🚨‼️This breaks my heart. A young man is gone, a wife and family are grieving, and there is nothing amusing or victorious about that. I do not post this to mock him, exploit his death, or score points against people who loved him. I post it because eternity is real, doctrine matters, and moments like this remind me why I refuse to treat religious error as a harmless difference of opinion.
The Bible warned plainly about “another Jesus” and “another gospel” (2 Corinthians 11:4; Galatians 1:8–9). Mormonism does not merely use different terminology for historic Christianity. It presents a fundamentally different theology of God, Christ, revelation, and salvation. When a religious system teaches doctrines about God and Christ that cannot be reconciled with the written word of God, compassion does not require me to call the contradiction harmless. The most dangerous lie is often the one wearing the vocabulary of truth.
Watching a man near the end of his life speak about Nephi, the Book of Mormon, and the spiritual journey he believed had brought him there does not make me want to soften my opposition to Mormonism. It makes me more determined. A man can be sincere, intelligent, kind, courageous, and completely persuaded, and still be persuaded of something false. Sincerity cannot turn another gospel into the gospel of Christ. Eternity is far too serious for Christians to smile politely while souls are taught to place confidence in revelations God never gave.
So yes, I will continue exposing Mormon doctrine. Not because I hate Mormons, but because I care about them too much to tell them the differences do not matter. Jesus Christ is not merely one character inside somebody else’s religious system. Salvation is not found by climbing a spiritual ladder, following another testament, or trusting another revelation. “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved” (Acts 16:31). May God comfort this man’s grieving family, and may his passing remind every one of us that when eternity is involved, telling the truth is not cruelty. Silence can be.
People once said you can’t separate Church from State. It happened.
Now we need the next reform: separation of Money and State.
Every time governments control the currency, the people get debased.
Sound money protects agency. Fiat protects power.
Hinduism teaches reincarnation, polytheism & absorption into an impersonal Brahman.
LDS teaches resurrection, monotheism through divine unity & eternal relationship with a personal God.
Context!
The family told their bishop they wanted the blessings of tithing despite their struggles.
After reading scripture together, they still chose to pay, the bishop’s words came in response to their faith, not pressure.
He reassured them God wouldn’t abandon them & He didn’t
@NewsMormon Faith isn’t the opposite of science, they’re tools for different truths.
Science studies what God created; it doesn’t replace Him.
Even science runs on unseen trust, logic, order & reason.
Five goalpost shifts now, keep it up, your doing just fine for not rebutting first one.
Jack in the box has jumped from indoctrination to faith to proof, three goalpost shifts in one thread. Smh
Burden of proof cuts both ways.
You can’t prove life ends at death any more than I can prove it continues.
Faith isn’t lab science, it’s meaning, purpose, and conscience.
@GimmeTheLu These are just baseless assertions you can’t possibly prove.
There’s nothing eternal about what happens inside a temple. The burden of proof is on you—and you can’t meet it.
Until then, brainwashing kids with blood oath inspired temple rituals is immoral.
@NewsMormon Faith isn’t anti-science, it fills the gap where data ends and purpose begins.
Science answers how, faith answers why.
Proof won’t change a heart that’s chosen disbelief.
@NewsMormon We’ve gone from indoctrination, faith, proof & now God doesn’t exist.
Demanding physical proof of the metaphysical is like using a telescope to weigh justice.
Russell’s teapot cuts both ways, you can’t prove God, but you can’t prove meaning, morality, or consciousness either.
@NewsMormon You’ve gone fully ad hominem, switched from ideas to insults.
Russell’s teapot shows you can’t disprove something just by mocking it.
Logic cuts both ways. Demand evidence for faith but offer none for meaning.
All your attemps debunked. Same pattern, no rebuttal, just deflection.
@NewsMormon Science explains the how.
Faith explains the why.
Even science runs on belief: trusting in data, integrity & process. That’s faith in method, not delusion.
Temples use symbolism, not secrecy. Mocking what you don’t understand only shows the limits of your lens.
@NewsMormon You’ve now gone from indoctrination to science > faith, that’s a new argument.
Science & faith answer different questions: how vs why.
Both require trust in unseen data. Your masonic blood oath line isn’t science, it’s speculation dressed as fact.
You’ve now shifted from indoctrination to attacking faith itself. If faith’s unreliable, tell that to every scientist, reformer & freedom fighter who acted on conviction before proof.
Temples aren’t abuse they’re covenants.
Agency, not coercion, defines worship.
@GimmeTheLu First, faith is an unreliable path to truth. Second, the OP argues that using emotional manipulation to indoctrinate toddlers to believe they must memorize secret handshakes and passwords to enter heaven isn’t just baseless, it’s spiritual abuse disguised as “faith.”
@NewsMormon You’ve now shifted from indoctrination to attacking faith itself. If faith’s unreliable, tell that to every scientist, reformer & freedom fighter who acted on conviction before proof.
Temples aren’t abuse they’re covenants.
Agency, not coercion, defines worship.
@NewsMormon You’re mixing partial truths with emotional framing.
The magazine was official, but the message wasn't.
Smith’s letter was private but authoritative. (Recorded)
Oaks taught alignment, not mindless obedience
Agency, revelation, and accountability, not conditioning or control.