There's a quotation over the back deal with in the CES Letter from President J. Reuben Clark which says, “If we have the reality, no damage can come from investigation. If we haven't the reality, it ought to be harmed.

In addition they did other abhorrent and unacceptable things which I just couldn't let slide or continue to be silent on and I had been compelled out of retirement. In the general public post on social media in March 2020, I mentioned:

That you are deluding yourself if you think that "All is perfectly in Zion" and that there is no validity or advantage into the so-called "anti-Mormon lies".

I have discovered that the single most vital query that one can request on their own when trying to decide on whether to essentially examine the LDS Church's truth of the matter statements is an individual concern: "What if it isn't accurate?"

I am not a scholar. I am just a regular dude who desired Formal answers to your LDS Church's fact crisis. I used to be accomplishing all the things I could to revive my testimony and also to attempt to produce the LDS Church legitimate.

"Jeremy Runnells just wishes to tear down my faith and go away me comfortless in the theological rubble."

I was accused by a Normal Authority of currently being the "chief of the anti-Mormon religion," which I locate Unquestionably hysterical. This assault is illuminating and humorous since it exhibits the amount of Mormons see corporations similar to a pyramid (top-down hierarchy with a robust chief at the top) and that there need to be a mustache-twirling chief somewhere that when they'd just attack and damage, The entire hierarchy / empire crumbles and collapses.

Like politics, it is now a polarizing document. I hope that not one person who sees, hears, or reads my feedback thinks I've something but like and respect for people who battle with issues of remaining inside the Church or leaving. If I seek to interject some humor from time to time, which my wife has frequently advised me never to do, you should know that it isn’t directed at any personal as I do know these things are genuine struggles.

Properly, that quotation essentially contradicts what Absolutely everyone that understood Joseph Smith stated about him. Even his own mom stated he didn’t read through much. But, let’s choose it. Allow me to try and summarize the argument.

“I believe that customers and investigators need to have the entire facts and knowledge within the desk...to have the ability to make a totally-educated and balanced decision regarding whether they wish to dedicate their hearts, minds, time, talents, money and lives to Mormonism. Just about anything less is an obstruction to your totally free agency of the individual.”

I might fairly him believe in the Church's narrative which i'm a dropped dim soul who shed my way than for him to personally suffer on account of his religion's truth crisis and his leaders' LDS Response to the CES Letter failings to accomplish the ideal detail.

I'm a type of previously spiritually misplaced and "apostate" souls whose testimony was destroyed by falsehoods I found around the evil internetz. But on Saturday evening, following your assistance at Typical Convention, I repented of my disillusionment, and it entirely worked.

I've learned quite a bit over the past seven+ yrs from the trenches addressing Mormon apologists and currently being mentored by Mormon historians.

A number of businesses and individuals have composed thorough responses into the promises manufactured while in the CES Letter.