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Coauthor:  Tony Nugent, Ph.D.

This decade has been called, "The Mormon Moment," the time that America's largest habitation-grown organized religion finally comes into its own every bit a part of the Christian tapestry. Even some LDS quirks seem to be turning into positives.  Shifting sexual mores have made Mormon polygamy and sacred undergarments a matter more than of slightly kinky fascination rather Puritan cloy.  And after expressing big disapproval over Large Honey, Church leaders  shifted strategies and met the hit musical, the "The Book of Mormon," with bemused credence, praising it "for actually nailing the Mormon sugariness, niceness, and sense of do-gooderness," and filling theater programs with their ain advertisements.

In an effort to reassure Evangelical voters, presidential candidate Paw Romney inserted the phrase "the same god" into his domestic policy fence against Barack Obama, and Baton Graham's website showed solidarity past removing Mormonism from a list of "cults."Since then, Mormon missionaries accept been quoted as saying, "Even Billy Graham says we are Christians." Over the course of 2012, the LDS Church building promoted "I'k a Mormon," a multi-million dollar marketing entrada seeking to portray Mormonism every bit mainstream.  And on December 10, 2013, the Mormon church renounced and denounced a part of its racist past.

But do Mormons and Evangelicals worship the same god? How mainstream are their behavior?

Dr. Tony Nugent, retired professor of religious studies, has compiled a listing of twelve teachings that Mormons tend to downplay. Dr. Nugent calls each of these beliefs "questionable." A quick read advise they likewise are far from mainstream.

1. The American Continent Was Originally Settled by Aboriginal Near Easterners.

The story of the Volume of Mormon (BoM) is that the American continent was originally settled by people from the ancient Most East who came across the body of water in boats between 5000 and 2500 years ago. This includes 4 groups: the Jaredites, who came from Mesopotamia after the fall of the Tower of Babel (3^rd Millennium BC), and three groups of Israelites who came in the half-dozen^th Century B.C.—Lehites from the tribe of Manasseh, Ishmaelites from the tribe of Ephraim, and Mulekites from the tribe of Judah. Reverse to this view, archaeological, historical, and genetic evidence indicates that the American continent was originally settled by Mongoloid people who came over the Bering land span during the last Ice Age and who are the ancestors of today'due south Native American people.

2. Native Americans Are Descendants of Ancient Israelites.

Much of the BoM story focuses on 2 groups of Israelites in the New World, the Nephites and the Lamanites, descended from two of the sons of Lehi of the tribe of Manasseh. These groups fought continually, just when Christ came from heaven after his ascension to visit them in Advertisement 34, they all believed in him and stopped fighting. However, in the 3^rd and four^th Centuries AD, when the Lamanites stopped believing in Christ, these peaceful relations concluded. Their renewed hostilities culminated in a bully religious war in Ad 385 at the colina Cumorah in upstate New York, in which the Lamanites were victorious and 230,000 Nephites were killed. The few surviving Nephites presently died, and the surviving Lamanites became the "American Indians."

Amid the issues with this scenario are that in that location is no show that any Native American groups are Semitic, but rather that they are Mongoloid; there are no surviving traces in their cultures of ancient Israelite customs, language, or religion; and there are no traces of their supposedly former Christian practices and behavior.

Then from where would Joseph Smith have gotten this story? The mistaken idea that the American Indians descend from the lost tribes of Israel was, in fact, a very popular thought in the United States in the early 19^th Century. The closest parallel to Joseph Smith'southward version of the idea is establish in Ethan Smith's View of the Hebrews, published in 1823, just four years before Joseph started working on the BoM. The many specific parallels between these 2 works have often been noted. How might Smith have known about this work? From Oliver Cowdery, i of Smith's scribes in the translation of the BoM and whose family unit attended the church in Vermont where Ethan Smith was pastor at the time he was writing his book. In her 1945 work, No Man Knows My History, Fawn Brodie writes, "Thus where the View of the Hebrews was but bad scholarship, the BoM was highly original and imaginative fiction." (Brodie, p. 48)

3. Dark Skin is a Sign of God'due south Curse, White Pare a Sign of God's Blessing.

In the BoM nighttime pare is a sign of God'due south curse, while white peel is a sign of his blessing. When the Lamanites displease God, "because of their iniquity….the Lord God did crusade a peel of blackness to come upon them" (two Nephi v:21). Later, when the Lamanites go Christians, "their curse was taken from them, and their skin became white like unto the Nephites" (iii Nephi two:15). Other racist passages in the scripture take merely been inverse by Mormon government—e.g., 2 Nephi 30:half-dozen, which originally referred to conversion to Christianity bringing about a "white and delightsome people," now reads, every bit of 1981, "a pure and delightsome people." As for blackness people, Joseph Smith taught that they are cursed as "sons of Cain." Brigham Young, the successor of Joseph Smith, stated: "Shall I tell y'all the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the called seed mixes his claret with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the constabulary of God, is decease on the spot. This will always be and then" (Journal of Discourses, vol. 10). Since blacks were a stigmatized race in Mormonism, blackness men were denied ordination to the priesthood in the LDS Church building. While the LDS Church building, under pressure, finally granted black men the priesthood in 1978, the racism in their Scriptures remains as offensive as e'er. Note:  The doctrine that blackness skin is a punishment was renounced by the Church building hierarchy in December 2013.

4.  The BoM is Based on a Historically Accurate and Believable Aboriginal Work.

Mormon authorities teach that the BoM is a translation from ancient records written in a "Reformed Egyptian" script on metal plates between the years 2500 BC and AD 421. Amongst the many reasons for doubting this claim are the following:

• Many unlike animals, plants, & manufactured goods are reported in the BoM story as being nowadays in the New Globe during this time menses. There is apparently no credible evidence that any of the following were present in the New Earth during this time period: cows, horses, oxen, asses, goats, sheep, pigs, honeybees, elephants, barley, wheat, silk, iron & contumely metallurgy, steel, metal coins, swords, chariots, wheels,compasses, and metallic plates inscribed with writing.
• Many passages in the BoM repeat One-time and New Testament biblical passages word-for-give-and-take. Only how would Nephi, for instance, who lived in the 6^thursday Century BC, know passages in Onetime Testament books such as Malachi, written later his fourth dimension, and in the New Attestation, written 600-700 years subsequently?
• Analogously, why would distinctively Christian practices and beliefs, including the establishment of a "Church of Christ," the exercise of baptism, and belief that those not baptized are damned to be tortured in hell for eternity, be constitute in aboriginal records said to have been written before the outset of the Christian Era?
• In the 2d poetry of the BoM Nephi says, "Yea, I make a record in the linguistic communication of my male parent, which consists of the learning of the Jews and the linguistic communication of the Egyptians."(one Nephi 1:2). Later in the work Moroni says that his record is "in the characters which are called amid us the reformed Egyptian" (Mormon 9:32). These are problematic statements. Beginning of all, the term "Jew" refers to the people of the tribe of Judah and those from the other tribes who joined with them, starting with the menstruation of the Babylonian exile (which is after Lehi's family has left Jerusalem). In addition, there is no biblical or other evidence that Israelites of the half dozen^th Century BC spoke Egyptian or wrote using whatsoever of the forms of Egyptian hieroglyphics.

5. Joseph Smith Translated the Book of Mormon from Gilt Plates.

The Mormon story is that the Nephite military commander and prophet Moroni buried a history of his people, written on "gold plates," in the hill Cumorah in AD 421. 1400 years afterward, on the night of September 22-23, 1823, Moroni, now having go an angel, visits 17-yr-erstwhile Joseph Smith in his bedchamber and tells him where the plates are buried. It happens to be simply iii miles south of where Smith lives. He goes there and sees the plates in a stone box, but as soon every bit he tries to accept them the angel forbids him. He returns to the aforementioned spot on the aforementioned night of the year for the next two years, without success. So, by looking into his seer-stone or "peep rock," a chocolate-colored, egg-shaped stone which he had establish when digging a well in 1822 and used to find lost and buried treasure, Smith learns that to be successful he must marry Emma Hale and have her with him to Cumorah. So on Sept. 22, 1827, he and Emma conduct a "black magic" ritual: at midnight, dressed entirely in black, they drive a black wagon drawn by a black equus caballus to the loma. Joseph unearths the box and takes the plates, forth with some magical eyeglasses made out of stones (chosen "interpreters" and "the Urim and Thummim") with which to decipher the "reformed Egyptian" language in which the texts on the plates are written. According to Smith, the plates were "six inches wide and eight inches long and non quite as thick as common tin can;" they were "filled with engravings in Egyptian characters and bound together in a volume, as the leaves of a book with 3 rings running through the whole;" and the stack of metal pages stood about six inches high.

Smith's master translation process involved putting the interpreters (or his "peep-stone") in a hat, putting his confront in the lid (he didn't need to view the plates themselves), and dictating to a scribe. After 116-initial pages of translation were lost past Smith's scribe Martin Harris, Moroni supposedly took away the interpreters, and Smith was forced to rely on his quondam and trusty peep-rock. Smith's translation was completed at the terminate of June 1829, and the BoM was commencement published by E.B. Grandin in Palmyra, NY, in March 1830. Where can we see these marvelous gold plates? We tin can't, because Smith gave them back to Moroni.

6. There Are Testimonies to the "Gold Plates" from 11 Credible Witnesses.

Only, say Mormon texts, there were 11 "witnesses" to the gilded plates! These witness statements are printed at the beginning of each copy of the BoM. Iii witnesses declare that an angel of God showed them the engravings upon the plates, while the 8 others claim that that Joseph Smith showed them the plates with their engravings, which they also handled. Regarding the first iii witnesses, Martin Harris said he had "never claimed to have seen the plates with his natural eyes," but merely with "spiritual eyes." Oliver Cowdery was a relative of Smith'due south, served every bit his scribe in translating the BoM, and was accepted to having otherworldly visions. He told Smith that he had seen the gold plates in a "vision" even before the two of them had met. The third, David Whitmer, later said that the angel he saw "had no advent or shape," that he merely had the "impression" of an angel.

A few years afterward the BoM was published these 3 witnesses were excommunicated and harshly denounced and insulted by Smith.  He described Whitmer as "an ass to bray out cursings instead of blessings."  He denounced Cowdery every bit "too mean to mention" and the leader of a gang of "scoundrels of the deepest degree."  He said Martin Harris was "and then far beneath contempt that to notice him  would be too cracking a sacrifice for a admirer to make."

Regarding the other 8 witnesses, one of them was Joseph Smith'southward father, two of them were his brothers, and the other five were shut relations of David Whitmer. All the Whitmer family witnesses were later excommunicated, although David eventually rejoined the church building.

7. Ancient Prophecies in Mormon Scriptures Foretell the Coming of Joseph Smith.

Joseph Smith, Jr. couldn't resist the temptation of injecting a cocky-serving prophecy of himself into the BoM. In the section of the book supposedly written in about 600 BC an Israelite by the name of Nephi reports that the biblical patriarch Joseph uttered this prophecy: "A seer shall the Lord my God raise up," and "his name shall exist called subsequently me; and information technology shall be afterward the name of his father" (2 Nephi 3:6,xv). Here we have a prophecy like a riddle, the answer to which is, of course, Joseph Smith, Jr. and Sr. Not satisfied to accept this prophecy of himself and his begetter only in the BoM, Smith goes farther by adding nearly-identical verses to the text of the Bible. In the final chapter of Genesis in Smith'southwardInspired Version of The Holy Scriptures, the Lord says to Joseph merely before he dies in Arab republic of egypt: "That seer will I anoint…..and his proper name shall be called Joseph; and it shall be later the name of his father; and he shall be like unto you." This and the many other "prophecies" in Mormon scripture are cases of what is known in biblical scholarship as avaticinium ex eventu, a "prophecy after the fact." And information technology is 1 where the ulterior motive of the perpetrator of the hoax could not be more evident.

viii. Joseph Smith Restored What Catholics Removed from the Bible.

What is the basis for this and the many other Mormon additions to the Bible? As explained in 1 Nephi, these are needed because the "Keen and Beastly Church, which is most beastly to a higher place all other churches," traditionally understood in Mormonism as the Roman Cosmic Church, has "taken away" from the Bible "many plain and precious things." But in fact this couldn't accept been the work of the Catholics, because there's no sign of these omissions in the Hebrew Bible, written several hundred years before in that location were whatever Christians or churches! It must have been the nefarious Jews who did it, which would explain why then many of the passages Joseph Smith identifies as having been removed from the Bible and which he restores are its Former Attestation (< Hebrew Bible) references to Jesus Christ. Take parts of the vi^th chapter of Genesis in the Inspired Version: God says to Adam, "Plow unto me….and repent of all thy transgressions, and be baptized, even in water, in the name of mine Only Begotten Son, who is full of grace and truth, which is Jesus Christ" (Genesis 6:53). And so "Adam cried unto the Lord, and was caught abroad by the Spirit of the Lord, and was carried down into the h2o, and was laid under the water, and was brought forth out of the water; and thus he was baptized" (Genesis half-dozen:67).

9.  The LDS Church building's Theological Doctrines Are Not Significantly Different from Those of Mainstream Christian Denominations.

In the last few decades LDS authorities accept fabricated a major attempt to downplay its distinctive teachings (and practices) in order to nowadays as a "mainstream" Christian denomination. These distinctive doctrines include the following: (The last two were taught by Joseph Smith but are not official doctrines of the LDS church.)

• God the Begetter, God the Son, and the Holy Ghost are three dissever divine beings (Mormonism is anti-Trinitarian).
• In his pre-mortal beingness Jesus Christ, the literal Son of God the Begetter, was the LORD (= Jehovah/Yahweh) of the One-time Attestation
• Humans take pre-mortal existences as spirit-children of God the Father and a Heavenly Mother.
• Humans can become angels, and angels tin become humans, e. g., Adam used to exist St. Michael (refer to Temple Endowment anniversary), Noah used to be St. Gabriel, and the Nephite human Moroni became the angel Moroni.
• Matter has always existed, and then the Creation was not ex nihilo.
• There is no "hell" in the traditional Christian sense simply rather a spirit prison house where wicked spirits are cleansed in preparation for their resurrection.
• A deceased person who was never baptized can become to the Celestial Kingdom equally a result of a proxy baptism in a Mormon temple.
• The highest level of the Angelic Kingdom is reserved for couples who have been "sealed" in a Mormon temple for a life of "eternal marriage."
• God the Male parent used to be a human being living on the earth (Joseph Smith, "King Follett Discourse," 1844)
• Humans tin become Gods (be exalted) in the future and dwell in the highest level of the Celestial Kingdom. (Joseph Smith, "King Follett Discourse," 1844)

1o. "If ye abide not that covenant [plurality of wives] then are ye damned."

Since the 19th Century the LDS church building has denied that polygamy is a part of its cadre doctrines, and many Mormons deny that Joseph Smith was a polygamist. However, the doctrine of "plural marriage," referring in this case to a man having more than one married woman (polygyny), was revealed to Joseph Smith at Nauvoo, IL, on July 12, 1843, and was enshrined in 1876 equally Section 132 of Doctrine and Covenants (D&C), one of the LDS Church'southward scriptures. At the same time Section 101 in the early edition of the D&C, specifying the rule of monogamy, was removed. In this new "revelation," God declares plurality of wives as essential for attainment of godhood (article twenty), that those who reject it are damned (article 4), and that if Emma Smith rejects Joseph's other marriages he will destroy her (article 54). This revelation was kept secret from the general church membership until Brigham Young fabricated it known in 1852.

The principle of plural marriage in Mormonism has its roots in 1832, when Joseph Smith told his innermost circle that "he had inquired of the Lord concerning the principle of plurality of wives, and he received for an answer…that it is a true principle, simply the time had not yet come for it to be practiced." At about that time, when Joseph and Emma had get boarders at the home of John and Elsa Johnson in Hiram, Ohio, people in the neighborhood suspected that Joseph was having a sexual relationship with their daughter, 15-yr old Marinda Nancy Johnson. Co-ordinate to a statement by Marinda'southward blood brother Luke Johnson, on March 24, 1832 "a mob of forty or l…entered his room in the eye of the night….he was so seized by as many equally could get concur of him, and taken most twoscore rods from the house…they tore off the few dark clothes that he had on, for the purpose of emasculating him, and had Dr. Dennison in that location to perform the performance; but he refused to operate. The mob…poured tar over him, and and then stuck feathers in it and left him." Early the following twelvemonth xvi-year-onetime Fanny Alger moved into the Smith house as a domestic servant, and in February or March Joseph took her equally his plural wife. He kept this secret from Emma, but in 1835 she caught them in flagrante delicto and ejected Fanny from the house. This incident led to a severe rift between Smith and his collaborator Oliver Cowdery, who referred to it as "a dirty, nasty, filthy thing."

These conflicts apparently did little to alter Smith's course of action. "Joseph continued to take plural wives throughout the 1830's in Ohio and Missouri, and he married with even greater frequency in Nauvoo in the early 1840's." In his lifetime Smith "married at least thirty-three women, and probably as many as forty-eight." (Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven, pp. five, 119-121)

Mormons who are taught that Joseph was a "devoted husband" (see the LDS Church's website) should be reminded that Emma Smith never accepted the principle or the practice of plural marriage. After Joseph'southward death she did not join the Mormons moving due west to Utah, led by the polygamist Brigham Young. Instead she stayed behind and joined the anti-polygamist Reorganized LDS Church (known today every bit the Community of Christ). While the practice of polygamy has been forbidden in the LDS Church since the "1890 Manifesto," it is all the same enshrined in the revealed Scriptures as necessary for obtaining "godhood."

11. Joseph Smith Translated the Book of Abraham from Egyptian Papyri.

In July of 1835 a man past the name of Michael Chandler brought some Egyptian mummies and papyri which had been excavated about the ancient city of Thebes to Kirtland, OH, and sold them to Joseph Smith. Although Smith had no knowledge of the aboriginal Egyptian linguistic communication or writing, he nevertheless "translated" some of these papyri, and in 1842 published the results along with three "facsimiles" (with interpretations) as the Book of Abraham. In 1880, xxx-six years after Smith's death, this work was incorporated as Part 2 of the LDS Church's scripture known as The Pearl of Great Price. In Smith's "translation" the patriarch Abraham tells a story of traveling from Chaldea to Egypt, where a priest lays him on an altar to sacrifice him, but he is miraculously saved by an affections of God; he gives a discourse about the universe, fourth dimension, and stars, including the star/planet Kolob, which is closest to the throne of God; and he provides a polytheistic paraphrase of the first two chapters of Genesis which substitutes the word "Gods" for the biblical "God" and "Lord God."

Many prominent nineteen^th and xx^thursday Century Egyptologists have examined the Joseph Smith papyri, including the ane from the Egyptian "Book of Breathings" which is thought to be the specific papyrus which Smith translated as the main text of the Book of Abraham. All the papyri are inscribed with hieratic funerary texts, and the "Book of Breathings" is dated to the 1^st Century BC or Advertizement, 2000 years after Abraham supposedly lived. Information technology is the unanimous opinion of the many Egyptologists who have examined the papyri that the text of Smith'southward Book of Abraham, together with his related interpretations of the papyrus "facsimiles," carry no resemblance any to the papyri texts. The Book of Abraham is, in the words of these renowned Egyptologists, an "impudent fraud" (A. H. Sayce, Oxford Univ.), "absurd" (W. M. Flinders Petrie, London Univ.), a work by an "absolutely ignorant" person (James H. Breasted, Univ. of Chicago), a work whose "explanations [of the facsimiles] are completely wrong" (Richard A. Parker, Brownish Univ.), a "pure fabrication" (Arthur C. Mace, Metropolitan Museum of Art), a "work of pure imagination" (S. A. B. Mercer, Western Theological Seminary).

12. Joseph Smith Was a Highly Ethical, Honest, Truth-Seeking, Law-Abiding Person.

Although Joseph Smith was clearly very charismatic, there is considerable prove that the official Mormon view of his pure moral character is a fiction. When Smith became famous equally the "Mormon Prophet," people who knew him from his early years were aghast, and they express their feelings in the following signed affidavits:

Mrs. Southward. F. Anderick: "Jo was pompous, pretentious…claimed he could tell where lost or hidden things and treasures were buried. He deceived many farmers."

Isaac Butts: "I have oftentimes seen Jo drunk. He had a forked witch-hazel rod, later on a peep-stone with which he claimed he could locate buried money or hidden things."

W. R. Hine: "I heard a human say who was a neighbor to the Mormon Smith family, that they were thieves, indolent, the lowest, meanest family he ever saw or heard of."

Joseph Rogers: "Farmers said he as a terror to the neighborhood and that he would either accept to go to Land prison, exist hung, or leave the county, or he would exist killed. Jo contrived in every way to obtain coin without work. The farmers claimed that non a week passed without Jo stole something. I knew at least 1 hundred farmers in the towns of Phelps, Manchester, and Palmyra, Northward.Y., who would brand out that Jo Smith the Mormon prophet was a a liar, intemperate and a base imposter…He could read the grapheme of men readily and could tell who he could gull."

Mrs. Sylvia Walker: "They [the Smith family] were the everyman family I e'er knew. They worked very little and had the reputation of stealing everything they could lay their hands on….When Jo told his neighbors near finding gilt plates no one believed him nor paid any attention to it, he had humbugged them and then much."

On August 1, 1831, Joseph Smith received a revelation which became Section 58 of Doctrine and Covenants. Poetry 21 of that section states: "Let no man break the laws of the state, for he that keepeth the laws of God hath no need to intermission the laws of the country" (D&C 58:21). This revelation is at odds with his own life history.  Beginning at to the lowest degree as early as 1826, when he was 25 years old, until his death, Smith was continuously in trouble with legal authorities. In his lifetime Smith had to defend himself in twoscore-viii criminal cases and had a total of over 200 suits brought against him. His troubles with the constabulary acquired the parents of his showtime wife, Emma Hale, to disown their daughter. Many of Smith'south trials are attributed past Mormons to religious persecution. Nonetheless, his legal troubles predate his religious proclamations. Smith's start known trial, on March 20, 1826, in Due east Bainbridge, NY, he was arrested, jailed, charged, and bedevilled of being "a disorderly person and an imposter" and "falsely pretending to discover lost appurtenances."

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The questionable beliefs and teachings outlined above, as well as others non discussed, accept created issues for Mormons, their leaders, and the LDS Church building from the religion's beginnings until today. The Church does non allow members to openly and independently investigate or question its core behavior or historical claims, or to challenge its leadership or cadre values. It does not allow  difficult-to-swallow doctrines to exist discussed with potential converts earlier they accept digested simpler ones (called "milk earlier meat"), nor for these doctrines to be publicly disseminated. When members do these things, and practice not leave the Church building voluntarily, they are "disfellowshipped" or excommunicated.  Witness the famous modern-day 1993 case of the "September Six."

"Lying for the Lord" is the term some ex-Mormons employ for the Mormon practice of non telling the whole truth or dissimulating when necessary to further the paradigm and interests of the Church. In the 19th Century, when the clash between Mormons and mainstream Christians was more overt, deception was more overt every bit well.  Examples oft cited are the denials past LDS leaders and members when they were charged with palliating and practicing polygamy ("plural marriage"). Since polygamy became illegal throughout the United States in the mid-19^thursdayCentury, church leaders such as Joseph Smith, Brigham Immature and Heber Kimball, too as members who practiced polygamy were breaking the law, so that secrecy and deprival were considered necessary to protect the church.  At times deception assumed the status of a religious duty.  This stance led to perjury by LDS President Joseph Fielding Smith and others during the Reed Smoot Congressional Hearings of 1904-7.

The historical necessity of self-protective deception creates a conundrum in that the Mormon religion strongly values honesty both in individual life and in its public image.  Nonetheless the result of deception in Mormonism runs deeper than a affair of "situational ethics." Consider the following statements by Mormon leaders:

Joseph Fielding Smith, the tenth president of the LDS Church (1970-72): "If Joseph Smith was a deceiver, who willfully attempted to mislead the people, so he should be exposed; his claims should be refuted, and his doctrines shown to be simulated." (Doctrines of Salvation, Vol. 1, p. 188).

Orson Pratt, elder and member of the original Quorum of the LDS Church building: "The Volume of Mormon…must be either true or false. If true, it is 1 of the most important messages ever sent from God to human being…If simulated, it is ane of the virtually cunning, wicked, bold, deep-laid impositions ever palmed upon the world, calculated to deceive and ruin millions" (Introduction,Divine Authenticity of the Book of Mormon, 1850).

Should Mormonism be founded in an elaborate hoax, every bit much evidence suggests, then charade is not simply an occasional practice, but the foundation structure upon which the entire edifice of the Mormon religion has been erected. Mormons of good organized religion are then inescapably caught between the demands of doctrine and their core moral values of honesty and integrity.

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Valerie Tarico is a psychologist and freelance author, and the author of Trusting Doubt: A One-time Evangelical Looks at Old Beliefs in a New Lite.  Dr. Tony Nugent is a symbologist and retired professor of religious studies.

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