by Farraday Apologists, we have to face facts. The Mormon Church is a dead parrot. Everything the critics say is basically true. Your excuses do not work. But what can you do? Your family is in the church, so you can’t leave. And you are an idealist: you really want…
Author: Faraday
Joseph Smith as Peeping Tom
by “Faraday” This essay hopes to solve a great mystery: the origins of the naked part of the endowment. The mystery Most people know that the signs and tokens of the temple come from Freemasons. And the Adam and Eve part comes from the book of Genesis. But where do…
“Why do you need to talk about ‘problems in the church’ with your spouse?”
Hellmut asked me to post this. It’s from a recent thread on FLAK, on the topic of marriage. I wrote: I attribute my divorce squarely to the church. Simply because the church forbade us from talking about the one topic we needed to talk about (problems in the church). If…
Twelve arguments and one proof of the Book of Mormon
In a recent discussion, Hellmut asked Seth R “Why do you think that the probability that the Book of Mormon is true is greater than one percent?” And Seth R. gave a number of reasons. I have summarised them formally, in the hope that they can be further refined and…
Adventures in online Mormonism. Or, my search for Truth.
This is a trip down memory lane, with some conclusions about the nature of truth. I recently decided to archive and forget my old Mormon-related web sites. AmberAle asked me for some dates regarding when they were created. This led to a stream of rambling reminiscences. So it seemed like…