Mormon Bandwagon

Polygamy

  • Questions to Ask

    Questions to Ask

    Introduction These ques­tions are designed to probe var­i­ous aspects of the LDS Church’s his­to­ry and truth-claims.1 The list was made for 1) inves­ti­ga­tors to ask the mis­sion­ar­ies, 2) active mem­bers to ask…

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  • Finding Truth: Response to “8 Anti-Mormon Tactics That Satan Uses To Attack The Latter-day Saints”

    Finding Truth: Response to “8 Anti-Mormon Tactics That Satan Uses To Attack The Latter-day Saints”

    In March of 2017, MyLifeByGogoGoff published a piece entitled 8 Anti-Mormon Tactics That Satan Uses To Attack The Latter-day Saints. The piece was then reblogged by LDS Living. I am certainly no…

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  • Problem Summaries: resources discussing LDS-truth claims

    Problem Summaries: resources discussing LDS-truth claims

    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)…

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  • Joseph Smith’s Polygamy Denials

    Joseph Smith’s Polygamy Denials

    Introduction Joseph Smith denied the prac­tice of polygamy1 on sev­er­al occa­sions. He was also respon­si­ble for the pub­li­ca­tion or dis­tri­b­u­tion of sev­er­al addi­tion­al denials. A com­plete list­ing of ear­ly Church leader polygamy…

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  • Five Key Facts

    Five Key Facts

    This is a very short sum­ma­ry of what I view as the 5 most impor­tant facts in under­stand­ing alter­na­tive mod­els for LDS truth claims. To the best of my knowl­edge, every point…

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  • Joseph Smith and Polyandry

    Joseph Smith and Polyandry

    Of all the aspects of church his­to­ry I found polyandry to be the most sur­pris­ing and the most shock­ing. But because I hold the Book of Mor­mon to be authen­tic and brought…

    Dave Mack
  • Leaving the Church, Part 8 — Polygamy and Polyandry
    Series:

    Leaving the Church, Part 8 — Polygamy and Polyandry

    1. Back­ground: The LDS Church pub­lished an essay, Plur­al Mar­riage in Kirt­land and Nau­voo, on Octo­ber 22, 2014, dis­cussing its polyg­a­mist past. The essay admit­ted the fol­low­ing, which will be dis­cussed in…

    Eric Nelson
  • Leaving

    Leaving

    Writ­ten in Jan­u­ary, 2012: In Decem­ber of 2011, my hus­band, Justin, and I respect­ful­ly resigned from our call­ings and stopped going to church. It’s been a long, tir­ing, enlight­en­ing process. I’ll start with…

    Sarah Zabel
  • Examining the Fruits of the Church in Practice
    Series:

    Examining the Fruits of the Church in Practice

    I first need to make a cru­cial dis­tinc­tion here, between the Cor­po­rate and Insti­tu­tion­al Church, and the Church that exists in the lives of the indi­vid­u­als and fam­i­lies that com­prise the var­i­ous…

    Don Cohen