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I wish also that we could just lay it all out there and talk about it. Hiding it, as usual, seems to cause a lot of trouble. I somewhat agree, but then I think "What can we really say about it?" From a correlation committee standpoint, the party line is impossible to draft, which is probably why th...

This comment may be totally irrelevant, so take it for what it is worth. I grew up in an area with few church members (we had six high schools in the same branch). Our seminary teacher was someone who had a lot of struggles, but as kids in his class we really didn't perceive it. He was open to our q...

Mike, Welcome! What a great yet difficult story. Thanks for sharing. I would recommend changing your reading list a bit at this point, leaning toward books that open up questions vs. books that try to be confident and certain about answers (such as the God Delusion). It's easy to exchange one black ...

Salo, I like this thought: As I said I think it was a failed social experiment. As far as BY's polygamy goes, polygamy was JS's baby and BY did the best he could with what JS gave him to work with, in the end it failed because the system was flawed and not of God IMO. One thing I was interested to r...

Salo - welcome. I enjoyed your intro. Personally, I think "humanism" is a very good place to be since it's pragmatic.

This is a topic that is very personal to me. I agree with all of the comments here, even though many are contradictory. When I was in college, I went through the BOM and wrote down all the things I didn't believe, disliked about it, thought were just laughable, etc. I kept these in a journal. I real...

There are probably pros & cons on both sides. I grew up the only Mormon in my graduating class in PA. As a result, I think I always felt like an outsider (despite having many friends), but distance also gave me perspective. When I went to BYU (in UT for my first time), I REALLY felt like an outsider...

I agree with Ray's perspective on this one. I think we can grow stronger as we try to understand all the theology including things we misunderstood previously.

I find myself scrutinizing everything. I find myself feeling (at this point) that this is in fact what God intended. Surely He does not want us to simply take everything at face value as it is spoonfed to us--how would that work for our eternal progression? I realize that in some circles in the chu...

Welcome, Lucy! I look forward to hearing your insights.