A record of a journey out of LDS Mormon belief
shawn
November 9, 2017
The Journey Out
(Randomly shared in our local Australian Mormon Stories support group on 09-11-2017) Here are some thoughts about the term “atheist” — being thrown out into the ether. Please feel free to engage / comment. It goes without saying, everything below…
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shawn
October 5, 2017
The Journey Out
Either I awaken; And I realise that … My story is just one of many stories… My experience is just one of many experiences… My God is just one of many Gods… My religion is just one of many religions……
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shawn
May 25, 2017
Ex-Mo Stuff
In the first article in this series I shared my story about confession to so-called “priesthood leaders” and other topics. Today, let’s turn to speaking about sexual values directly. The need for a moral framework It’s impossible to properly reason…
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shawn
May 22, 2017
Ex-Mo Stuff
Most of this blog has been quite focused on what “the truth” is, and the nature of religious experiences. However, after a recent gathering of secular “ex-Mormons” that I attended in Canberra, and several other discussions with various people over…
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shawn
May 9, 2017
Content Exchanges
A friend of mine asked me to review the video MORMON EVIDENCE (Part 1 – Full-Length) — The Authority of God’s Word by Jake Hilton. It’s a solid 4 hour video — so it took a few days to review the…
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shawn
May 3, 2017
Content Exchanges
Continuing my content exchange with a Mormon friend, I now give a review to the video found here (100 Reasons Why Evolution Is STUPID! – Kent Hovind) High level summary of my response This video was tedious and painful to watch.…
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shawn
May 2, 2017
Content Exchanges
The next piece of the content exchange that I agreed to do with my friend was Alma 30, from the Book of Mormon. My memory of the exact content of each chapter is a bit rusty, but I suspected this…
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shawn
May 1, 2017
Content Exchanges
So recently another friend and I arranged a “content exchange” — we both give each other something to read and after reading it I provide some commentary about what I read. In this case my friend gave me three distinct…
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shawn
April 26, 2017
The Journey Out
The Grand Airport Allegory Imagine that you were born in, and grew up in, the international arrivals terminal of the Sydney airport. All of your life, you were abundantly exposed to the stories of people arriving from all over the…
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shawn
April 22, 2017
Content Exchanges
So, I’ve been on Easter holiday with my family and had some time. I posted on Facebook looking for book recommendations and one of my good friends who is a Muslim recommended me to read Hamza Andreas Tzortzis’s The Divine Reality: God,…
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