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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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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Over the past few weeks I’ve had increasingly more discussions with religious friends from various religions, including Islam, Christianity and (of course) Mormonism. I’ve even started a new tradition formed around the idea of “content exchange” (“I give you some…
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So, continuing on the previous series of content exchanges with my Mormon friend (here, here and here) , I now review the final piece of content that we exchanged from my end. This time my friend asked me to review…
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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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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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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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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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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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“可恨之人必有可怜之处” — Chinese proverb; “Those that could be hated must have parts that could be pitied” (Note: this article is written primarily for an ex-Mormon audience. I’d recommend believing LDS members not read this, though they probably don’t read anything…
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