I grew up mormon, but most of that is behind me now.
I am currently reading Michael Baigent's "The Jesus Papers" and I am alarmed by all the deceptions, cover-ups, corruption and destroyed records and documents of the early Christian era. I don't accept all of Baigent's theses, yet some of them fit the secular history.
I couldn't help but feel a deep sense of loss of these things, for there are some pieces of history may never know. I already possessed this feeling, but it gave me somewhere specific to direct that feeling. I suspect that many others feel this loss of history, subconsciously or otherwise; and I say this from an archeological/historical point of view.
So here is my specific question to mormons, especially converts: Does mormon dogma fill this 'void' or loss for you, and if so, how? There is no factual evidence whatsoever that supports the claims of the book of mormon or most if not all of the 'prophesies' of Joseph Smith.
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2007-08-08
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