The following comes from an active* member of the Church:
http://mormonskeptic.blogspot.com/2007/04/mormon-apologists.html
2007-07-05 09:59:47 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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The church is perfect, The members are not.
2007-07-06 12:18:03 · answer #1 · answered by Luv&Rockets 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
The Book of Mormon has been proven to be a total fraud time and time again. Ask any non LDS Meso-American Historian or Archaeologist if any proof has ever been found to support the BoM and they unanimously say NO! Even LDS Historians and Archaeologists have been ex-communicated for telling the truth that the BoM is a fairytale. Why do you think nobody ever heard of Nephites, Lamanites, Jeredites, Cureloms, ect. ect. ect.
The Church cant even come up with a map to put in the back of the BoM so the faithful can follow along with the stories. Any Bible has detailed maps telling all about the places and events that happened in Biblical times yet the Bom cant even find any of the big places like the City of Nephi or Land of Zarehimla or anything else.
Thats because Joseph Smith made the whole thing up . The Bom is the laughingstock of the Meso American scientific community because they know it is a total hoax
2007-07-07 10:56:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
I think it is a brutally true representation of the LDS Church. If The book of mormon is so true, then why has it been changed so many times? That is the thing that bothers me most. Plus, all the knocking on my door.
There is a lot of proof of the mormon church twisting fact and having scientists come up with false information to further the church agenda. I have the most distaste for mormonism out of any other religion. They are the most brain washing.
2007-07-05 10:03:32 · answer #3 · answered by alana 5 · 2⤊ 4⤋
I dislike labels like "apologists." The author of this blog is a person who has lost his faith and does not have the courage to leave the Church. His definition of "apologist" allows him to dismiss without thought anyone who defends the LDS Church. He has labelled them and safely put them in a niche where he doesn't have to think about what they say. He doesn't have to use reason, logic, or facts to defeat them. He simply calls them an apologist - a sort of closed minded individual who dishonestly tries to keep people in the faith - and then he closes his mind to what they say.
2007-07-06 07:36:51 · answer #4 · answered by Doctor 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
He says that LDS apologists work from the position that the church is true, and for some reason, I think that this guy works from the opposite position.
2007-07-05 16:08:17 · answer #5 · answered by mormon_4_jesus 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think you have found a kindred spirit. And as such, enjoy reading what he has to say about his disillusion with the church. I also believe he has the right to write or say anything he wants about the church. Not that I have to agree with it.
2007-07-06 07:53:36 · answer #6 · answered by socmum16 ♪ 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I clearly have no issue with them because they baptized me as one of them.
When they asked me the 4 questions before baptism I said either no or Im not sure its possible. They still baptized me. I said im getting baptized for God not for the mormon church.
2007-07-05 10:03:43 · answer #7 · answered by financing_loans 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Than I must be an LDS apologetic! :)
2007-07-05 10:06:04 · answer #8 · answered by Karen 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I think this might apply to all faiths.
2007-07-05 10:03:51 · answer #9 · answered by biernacki_law 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋