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The 1st FreeAtLast
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Date: July 27, 2014 07:34PM
Let's never forget that the duplicitous, multi-billion-dollar LD$ Church has systematically deceived more than 15 MILLION people and defrauded them of an estimated $200 BILLION since 1830. Details are in "Latter-day Saint Swindle: The Mormon Church's $200-Billion Scam" (ref.
http://www.amazon.ca/Latter-day-Saint-Swindle-Churchs-200-Billion-ebook/dp/B00J2ON5WK ).
Also, see "Mormonism—Shadow or Reality?" at
http://www.utlm.org/booklist/digitaltitles/mormonismshadoworreality_db004.htm and "The Changing World of Mormonism" at
http://www.utlm.org/onlinebooks/changecontents.htmSteve Hassan, a licensed mental health professional in MA and one of America's leading experts on cults, lists the Mormon Church on his website as a thought-control organization:
https://freedomofmind.com//Info/infoDet.php?id=140By systematically using propaganda and coercive teachings that have inculcated fear, guilt, and shame in GENERATIONS of Mormons from childhood onward, the manipulative Mormon Church has psychologically ABUSED millions of Latter-day Saints.
Concerning your wife, you can share reported info. with her about Hans Mattsson, "a solid believer and a pillar of the [Mormon] church" who "followed his father and grandfather into church leadership and finally became an 'area authority' overseeing the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints throughout Europe," quoting a July 20/13 New York Times report.
The Times piece, which is online, also says:
"When fellow believers in Sweden first began coming to him with information from the Internet that contradicted the church’s history and teachings, he dismissed it as 'anti-Mormon propaganda,' the whisperings of Lucifer. He asked his superiors for help in responding to the members’ doubts, and when they seemed to only sidestep the questions, Mr. Mattsson began his own investigation.
"But when he discovered credible evidence that the church’s founder, Joseph Smith, was a polygamist and that the Book of Mormon and other scriptures were rife with historical anomalies, Mr. Mattsson said he felt that the foundation on which he had built his life began to crumble.
"Around the world and in the United States, where the faith was founded, the Mormon Church is grappling with a wave of doubt and disillusionment among members who encountered information on the Internet that sabotaged what they were taught about their faith, according to interviews with dozens of Mormons and those who study the church.
“'I felt like I had an earthquake under my feet,' said Mr. Mattsson, now an emeritus area authority. 'Everything I’d been taught, everything I’d been proud to preach about and witness about just crumbled under my feet. It was such a terrible psychological and nearly physical disturbance.'”
"...Mr. Mattsson and others say the disillusionment is infecting the church’s best and brightest. A survey of more than 3,300 Mormon disbelievers, released last year, found that more than half of the men and four in 10 of the women had served in leadership positions in the church."
(Ref.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/us/some-mormons-search-the-web-and-find-doubt.html )
There is a lot more info. that you can show your wife. It's in a post I did a week ago:
http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,1330064,1330156#msg-1330156There are critical times in our lives when we need to act with courage, regardless of the potential consequences and even actual outcomes. The reputation that we have with ourselves depends on it. To be truthful with your wife about your loss of 'faith' in cultic Mormonism will require courage on your part.
You could start with Mormon polygamy/polyandry and how Joseph Smith illegally married teenage girls, single women, and other men's wives. See my July 20/14 post for details as well as
http://www.wivesofjosephsmith.org/ and
http://signaturebooks.com/2010/02/in-sacred-loneliness-the-plural-wives-of-joseph-smith/Good luck!