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Most ex-Mormons leave Mormonism and the LDS or RLDS Church because of intellectual reasons for finding the religion false or practices of Mormon organizations. The foremost reasons are disbelief both in Joseph Smith as a prophet [6] [7] and in the Book of Mormon as a religious and historical document.
Martha Nibley Beck, daughter of Mormon scholar Hugh Nibley and author of bestseller Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith. Sarissa Hahn, Entrepreneur; Steve Benson, cartoonist and grandson of LDS Church president Ezra Taft Benson [95] Patrick Califia, sexuality writer; Brian Evenson, American writer of literary and ...
According to Hugh Nibley, a noted Mormon apologist, some of those who leave the LDS Church "become sometimes feverishly active, determined to prove to the world and themselves that it is a fraud after all," while others "hold no rancor and even retain a sentimental affection for the Church—they just don't believe the gospel." However, neither ...
Dan Reynolds, lead singer of the rock band Imagine Dragons, opened up about why he chose to leave Mormonism. Speaking with People in an interview published on Sunday, July 7, Reynolds, 36, was ...
David Archuleta, former "American Idol" star, talks to NBC News about how he's reinventing himself with new music and a memoir in the works after coming out as queer in 2021 and leaving the Mormon ...
The letter spread throughout the Mormon blogosphere and LDS Church communities and became one of the most influential sites providing the catalyst for many people leaving the LDS Church and resigning their membership. [3] [2]
While the Mormon church doesn't object to women having one set of earrings, they don't encourage piercings or body modification as a whole. They warn that piercing other parts of the body can be ...
[178] [179] Church leadership and publications taught that Native Americans are descendants of Lamanites, a dark-skinned and cursed people from the Book of Mormon. [180] [179] More recently, LDS researchers and publications generally favor a smaller geographic footprint of Lamanite descendants.