1. The Book of Mormon fails at the first hurdle of English language for the faults of plagiarism, oddisms, tautology, anachronism, and nineteenth-century narrative.

2. God is not a fascist, empire-building, fake artist fond of hanging out in the woods with a paedophile con-man chancer

3. The Book of Abraham

4. The earth is more than 7,000 years old

5. The Book of Mormon can brook no archaelogical evidence of Nephites, Lamanites, settlements, geography, battles, bones, language or history.

6. Polygamy

7. Black men could not hold the priesthood until the Morg was threatened with legal and sporting sanctions

8. The promise given in the temple second annointing ceremony that the lucky few have the power of opening the heavens.

9. The wicked Morg policy of persuading single mothers to give up their child born our of wedlock for adoption

10. The current policy of excommunicating radicals and liberals

DNA has to be in the top ten.

There is better evidence than that.

my top (in no order)

1- The First Vision Stories (multiple accounts and changes, and Young, Woodrfuff, Taylor and Pratt saying in the Journal of Discourses that God sent an angel to Joseph)

2- Book of Mormon inaccuracies and anachranisms (Nephi mining for ore with no tools, impossible population boom, skin turning dark)

3- Priesthood being Restored....but no one knew about it for years, and the revealations being added after the fact.

4- Temple rites being Masonic (Joseph creating the Endowment 6 weeks after he became a master mason)

5- Book of Abraham having nothing to do with what the papyri actually says.

Different people have different perspectives, which is why it is interesting to see what matters to other people.

The church claims the BOM is a historical account of Jews who came to America. From my perspective it doesn't get much simpler the church is not true.

Not sure how 6 through 10 "prove" that the church is not true. It's clearly illustrates what a nut case it is - no argument there, but whether it's true or not isn't brought to light by these issues.

Proof only matters once you are out or are looking for a way out. There are lots of round pegs and square holes in Mormonism, including evolution vs Adam and Eve, earth is 6,000 years old or 4.5 billion years old and mountains full of fossil data showing death on earth for billions of years vs no death before the fall.

Though in each case above, both can't be right and the science explanation is correct, Mormons don't reject the church doctrine. They rely on the tried and true spin doctor line: "God is the source of all truth and someday when we die we will know the truth." Meaning the church is right, science or other explanations by "anti-mormons" are wrong - they hold to this bull shit explanation instead of considering the facts.

The same is true of B of A, B of M etc., who cares about the facts, don't rock my world etc.. Only the "honest in heart" will listen to the facts.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/30/2014 01:53PM by perky.

The changes to the revelations, especially those related to the restoration of the priesthood, need to be in any top 10.