Discussion of holes in Mormon establishment

Originally Posted by Little Bo Pepys

I admire your dedication, but you are drinking some serious Mormon Kool-Aid. I am intimately familiar with the Mormon history and religion. I have investigated it thoroughly and experienced it directly for decades. (Among other things, I spent 15 years in the district attorney's office in the heart of Mormon country, and it wasn't pretty.) It is a historical fraud and theologically bears no resemblance to first-century Christianity. A minor example: the Mormon "history of the Americas" is utterly without foundation in archaeology, genetics or any other science. One of the great puzzles of my life has been watching seemingly sane and intelligent people who appear to be in touch with reality in every other area of their lives somehow compartmentalize their religious beliefs and cling to Mormonism. (Granted, some friends say this about my mainstream Christianity as well.) They strike me very much like Young Earth Christians or Scientologists - I find it impossible to believe that they sincerely believe what they purport to believe and can only conclude that the explanation is to be found in psychological factors - or perhaps, in the case of Mormons and Scientologists, in supernatural forces that are not Godly, to put it mildly. This isn't a thread to debate Mormonism, and frankly any such debate goes nowhere because Mormons do bear a very close resemblance to Scientologists in the extent to which they have been indoctrinated. My point is simply, don't think you're going to get away with a statement like the one above; that may play to an audience of religious dolts who know even less about Mormonism than they do about Christianity, but some of us do know whereof we speak.