A lot of the faithful advice to avoid a faith crisis actually can make it worse. Same with a lot of the apologetics that just give alternative possibilities to the evidence. Things like: Doubt your doubts, Focus on the basics like prayer, scripture, church; Focus on primary

Doxxed …

Actually it confuses people when you say it’s not a health code. Especially when the promises linked to it are health related. Verse 18: “And all saints who remember to keep and do these sayings, walking in obedience to the commandments, shall receive health in their navel and

Thinking about how Joseph Smith copied a biblical name “Gilgal” (Joshua 4:19, etc.) and just tweaked it to “Gilgah” decades after the King James Bible was already sitting on his desk.

Is it possible that those who fall away or who don’t believe just have different DNA or minds that are just not compatible with religion? Brit Hartley is one of my favorite people she gave great insight into this recently.

Believers often paint Joseph Smith as a mindless oracle, an uneducated farm boy, a dumb puppet who never read a book, suddenly spitting out scripture from nowhere. A robot until Moroni “switched him on.” But why insist it all sprouted from nothing? Of course Joseph drew from

Apologists quote Lucy Mack Smith saying Joseph “hated reading” but ignore that she also said he entertained the family with detailed stories of ancient America as a kid. You can’t have it both ways.

Which is it? 🤔 Apologists: “The Book of Mormon has 19th-century ideas because Joseph absorbed them.” Also apologists: “Joseph was an uneducated farm boy who couldn’t read or access any of those ideas.” You don’t get to play both cards.

When people use Lucy Mack Smith to say Joseph didn’t like to read, they miss the second part of what Lucy says about Joseph being “far more given to meditation and deep study.”

There’s a neuroscience side effect from Covid, I think, that could have really pushed my shelf into a full-blown faith crisis. Putting that together.

People who brush it off with Sameism (“everyone’s an apologist”) only show they don’t know what they’re talking about.

It’s a great message. There is a reason Nelson has been repeating this.

stacker Emily G Yes, Josephus's works (e.g., Whiston's 1737 translation) were widely available in early 19th-century America, including in libraries near Palmyra, NY, by the 1820s. Adam Clarke's Bible commentary was published 1810-1826 and printed in the US by 1824. These were commonly

Amazing: “Satan’s hand shoved up your butt like a sock puppet.” “You hate God, that’s why it bothers you the most.” 🤯 Academic apologetic discourse, apparently. If there weren’t so many of these people I would never have kept this account going.

My EQ President wanted to chat today. PPI style. We sat down, he asked the normal questions, how’s the family, how’s work, how’s your spirituality? Told him I’m just treading water right now in all of it. Then I asked him how he’s doing. He opened up and told me all kinds of