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Ex-CultMember
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Date: November 06, 2010 01:10AM
Did any of you still believe the LDS church was true even after reading reading books that exposed the truth (real history) of Mormonism? Such as, An Insider's View of Mormon Origins (Grant Palmer), Mormonism-Shadow or Reality (Jerald & Sandra Tanner), and Mormonism and the Magic World View (Quinn). Evangelical Bible-bashing type books and pamphlets (i.e. the Godmakers) are excluded please.
I was a super faithful, unquestioning TBM until I read Mormonism-Shadow or Reality and it totally crushed my "testimony." I wanted to believe and I hung on for 3 more years, hoping a miracle would happen to save my faith, but eventually I had to admit to myself that the church simply wasn't "true."
Did any of you read these books, or the like, and NOT have it phase your testimony?