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Mormonism is one of the saddest aspects of American/19th Century culture. Your religion is a cult, and has been lying to you since you were a young child.

Recently, your church has become a lobbyist group and not a religion. If they were, then it would support their polygamist beliefs they have fought so hard to cover up.

Your church is now a corporation, like Wal-Mart and Disney. True faith exists in your heart and you know this. The separation of church and state has made our county what it is–and affords us the right to say what we want. The Mormon church doesn’t allow this–you know it and I know it.

It is hard to escape a cult–and you can do so–they can not harm you and even if your love ones feel differently, there are plenty more who have your back. I promise.

Let me get something straight. You consider “treasure-hunting/magic” to be a “heinous” sin or flaw?

Really?

One question, though: Did you not get any kind of confirmation from the Spirit before going on your mission? Or even while on your mission? Sacrificing two years of your life without getting any kind of empirical evidence that the church is true is, frankly, a bit crazy. Such empiricism is possible, and Joseph Smith taught that it was actually necessary. These percentages you’re throwing around (the church has an x-percent chance of being true) don’t make sense in that context.

Dawkins contends that Hitler was a good Catholic, and that is why he wanted to kill all the Jews. That is madness. I believe in actuality, Hitler became a pagan, and in that sense an atheist, and fought against all Christian religions. Was Stalin not the most well-known atheist of the 20th century? What a nice guy he was, with his endless murders and imprisonments, blowing up churches, etc. And then we have Mao. Dawkins cannot easily disassociate himself from such stalwarts of atheism.

But if you want an expert’s treatment of the topic, you might take a look at a book entitled Darwinian Fairy Tales: Selfish Genes, Errors of Heredity, and Other Fables of Evolution by David Stove. It has the unusual distinction of being both rigorous and funny. It was written by an Australian atheist/agnostic philosopher who just could not abide the illogical nonsense spewed out by the politically motivated “atheist fundamentalist” lobby. He would prefer to have no creation story at all than to accept the orthodox evolutionist’s fevered explanations.

Or have you tried Phillip Johnson’s Darwin on Trial? As a law professor, with an interest in examining all aspects of an argument, including the hidden assumptions, he makes some useful points.

I am a Mormon, but that has little to do with examining the numerous errors and many frauds of evolution. Except that because Mormonism claims many more spiritual truths than most other religions, it does have more to lose to the totally materialistic negation of all spiritual matters – no spirits, no preexistence, no Satan, no God, no Christ, no resurrection, no afterlife, no prophets in any age, etc. One cannot “reconcile” Mormonism with atheism/evolution – they are polar opposites. But good science has finally put evolution in its properly limited place in The Edge of Evolution by Michael Behe. Evolutionists want to claim to be the source of and controllers of all truth, but they have tried to reach far beyond what actual science, logic, and philosophy can support. If you find weaknesses in men of religion, you might also look a little closer at some of those “heroic” evolutionists. They are certainly not noted for their humility.

Kent Huff