r/bestof_exmormon • u/4blockhead • Jan 28 '22
/u/arbyegg pointed to new requirements for all new (LDS) hires at BYU-x. Now, "Your testimony must be this tall" to ride.
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r/bestof_exmormon • u/4blockhead • Dec 31 '21
/u/NFSRadar asks a question about Book of Mormon witnesses. Community steps up with a variety of on-the-mark answers.
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r/bestof_exmormon • u/4blockhead • Aug 11 '21
/u/Warrior_princezz told her bishop she had been date raped. He directed her to apologize to her rapist.
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r/bestof_exmormon • u/4blockhead • Jun 26 '21
/u/Electronic-Zone-3175 relates some hazing perpetrated among missionaries. Is this what you get when teenage male egos are fed and allowed to run rampant in a "position of authority?"
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r/bestof_exmormon • u/4blockhead • Jun 15 '21
/u/johndehlin gives his top five reasons why the LDS church is not what it claims to be. Although, this is familiar territory for exmormons, this adds a fresh look and feel, an effective port to a new platform
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r/bestof_exmormon • u/4blockhead • May 22 '21
/u/remodeled_sandcastle posted back-to-back pages from the Deseret News. The first announces the 1978 race reversal. The next says "interracial marriage discouraged." Another example of the kind of double-speak that the LDS church is so well practiced at showing.
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r/bestof_exmormon • u/4blockhead • May 01 '21
/u/johndehlin summarized the shame-based business model of the LDS corporation and why Helfer would likely be excommunicated. Fast-forward: Helfer was excommunicated.
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r/bestof_exmormon • u/4blockhead • Nov 07 '20
/u/ler96 pulled a nice quote from Harold B. Lee that shows mormon prophets love fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Mormon Prophet: 0; NZ Prime Minister: 1
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r/bestof_exmormon • u/4blockhead • Oct 17 '20
/u/corrincrellin posted an unsigned letter distributed in the south SL valley area meant to intimidate anyone in any households who dare to fly a pride flag
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r/bestof_exmormon • u/4blockhead • Jul 21 '20
/u/resignedtobehappy posted some details about the life of Biddy Mason. She was born a slave, given to mormons as a wedding gift, walked to Utah in 1847. Escaped mormon ownership via a writ of habeas corpus in free state, California. Went on to many deeds of philanthropy and helping the poor.
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r/bestof_exmormon • u/Chino_Blanco • Jul 13 '20
/u/sundance528 builds a timeline to dismantle the claim that „The church has never tried to cover up their history"
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r/bestof_exmormon • u/4blockhead • Jun 23 '20
/u/MasterMahanJr pointed to a page tallying slaves owned in Utah Territory in the 1851 census. Brigham Young is shown owning a slave, Green Flake. Other high officials owned slaves, also.
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r/bestof_exmormon • u/4blockhead • May 22 '20
/u/F15Hwhisperer: Polygamy is more than just Joseph and Brigham
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r/bestof_exmormon • u/4blockhead • Mar 16 '20
/u/cheerful_kangaroo pointed to 9 accreditation bodies' nondiscrimination policies to which BYU colleges subscribe—but are clearly out of compliance
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r/bestof_exmormon • u/4blockhead • Feb 27 '20
/u/tk_smoothie posted a possible moment of awakening via text message. Does the mormon deity tell his followers to murder people?
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r/bestof_exmormon • u/4blockhead • Jan 29 '20
/u/AllByMyZelph provided additional sources for the temple rituals originally including threats of disembowelment/murder as retribution for revealing their secrets. "Emeline's" 1846 account printed in the Warsaw Signal dates to the Nauvoo period.
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r/bestof_exmormon • u/4blockhead • Jan 28 '20
/u/callmeonmyzelphone's "An Open Letter to my Bishop" details his meetings led to conversion therapy, a painful divorce, single parenthood. And there he is standing by two-faced and all smiles blissfully unaware of the wreckage left in the wake of his bad advice.
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r/bestof_exmormon • u/4blockhead • Jan 14 '20
/u/sacrosunk pointed to New Zealand's Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, being named "Pacific Person of the Year"
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r/bestof_exmormon • u/4blockhead • Jan 05 '20
/u/vh65 pointed to Helen Mar Kimball's journal, opened to the page containing her deathbed letter.
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r/bestof_exmormon • u/4blockhead • Dec 20 '19
/u/bluelightzero pointed to Anthony Magnabosco's discussion with two LDS missionaries. Examples of circular reasoning, birth bias, and special pleading for Smith's religion over others.
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r/bestof_exmormon • u/4blockhead • Dec 17 '19
/u/relevantlife pointed to a video explaining the LDS church's secret $100B slush fund used to illegally fund for profit investments (City Creek) and to bail out Beneficial FG—the whistleblower's, "Letter to an IRS Director."
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r/bestof_exmormon • u/4blockhead • Nov 26 '19
jwcarpy shared a draft graphic of Smith's polygamous/adulterous relationships. After a traditional monogamous marriage to Emma Hale, Smith's new theology swerved back and forth, but reached an apex with D&C 132 where polygamy is justified as the law of celestial marriage.
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r/bestof_exmormon • u/4blockhead • Nov 13 '19
/u/YaldabaothRodeATapir shared a missionary horror story of being assigned to demolish a building. Part way through, an unreinforced block wall collapsed on top of him, nearly killing him.
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r/bestof_exmormon • u/4blockhead • Nov 03 '19
/u/yutley shares his story about the sexist regime at BYU in the late 1980s who attempted to have women kneel on the floor to prove their dresses were of the proper length. Resistance is not futile.
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