­fer­ent Inves­tiga­tive Approach­es of Jere­my Run­nells and Jeff Lind­say (Runnell’s response)
• A Reply from a For­mer CES Employ­ee (by Stal­lion Cornell)
• “Anti-mor­mon spread­ing mis­in­for­ma­tion” by hap­pi­ness-seek­ers blog (Runnell’s response)

General pros/cons of the LDS lifestyle

• Helps and Harms (1 page)
• The Pros and Cons of Mor­monism (in-depth analysis)