The Beginning
I lost my religion, why? Because I studied it and it didn’t make rational sense. After losing that one I studied others, still none made any sense. Eventually I began to lean agonistic, even atheistic...
View ArticleSeven Steps to an Authentic Life.
1. Be honest, brutally so, fear of truth leads to fear of opinion, fear of opinion leads to submitting your desires to others demands. 2. Number 1 applies to yourself first and foremost, be honest...
View ArticleThe church is perfect, people in it aren’t
This is a saying I heard a lot growing up. It was typically used to excuse leaders and their mistakes. As a believer I found comfort it in it too, I figured I wasn’t perfect and that is ok. These days...
View ArticleIt’s Not Her Fault
There is a girl I love very much, more than anything else in the world actually. She likes nice things, she is a bit of a perfectionist, a rule abider, outspoken and friendly. We are opposites in a lot...
View ArticleSlivers
As I was helping my daughter get a sliver out of her toe, I realized there is a life lesson in slivers. You can leave it in, enduring a small amount of pain for a long time, left there, it could...
View ArticleEndless Loop
Skeptic, Here is a bit of history or doctrine that doesn’t make sense to me. Believer, That can’t be true you are looking at lies or misunderstanding. Skeptic, Here is the documentation of what I am...
View ArticleCome Listen to a Profet’s Voice Again
Thinker of Thoughts continues his interview and discovers what led to the theology of the Fridge!! Welcome to part 2, chill out and be cool ye icicles of the Fridge. Part 1 is here in case you are...
View ArticleLosing Faith, Finding Hope
Faith transitions can be rough. Especially if your faith was a thing that you clung to in times of need. I remember one of my very first spiritual experiences. I was a young kid, I had lost my dad’s...
View ArticleThe Great Firewall of China and Washing of Brains
In my day job I regularly go to China, an interesting experience to say the least. On my travels there I typically visit Taiwan, Hong Kong as well as the China mainland. One thing that always gets me...
View ArticleThe role of the LDS church in developing torture
The brutal “enhanced interrogation techniques” employed by the CIA to extract information from suspected terrorists were developed by two Mormon psychologists, Bruce Jessen and James Mitchell. 1 The...
View ArticleWord Twisting and Wet Paint
I remember general conference the first year after realizing my religion wasn’t true. It was the birth of the famous doubt your doubts meme by Elder Ucthdorf. You remember it right? In fact it was a...
View ArticleOn Worthiness and Respect
Often when I point out the problems with believing in religion, particularly in the more specific cases like killing because ‘God said so’ or coercing young teens into marriage under penalty of eternal...
View ArticleCalling Evil Good and Good Evil
So all things Mormon have kind of exploded over a new change to church policy preventing kids from joining the church if their parents are gay. Let’s look at scriptural support for this move: 2 Nephi 5...
View ArticleDear Mormon parents, tread lightly, your gay kids are listening.
Dear Mormon Friends, I appreciate your loving, compassionate words and the way you have reached out to me. I love you and will always love you. I understand that for someone who loves the church and...
View ArticleMore Problems with Polygamy and Children of Homosexuals
Joseph Smith once said: “Our Heavenly Father is more liberal in His views, and boundless in His mercies and blessings, than we are ready to believe or receive…”1 Of course these days gay peoples kids...
View ArticleMourning with France and 100 Other Nations
While I mourn with France today, I have been reminded that I selectively express my mourning for grievous events in Western civilization. I tend to be more emotionally affected by tragedies in Western...
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