“I just wanted to congratulate you on your courage to go up against the Mormon giant. I also applaud your efforts to back up this work with real research. The Mormons nearly ruined my life and, for a time, I feared them more than I can describe. As a young mother of three children, to be fired from my job, harassed, bankrupted, followed and systematically torn down, was the worst experience of my life. Nearly 20 years have passed, but the scars are still there. Your Web page is not a hate page—no more than their stupid ramblings on the Web are hate pages. They are a dangerous group who prey on the religiously ignorant and bring them into their fanatical fold. From there, the brainwashing process commences.
“I believe there is still free speech in American. I read nothing ‘hateful’ on your Web site and I send you my best wishes for your work. I never had the courage to do anything about what they did to me. Happily, I can say that I managed to raise my three children alone (with not one penny of child support from my religious, Mormon Bishop, ex-husband). All of my children are mentally healthy, free-thinking, college graduates. I kept them insulated from the Mormon lies and fairy tales. They grew up to be good and kind and tolerant people. Again, I salute you and your efforts”—(Name Withheld).
Don’t Surrender Your Self-Esteem
Before delving into the other essays on Mormonism, I want to warn you of the response you’ll be receiving should you decide to resist and openly oppose Mormonism for what it truly is. Mormon “intellectuals” will do everything in their power to demolish your self-esteem. They do this by accusing you of being affiliated with some “hate group,” by informing you that you have been reported to the FBI as a member of a “hate group,” by calling you bigot, and by questioning your IQ.
They will try their utmost to psychoanalyze you in an effort to “freak you out” and to induce you to question your own sanity—and all in an effort to persuade you to retract your opposition to Mormonism. Now get this: They use the same tactics homosexuals use against their critics!
If you speak out against homosexuality, you’re a member of some “hate group,” a bigot, and burdened with some mental derangement. Mormon leaders, “intellectuals,” editors, and “guardians of the party” apparently have been trained to use these tools when their “feet are put to the fire” and their doctrines are put to the test. I know. I’ve been the recipient of all of these tools since the very inception of my opposition to Mormonism. Hate mail from this cult’s “intellectual custodians” has been abundant. There are strong indications some of them have even attempted to get my Website removed from the Internet. But I refuse to be deterred. So if you go public with your dissent, be prepared to receive lots of hate mail.
Good Neighbors
The average Mormon or
Latter-Day Saint is congenial, law-abiding, moral, and family-oriented. They make good neighbors. They know nothing about this cult’s teachings but what its leaders—Bishops, “intellectual caretakers,” editors, “guardians of truth,” and “anti-Mormon fallacy watchdogs”—tell them. These are the ones who are expected to defend this cult's walls against onslaughts.
No Hatred Here
Let it be known, now and forever, that I do
not harbor hatred in my heart toward
any Mormon—or toward any homosexual, exhibitionist, voyeur, Roman Catholic, Muslim—regardless of color or lifestyle. My chief ministry is reformation. I opt for
change in both the religious and social domains. That’s where the good Lord has planted me, and that’s where I must take root and grow.
Please Note This
Irrespective of my affirmation above that I do not harbor hatred in my heart toward Mormons, I received the following note from one of my Website correspondents. Read it carefully and you’ll get an idea of the brand of opposition and the quality of hate mail I’ve been receiving. And this is only one example among many others. The strangest thing about the following note is that the author had been informed over and over
via E-Mail of my sentiments in relation to hate, love, and “hate groups,” as expressed in the paragraph above. My efforts to get through to him were futile. Here’s the letter. Please note my comments afterwards.
“Application has been made to post your Website as a hate group. We can only pray that it be accepted so that we may warn individuals to stay clear of spiritual derelicts as you. Your Web-actions will be watched. All hate groups like yours will be watched. Keep your anti-Mormon garbage to yourself and consider a retraction in that garbage paper of yours, to the Mormon people, for every damaging statement you have ever made against them.”
Hear Ye, Hear Ye!
I have never once been affiliated with a hate group, nor have I personally known one. I’m one-hundred percent opposed to them. Our country has come to an eerie crossroads when its citizens cannot wage opposition against what they deem to be wrong, harmful, counterfeit, and unjust without being accused of membership in some “hate group.”
What has happened with the freedom to express our views and to voice our opposition? Must we be hounded by antagonists and neurotics, like the author above, because we speak out? Will the time come when liberal lawmakers try to deprive us of the freedom to dissent? Will public opposition be outlawed by humanists whose minds and hearts have been swayed by the forces of evil? Will the day arrive when, for fear of reprisal, we dare not speak out? God forbid!
Only Mormons send me letters like the one above. The following letter came from a non-Mormon. It speaks for itself.
“Dear Sir: Thank you so very much for your studies on Mormonism! My older brother is into this Church so heavily that he eventually pushed the family away. After graduating from high school, he went on his ‘mission’ for several stupid years. He’s now 28 and still single. He can’t get a woman to even look his way because he wants 12 children.
“Don’t laugh yet. It gets even better. Now he says he’s an ‘elder of the High Priesthood’ and when he dies he’ll be exalted to the highest level, next to God. He says I will burn in hell because I drink caffeine and alcohol and because at age 15, I made the Mormon President so mad by ‘disobeying the Church’ that I was excommunicated—my soul damned to hell.
“Sorry this is so long, but I just wanted you to know that you really made me feel good about myself and my decision to tell The Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to kiss my bottom. Thank you so very much, Sir, and if you have any more information on how ignorant the Mormons are, please send it to me so I can confront my brother with it.”
Mountain Meadows Massacre
As a matter of reality, sects and cults with a history of murdering those who are not aligned with them may be labeled “hate groups.” The Mormon cult qualifies. At Mountain Meadows in Southern Utah, September 8-14, 1857, Mormons and Indians, working in unison, massacred 127 non-Mormon emigrants from Arkansas. The order for the massacre was traced to the Mormon Hierarchy. This is a matter of history, and it may be explored by referring to any reputable encyclopedia. For a detailed description of this hideous crime, click on
Mountain Meadows Massacre.
The Mormon Hierarchy may not be ordering the massacre of non-Mormons today, but yesteryear’s Mormons certainly have the blood of innocent people on their hands. Consequently, today’s Mormons should think twice before accusing others of being associated with “hate groups.”
Mormonism And Archaeology
This cult asserts that “there is some archaeological evidence in support of certain physical or historical aspects of
The Book of Mormon” (Wade Englund, Website defender and guardian of the Mormon cult, under “Fallacy Alert”). The assertion has proven to be devastating for Mormonism. Joseph Smith claimed that his
Book of Mormon “is the most correct of any book on earth.” Archaeology, however, has failed to substantiate its claims about what occurred in the Americas long ago. The Smithsonian Institute remarked that archaeologists see “no direct connection between the archaeology of the New World and the subject of the book” (
The Case For Christ, p. 107). Authors John Ankerberg and John Weldon, writing on the subject, concluded:
“In other words, no Book of Mormon cities have ever been located, no Book of Mormon person, place, nation, or name have ever been found, no Book of Mormon artifacts, no Book of Mormon scriptures, no Book of Mormon inscriptions...nothing which demonstrates the Book of Mormon is anything other than myth or invention has ever been found” (The Facts on the Mormon Church, 1991, p. 30).
In contrast, the story paints a different picture for the New Testament scriptures. Archaeological findings have confirmed the Bible’s accuracy in regards to names, places, and cities. For documented evidence of this, I suggest you read chapter 5 of The Case For Christ by Lee Strobel, Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1998.
Rapidly Expanding
Mormonism is the fastest growing cult in America. Hundreds of thousands of innocent minds and hearts have been ensnared and bewitched by this bizarre system of religion. It will not be halted as long as you and I hide our heads in the sand and “see nothing, hear nothing, and do nothing.” I beg you to continue reading what follows in reference to the Mormon cult by clicking now on....
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