I'm wondering if anyone knows what the best "anti mormon" books are that were at one time available from Deseret Book? Was In Sacred Loneliness or Quest for the Gold Plates ever available from DB? I know I read a bunch a while back, but now I can't remember which ones used to be available from Deseret Book.

I know while I was starting to doubt tscc I found books that used to be available from Deseret Book to be less threatening. I'm trying to remember which of those I read first for a friend. Thank you!

I liked Mormon Enigma. I could never understand why that book was a problem for the tscc.



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Grant Palmer's book I believe was. An Insider's View

I gave my dad a copy of "An Insider's View" as I too had heard that it was once sold at Deseret Book. He called his friend who was/is some sort of VP or higher up at Deseret Book. According to his friend, it was never sold at Deseret Book. Long story short, my dad never read the book.

Rather than actually read the book and examine the evidence, most mormons would rather just see if it is church approved. Brainwashed much?

I think some of the most damning books are the ones produced by the Church: "Teachings of Joseph Smith," "Journal of Discourses," "The Miracle of Forgiveness," and anything by BKP. You can still get most of these at DB, but they're now heavily edited and redacted versions that omit most of the really crazy stuff.

Nowadays, with TSCC distancing itself from eternal progression/godhood, American Garden of Eden, blacks and the curse of Cain, Native Americans having Hebrew blood, polygamous prophets and apostles, Masonry, and temple weirdness, just about any LDS book written before 1990 is a great source of "anti-Mormon" information.

That said, DB has gone on a massive whitewash campaign. You can't even buy "Twilight" there any more.

Journal of Discourses --26 volumes

The Way to Perfection Joseph Fielding Smith

If you read all of those, you will not recognize the Mormon Church of today

Jb

David O McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism

first edition of mormon doctrine.

Mormonism and the negro

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The Book of Abraham is the best anti-Mormon book I've red yet!

Rough Stone Rolling has some interesting bits that most Mormons don't know about Joseph Smith. It talks about the Kinderhook Plates, JS sneaking visits to his polygamous "wives" behind Emmma's back, and some other gems here and there. It is written from a highly pro-Mormon point of view, so you have to be willing to come to your own conclusions over the author's obvious bias.

I went into Deseret Book once and asked if they had "Blood of the Prophets." It's the account of the Mountain Meadows Massacre that most forcefully asserts that Brigham Young ordered the massacre. I asked for it just to see what sort of response I'd get. (Embarassment, denial?) The actually had it in stock and had two copies on the shelf. This was not too long after the book came out, so I imagine by now someone at DB has read it and ordered it pulled from the shelves.

I got my first copy of Mormon Enigma from the BYU Bookstore. I also got Orson Pratt's "The Seer" there. There was another book there called Unpublished Revelations by Fred Collier, whom I think was a fundamentalist.