50 Reasons Why
I’m OUT (of Mormonism)
- LDS meetings are boring.
- Brigham Young owned slaves.
- The City Creek Shopping Mall.
- The 1890 Manifesto was a lie.
- Where are all the steel swords?
- There was never a “Global Flood”.
- Joseph Smith was a sexual predator
- God’s word for the sun is “shinehah”.
- There is NO Book of Mormon Archeology
- The Primary manual has ghost stories.
- Lack of sex education ruins marriages.
- In 500 BC, American Indians knew French.
- Missionary medical treatment is abusive.
- Changing meeting times is not a revelation
- People who leave the church are shunned.
- Smith was sealed to 22 women before Emma.
- Utah cancer survival rates are about average.
- “Ministry” is a joke that everyone ignores.
- 148 years of super-racism. 40 years of less.
- Thomas S. Monson lied about his “85 widows”.
- Gay men were counseled to marry women.
- Forcible rape is a lesser sin than gay marriage.
- Nephi beheaded a man because he had a feeling.
- The Church is run by an unchecked 93-year-old.
- The Book of Abraham is a translation of nothing.
- The papyrus written by Abraham was lost.
- A man raped women in the MTC and nobody cares.
- Bearing testimony is a brainwashing technique.
- Allowing girls to pass out towels is not progress.
- Joseph Smith plagiarized his Bible “Translation”.
- Almost every “ faith promoting “ story is a myth.
- Polygamy had few rules, and those weren’t followed.
- Every song in the hymn book is like a funeral dirge.
- Masonic handshakes are just like Mormon temple ones.
- Today’s Endowment is nothing like it was 40 years ago.
- Mormons believe that the Tower of Babel story is real.
- It’s doctrine that God ignored humanity for 1500 years.
- It takes a lawyer to undo something I did when I was 8.
- Mormons build $50 million temples while ignoring poverty.
- Joseph Smith forced Heber C. Kimball to give him his wife.
- The last time an angel came to Earth was to talk about sex.
- Girls are taught that if they survive rape they’re tainted.
- Mormons killed 120 Arkansas migrants and stole their babies.
- 78-year-old John Taylor slept with his 26-year-old secretary.
- Brigham Young had a “favorite wife” who was 37 years younger.
- Joseph didn’t use the Gold Plates to write the Book of Mormon.
- Mormon bishops are alone with 7-year-old children all the time.
- Parents can't attend their kid's weddings over money and coffee.
- Except for tobacco use, the Word of Wisdom is incorrect or ignored.
- Smith didn’t tell anyone about the first vision for more than 10 years.