The 4th Article of Faith in the Mormon church begins, "We believe that the first principles and ordinances of the Gospel are: first, Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ..." In this episode, we talk about some of the problems and contradictions inherent in the church's teachings about faith, and how faith is ultimately used as a tool to gaslight members and terminate critical thinking.
From its inception, the Mormon church has claimed the "fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ" was restored (past tense) through the prophet Joseph...
What originally started as a "yet another ploy" for Joseph Smith to make money unwittingly turned into a full-blown religion. To put it all...
Members of the church face "two churches" in their LDS experience -- the church presented to them as they first learn about it, and...