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At the Door With God's Army

Submitted by Zaden, Apr 27, 2007 09:07

As an exmormon, I know from experience how effective the "brainwashing" can be in the LDS church. Anything that half-way resembles an attack against the church causes a Mormon to stop listening completely. This is compounded when articles like this express hearsay as facts. Case in point Joseph Smith had ~32 documented wives, a fact many Mormons still deny despite church produced videos that readily admit it. Brigham Young was the one with the 80+ wives. A small error like that is all it would take for an article like this on (that is trying to be honest and fair in it's approach) to be branded "anti-mormon" and therefore untrustworthy. Just a thought.

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Joseph Smith DID NOT have 84 wives---how in the world would you make this up and other comments unless you... [MORE]	Robert and Helen Wells	Apr 30, 2007 12:43
I really hope the show isn't as boring as the review is. I have to wonder what kind of review... [MORE]	Jared	Apr 29, 2007 23:24
In your article you stated, "But the disdain of its 19th-century founder, [MORE]	jsdefender	Apr 27, 2007 16:48
"But the disdain of its 19th-century founder, [MORE]	Tracy Hall Jr	Apr 27, 2007 11:59
The Nauvoo Expositor was a local newspaper who published an article about Joseph Smith's polygamy. The violence that was incited... [MORE]	Jerry	Apr 27, 2007 16:36
>The Nauvoo Expositor was a local newspaper who published an article about Joseph Smith's polygamy. Read it for yourself. Then decide.... [MORE]	Tracy Hall Jr	Apr 28, 2007 16:33
Around March 25TH of this year, 500,000 copies of a video; "Jesus Christ /Joseph Smith", were distributed across the country.... [MORE]	Jerry	Apr 27, 2007 10:58
Why didn't you talk about this religions tenants. Like the core belief in Jesus Christ? Like the first four principles... [MORE]	Bill Packard	Apr 27, 2007 10:31
Looks to me like you did a good job of putting your spin on this story. Your position regarding the... [MORE]	John Taylor	Apr 27, 2007 10:03
Always nice to hear an unbiased review. Too bad we didn't get one from Brendan Bernhard on the PBS Documentary... [MORE]	David Glick	Apr 27, 2007 09:44
As an exmormon, I know from experience how effective the "brainwashing" can be in the LDS church. Anything that half-way...	Zaden	Apr 27, 2007 09:07
I always wondered what it was about Harry Reid that I didn't like. [MORE]	Sir Joshua	Apr 27, 2007 08:45
One thing the documentary is unlikely to cover is the Church's similarity to First through Third Century Christians. Protestants and... [MORE]	Bot	Apr 27, 2007 06:54

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