wasmormonOct 30, 2024

The Mortdale Stake (Sydney Australia) received an email informing them the area had been selected for a Pilot Program named Informed Consent. The email included links to church sites for sources for all the statements. Upon examination it becomes clear it's not an official church-sanctioned email, but a disillusioned member who had access to the stake email system. https://wasmormon.org/email-to-sydney-australia-mortdale-stake-pilot-program-informed-consent/

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Email to Sydney Australia Mortdale Stake: Pilot Program – Informed Consent - wasmormon.org

The members of the Sydney Australia Mortdale Stake received an email informing them the area had been selected for a Pilot Program named Informed Consent. The program announced two objectives: 1) to ensure that converts are fully informed before they commit to baptism, and 2) to clarify any troubling beliefs that have crept in that

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Show threadwasmormonSep 12, 2024

The 1832 account is the earliest known version, written in Joseph Smith’s own handwriting 12 years after the event and there is no other contemporary record from anyone. It was written in a letterbook but never publicly known until the 1960s. This version was removed from the letterbook and hidden in a safe when Joseph Fielding Smith first found it because it was so strange.

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wasmormonSep 12, 2024

https://wasmormon.org/why-worry-about-different-versions-of-the-first-vision/

Hinckley says he's not worried that Joseph Smith's multiple versions of his First Vision. He dismisses these different versions of the vision without ever mentioning any differences in the accounts. His goal is calming members who have heard of these strange accounts, and hope they will not look at them.

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Why Worry about Different Versions of the First Vision - wasmormon.org

In 1983, Gordon B. Hinckley, then Second Counselor in the First Presidency, but later President of the Church spoke to students at the Salt Lake Institute of Religion. An edited version of this address was then given as the First Presidency Message in the October 1984 Ensign. The message, God Hath Not Given Us the

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wasmormonSep 8, 2024

Today, the fact that Joseph Smith was involved in treasure digging is undisputed, yet still hardly common knowledge among members of the church.

https://wasmormon.org/joseph-smith-was-a-glass-looking-treasure-digger/

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Joseph Smith was a Glass Looking Treasure Digger - wasmormon.org

Today, the fact that Joseph Smith was involved in treasure digging is undisputed, yet still hardly common knowledge among members of the church. This is likely due to the historic denials from church leadership on Joseph and any such occult practices. The church has sought to distance itself from the strange magic practices of the

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wasmormonSep 7, 2024

"We have nothing to hide. Our history is an open book. They may find what they are looking for, but the fact is the history of the church is clear and open and leads to faith and strength and virtues." Gordon B. Hinckley, LDS Church President.

Ok seriously? 😳

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Nothing to Hide? - wasmormon.org

President Gordon B. Hinckley, top leader of the Church (1995-2008) addresses several issues related to the church's history and practices in an interview on Christmas Day in 2005. The interview covered many topics but here we'll look closely at what he said about polygamy and fundamentalist Mormons and church history and transparency. Polygamy and Fundamentalist

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wasmormonAug 31, 2024

The Church and Victim Blaming Victims of Abuse

https://wasmormon.org/the-church-and-victim-blaming-victims-of-abuse/

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The Church and Victim Blaming Victims of Abuse - wasmormon.org

Victim blaming occurs when the victim of a crime or harmful action is held partially or fully responsible for what happened to them. This mindset shifts the blame away from the perpetrator and can further harm the victim by suggesting they could have prevented the incident. Church leaders and materials are known to place blame

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wasmormonAug 25, 2024

"First, it was church history. Then doctrine. Then the finances. Then the hypocrisy.” – Doc Bob

This is a spotlight on a profile shared at wasmormon.org. These are just the highlights, so please find the full story at https://wasmormon.org/profile/docbob49/. There are stories of Mormon faith journeys contributed by hundreds of users like you. Come check them out and consider sharing your own story at wasmormon.org!

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I'm docbob49 and I was a mormon. A wasmormon.org profile.

Two solemn assemblies with the Brethren Standard story for small town mormon boy. 4 years of released time seminary, mission interview by Assistant Apostle Packer in 1962, mission to Mississippi where we were told not to contact the Negro. BYU faculty interview by Apostle Stapley in 1977. Salt Lake temple marriage, Branch president in Nebraska, high council in Flagstaff, bishopric in Cache Valley. Then I read church history and was amazed at what I did not know. Read my story to learn why I left the mormon church.

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wasmormonAug 23, 2024

Benjamin Franklin on Treasure Seeking Seers. Franklin saw the folly and called it out as the “most egregious folly and madness.”

The church denied Joseph’s involvement with treasure digging until the evidence was no longer possible to refute or ignore. There is no doubt today that Joseph Smith was deeply involved with treasure digging.

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Benjamin Franklin on Treasure Seeking Seers - wasmormon.org

Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin, didn't know Joseph Smith since they lived in different times, but Joseph certainly knew of Ben Franklin. Ben Franklin did know however about many of the folk magic practices that Joseph's family still practiced a hundred years later. Franklin saw the folly and called it out as nonsense. He described the

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wasmormonAug 23, 2024

The Mormon Church exhibits traits commonly associated with cult-like behavior. The BITE™ Model of Authoritarian control is a framework to identify and analyze the ways cults and other high-control groups manipulate their members with mind control or undue influence. BITE stands for Behavior, Information, Thought, and Emotional control.

https://wasmormon.org/mormonism-and-the-cult-bite-model/

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Mormonism and The BITE Model - wasmormon.org

Determining whether The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (commonly known as the Mormon Church) qualifies as a cult hinges on various criteria. According to the BITE model, we find evidence that it meets several characteristics associated with cults. Note that the term "cult" carries negative connotations and lacks a universally agreed-upon definition, and

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wasmormonAug 21, 2024

Kevin W. Pearson, Holy Ghost Not Active For Doubters or Apostates

https://wasmormon.org/kevin-w-pearson-holy-ghost-not-active-for-doubters-or-apostates/

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Kevin W. Pearson, Holy Ghost Not Active For Doubters or Apostates - wasmormon.org

Salt Lake Area held a YSA conference where they also held a speed dating event which set a new world record for the number of people at a speed dating event (at 2,060). After receiving the award, Elder Pearson gave the keynote address to the YSA conference attendees. Kevin Pearson described three types of people:

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