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schrodingerscat
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Date: December 05, 2019 03:35PM
"When asked what advice the two men had for members of the church with friends who are “struggling with their faith” due to doubt and questions of church history, Mr. Ballard claimed the church has never hid “anything from anybody”.
https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2017/11/26/commentary-the-gaslighting-within-mormonism-must-stop/?fbclid=IwAR1x0graiM3lThR-xxHwmyhd0HmRFkT2mf427XhNxKoSKSIy3m4LW_MhtGUI've heard this line of reasoning from paid Mopologists, like Daniel Peterson, who told me that if I didn't know about Joseph Smith and Brigham Young practicing Polyandry, that was my fault, not the church's fault, because he's known about it for 20 years. But I expect that from somebody with the integrity of a Tobacco Industry Lawyer.
So now I guess this is the level of integrity I should expect from so-called "General Authorities" since there is no way to actually defend their founders behavior, they just whitewash it and pretend it was always common knowledge.
Unfortunately I spent my first 40years in the abusive Doomsday CULT that claimed 4 generations of my family before me and I never heard a word uttered about Joseph and Brigham having sex with their follower's wives and teenage daughters. I still have yet to hear an honest explanation for that history from a Mormon. The closest I've seen is from a BYU Professor who claimed Polygamy didn't involve sex, which is bullshit, since Brigham Young had a child with Zina Jacobs, wife of Henry Jacobs, after sending him overseas on his 8th mission to get him out of the picture so he could have his way with poor Henry's wife Zina.