Folks like edmarc who are new to RFM:

You may have just read some shocking bit of info about the church that left a not-so-sacred mark in your whities. You can't believe the information is true--you gotta believe these anti-mormons here are just making it up to justify their sinning.

Here's a little tidbit to remember: Mormon Scholars stay up late over this "anti-info" and are at a loss to explain it in a logical, simple to accept manner.

Don't believe us? (Good for you!) Start by seeing what the mormon apologists ("scholars") say about the issues upsetting your digestive system. Visit
http://en.fairmormon.org/FAIRwiki:Table_of_contents
and you'll see that in fact the issues raised here are legitimate; that the explanations over there are not appealing.

Do you remember in Sunday School the testimony-building question you were supposed to ask yourself? Could Joe, an uneducated farmer, have written the Book of Mormon all by hisself?

Well, while reading FAIR's extremely complicated responses (to why the archeology, DNA, linguistics and other studies of Ancient America do not uniquely match anything in the Book of Mormon) ask this question: Are these apologists on chlorpromazine? Cause they should be.

For all the twisted mental gymnastics BYU doctorates perform to fix the problems created by Joe and buddies when making up the BoM, it would be extremely hard not to answer that "Could dumb ole Joe have writ it" question in the (duh!) affirmative. That's exactly why there's so many dislocated brains at FAIR.

You want answers, probably right away, but they won't come immediately. You didn't end up with a testimony over night and you won't de-construct and de-program yourself overnight either.

In any event, your next move after realizing the issues are real is to perform a little faith experiment. No, not the one in Alma 32.

See what happens when you stop exercising your faith. If possible, try not attending church for a month. Try not wearing your garments for every little thing you do in life. Try not paying tithing for a few months. Did God strike you down and withhold blessings? Did you lose the spirit or get more peace of mind? Did you have less or more money? Did you find even better family times on Sunday that brought you closer?

Try it, if you have the courage. You'll be surprised at how alive and awake you start feeling as you deprogram away from the kool-aid bowl.

Of course your next problem will be, what to do about cookie-carrying, love-bombing members when you go all-jack on them. Give them your garmies; ask them to get the skids out with some B.S. stain remover.

I remember fondly about a year or so ago, back when our friend Wilson the Volleyball was gracing us with his presence. I mentioned something about skidmarks in garments, and was summarily told to grow up.

So grow up. *wink*

lol

Wilson! Wilson! *sob*

If tom hanks had worn garmies, would he have gotten stranded in the first place?

And don't you know the volleyball was merely a vessel for the Holy Ghost?