I discovered the church was false back in Feb 2012. My initial reading consisted mainly of books, wikipedia and FAIR. I stumbled across mormonthink.com a few months later, which by this time I already left the church, but it helped me gain much valuable information to continue my research and defend my positions. So it was a big help.
I first found Bob McCue's site, then rfm. Not long after starting to come here I found out about mormonthink because people here on rfm were talking about it or mentioning it.
I accepted that I was mentally deconverted from the idea of an anthropomorphic God and Mormonsim's apparent man-made system of faith, guilt and fear around April/May 2012. Then I dove into all the detailed reasons why Mormonism is false by looking at its foundation with info available at Mormonthink.
Mormonthink is a good resource but for me I pursued it only after realizing I did not believe.
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I read through and studied mormonthink extensively. I felt it was presenting viewpoints from both sides in a balanced way. I still looked into other sources online as well in order to get a better general view of all the issues.
I figured out the church was not true by asking myself this question while reading the book of mormon: "Could someone who was unfamiliar with the english king james bible have written this?" The answer was a resounding "NO!"
Mormonthink, among many other sources, helped to confirm my decision that the church wasn't true.
Autumn 2011 after trying so hard to be a Molly Mormon but getting nothing but backlash from husband & kids, Divorce. Newly single. Received an email from family who'd brought me into the church 18 years before telling me they'd learned the church isn't true. Somehow although I was TBM I felt instantly relieved to hear the church wasn't true because it confirmed so many subconscious suspicions I'd had but dared not speak of. No more stress!!! Have felt somewhat lost since then, but no more cognitive dissonance-related stress :-)
I left the Church seven months ago, but I lost my belief in the Church in 2005 through studying various books and Internet sites. I didn't discover mormonthink.com until two years ago. I wish I would have had mormonthink back in 2005; it would have made it a lot easier to find information. By the time I found it, I was familiar with most of the issues, but I learned more details about those issues by reading mormonthink.
Rough Stone Rolling introduced a lot of the historical issues and got me thinking. My main issue was polygamy/polyandry, so when I decided I wanted to learn more (knowing I wouldn't get answers from local leadership), I did a google search and the MormonThink page on polygamy was one of the top results. I read it, and I was done. I talked about it with my husband, and he was also done. Then we had loads of fun reading everything else.
I thought Mormonthink was a lie and I didn't believe what they wrote the whole polyandry thing had to be false but FAIR has helped me leave Mormonism. After Fair said that Mormonthink is right we kept reading that page.
The brainwashing about not looking at anti sites was strong in me. The site felt anti and I kept away. Instead I read source books of historical records of the time of the early church to make up my own mind.
I still think that current believing Mormons might find the site a bit offputting at first glance (not enough pictures of beautiful temples and other such trappings) and thus anti and avoid it.
Have you guys considered A/B testing for click thrus or site design surveys and feedback? Costs money but invested properly it drives acceptance and is tangibly measured.
I was pretty much mentally out of the church because of my discomfort with the temple and social issues. Mormonthink and RfM helped my shelf of other concerns collapse.
I left with my entire family less than 2 years ago. It'll be 2 in October.
We had already pretty much decided the church was not for us by the time we allowed ourselves to look at MormonThink.
Reading MormonThink helped allay any fears that we were making a mistake. So in that way perhaps it prevented us from getting roped back into the mess of Mormonism.
By the time I found Mormonthink, I was pretty much already done. This was accomplished primarily using "faithful perspective" sources. The SP was what got the ball rolling for me. MT was definitely helpful afterwards though.
Prior to being "free" I had never looked at mormonthink.com. It's interesting how many people found out the truth about TSCC by means of the internet. For me it was: dealing with TSCC in real estate transactions, watching them sped billions on the large and spacious buildings, snotty members at church, annoying home teachers, bishops who never leave me alone, friends complaining about their new calling, hearing about how family is so important yet parents in bishop and stake pres. positions are never home with their families, serving a mission, being told from parents that if I don't take my kids to church that they will not be able to live together after this life, being a temple worker at the SLC temple, after seeing how rude the so called 15 douche pouches treat general members, seeing the destruction in my own family of how TSCC tears them apart. Reading the "old school" church history Vs. new modern church history and how it has been adulterated, reading about the state of religion in the late 1700's to mid 1800's and Joe's treasure digging and alcohol sales. Just to name a few. Whew, that was fun. I am done now. Wait, yep I am done.
And then, and only then did I partake of Mormonthink.com. Every bit of it just reiterates the lies and corruption by TSCC, I would like to share my testimony of the truthfulness of Mormonthink.com.