by Thinker of Thoughts | Apr 20, 2014 | Mormonism
[Note: if you read nothing else, be sure to click through the slides in the presentation on the impossible gospel below. That is the most important part of this post.] The LDS church has hired a slick PR firm which is making great strides towards polishing the Mormon...
by Thinker of Thoughts | Apr 16, 2014 | Mormonism
I previously described how anti-mormon material is primarily reproduction of actual church history from historical documents the church itself once produced. These explicit accounts lay bare the body of church history and have aptly been called “theological...
by Thinker of Thoughts | Apr 13, 2014 | Mormonism
On February 9th, 2010 (a day that will live in infamy) an internet user by the name of FancyLad uploaded a set of instructions on how to take an image that is not technically explicit and cover up just the right parts in a way that tricks your brain into thinking that...
by Thinker of Thoughts | Mar 30, 2014 | Mormonism, Talk on Things and Stuff
Talk on Things and Stuff is a new series on this blog in which the puppet persona of Thinker of Thoughts (a.k.a. Bomonomo) sits down and talks with various personalities in the former Mormon community. Why puppets? Well – the reasons are 3 fold. First, many...
by Thinker of Thoughts | Mar 27, 2014 | Mormonism
[toc]Last week I issued a challenge for people to find something in the Nauvoo Expositor which was a blatant lie about Joseph Smith. Doing so would support the claims made in a LDS primary manual that the Expositor told “many vicious lies” about Joseph....
by Thinker of Thoughts | Mar 18, 2014 | Mormonism
[toc]Former Mormons frequently accuse the church of distorting or whitewashing its history. Does this charge have any credibility? Perhaps we can recruit the readers of this blog to answer this question regarding a key event in LDS History – the publication and...
by Thinker of Thoughts | Mar 11, 2014 | LDS Fraud Case, Mormonism
In the recent charges brought against LDS President and Prophet Thomas S. Monson there are 7 claims made which are purported to be false representations by the church. Claim #4 is as follows: “Joseph and Hyrum Smith were killed as martyrs in 1844 because they...
by Thinker of Thoughts | Mar 9, 2014 | Mormonism
[toc]Anyone familiar with the history of the translation of the Book of Mormon will recall that the first 116 pages of the translation, the contents of the “Book of Lehi,” were lost. The lost pages The Encyclopedia of Mormonism summarizes the story here:...
by Thinker of Thoughts | Mar 5, 2014 | Mormonism
[toc]I have previously written several articles on racism in LDS church history including how it started with Joseph Smith, was vigorously defended as true doctrine, and how it’s root principle has still not been eliminated. A close friend has asked me why I...
by Thinker of Thoughts | Mar 3, 2014 | Mormonism
As a member, I occasionally pondered why Joseph Smith was so prolific in his prophecies, yet the prophets since then have been very reticent to make such bold prophecies. All sorts of historical miscellany came forth from the mouth of Joseph Smith – things that...
