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Posted by: Dave the Atheist ( )
Date: May 14, 2017 04:21PM

What about the Truth Gap ?

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Posted by: koriwhore ( )
Date: May 14, 2017 04:21PM

"Some Latter-day Saints may leave the fold after finding out aspects of their history that don't match the Sunday school version — like the fact founder Joseph Smith peered at a "seer stone" in a hat to help him produce the Book of Mormon — but such discoveries are not what drive away most former believers.

It's the realization that they didn't hear those stories first from their church.

They feel deceived by Mormon authorities, whom they blame for keeping such details from them, and wonder what else these men might be hiding.

It's "a trust gap," LDS writer Jana Riess notes in her "Flunking Sainthood" blog"

LOL, gee ya think they might be lying sacks of shit?

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Posted by: Chicken N. Backpacks ( )
Date: May 14, 2017 04:47PM

"Most of the top factors for bolting from the faith, she says in an email, "were personal or social, and not about particular historical issues."

So then, the good old fall back position that ultimately it's *never* the church itself.


She danced around the real issue (that the whole church is a bible fan-fiction cult started by a con man) so well she could be on 'Dancing With The Stars'.

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Posted by: Babyloncansuckit ( )
Date: May 14, 2017 04:53PM

She's true to the brand, bless her brainwashed heart. I'm sure her kids will thank her. (Not)

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Posted by: azsteve ( )
Date: May 14, 2017 05:40PM

The questions are biased. Where is the selection that says "I suddenly realized that I belonged to a cult"?

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