Many sincere and loving men and women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints find troublesome facts online about the church founder Joseph Smith. Many of those facts have recently been validated by the Church’s own website. When families are broken up as one spouse cannot in good conscience remain in the church, the high price of fidelity to the truth is realized.
Humility, sincerity and love are required to find empathy and mend hearts. One man’s story mirrors many that are happening all over the world.
Church history, read from its original sources without any convoluted rationalization, censorship or distortion is a form of “theological pornography.” The church has a good reason for warning its members from discovering it. Just as the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Christian Scientists and Unification Church do, the LDS church knows that people who study the documentary record of the founder of the faith are more likely to reconsider the truth claims of the religion.
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This take on an LDS produced video that was against pornography is actually hinting at one of the reasons the LDS church tries desperately to regulate their members’ internet browsing. Not just because of pornography, but because uninhibited access to all things online leads to finding true history and factual science which contradict their faithful message. Pornography–well, you can repent. Finding the historical truth? “We will dismantle your family, your friends, and if possible, your business life,” the church implies in most actions. They don’t excommunicate one for porn viewing, just insert themselves deeply into your marriage. But if you dare talk about historical truth or scientific fact that undermines their tithing base, they will come after you like the gates of hell gaping to swallow up your familial, social and perhaps economical life (on the Wasatch front).
It’s one of those hushed-up realities in the Mormon world that church leaders do meddle in marriages – in fact, feel it is their right to “counsel” husbands and wives in marriages (usually with such church leaders having little to no formal or professional training in marital counseling or psychological therapy) – often to the detriment of those marital relationships. I’ve personally known of a handful of situations where LDS leaders have outright told members to leave their spouses (resulting in divorces).
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