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This letter is sent to you as a voice of warning, to inform you that God will not permit you or your household to continues spreading wholesale destruction to the inhabitants of our society, through your militant aggression, by being in the same situation as Korihor placed himself in. Your fate will be just as dreadful.
[Note: Korihor was a Book of Mormon character who was so evil that he was “struck dumb” and was eventually “trodden down” by the Zoramites until “he was dead.”]
In the sight of God, your sins are worse than Benito Mussolini or Adolf Hitler, and your discipline will be much more severe, for you will be turned over to the buffeting of Satan both here and in the hereafter, where you will receive drastic punishment to where you will feel it’s greater than you can stand.
Hitler or Mussolini did not interfere with a persons endeavor to learn the genuine truth about the Gospel of Jesus Christ as you do. Their punishment will be much lighter than yours. . . . I am now a personal witness of your causing innocent living beings of being deceived.
At this time, I being authorized by God, spiritually wash my hands and stamp the dust off my feet as a living testimony against you, because of your illiterate way of diverting souls from the truth. . . . you are turned over to the buffeting of Satan to suffer, in his power, and to receive your just due as God deems suitable for your situation. . . .
These things I now say and declare to you and your household by the authorization of God’s Holy Priesthood, and in the Holy Name of Jesus, Amen.”
(Letter from Utah, unsigned, but probably written by a Mormon Fundamentalist— i.e., a polygamist)
Rejoice! With your help & God’s power, another person is out of the LDS Church & he is raring to go to win other Mormons to Christ. As he told me, every time there was a dilemma, I was able to provide answers & that was only due to the literature you provided to me. You are truly a God send!
(Letter from Washington)
We appreciate your ministry tremendously. You helped us & our two sons & families leave the Mormon Church. We were fifth generation members . . .
(Letter from California)
You are in my prayers daily and I want to thank you for all the help your books etc have been for me. My 4 teenage boys have also left the church and my husband has stopped attending.”
(Letter from Texas)
Thank you more than I can express for your unswerving diligence in your ministry. Your book “Major Problems of Mormonism” was a real eye opener (mind opener) for me. I’ll be blunt—the mormon church would have all mormons believe that you are evil people sent from hell . . . an a[c]quaintance of mine lent me the aforementioned book . . . Its not an easy book for a mormon to read. I believe most of the claims you make in your book and no longer intend to be a mormon. . . . I know that there is life beyond mormonism.
(Letter from Canada)
I am a former mormon who was saved from darkness because people like you care enough to print the truth.
(Letter from Washington D.C.)
Thank you so much for your book Mormonism—Shadow or Reality? (And at such a good price!) That has got to be the best book of its kind on the market.
(Letter from California)
It was your materials that enabled me to reject Joseph Smith as prophet and to leave Mormonism. The Brand I was a member of was the R.L.D.S. . . . I have since become a Christian . . .
(Letter from Missouri)
. . . I am profoundly moved by your work. I . . . listen to your tapes over & over for it brings joy to my heart to know the truth. My wife & I sent three boys on missions . . .
(Letter from Indiana)
I feel you people are a wonderful “support group.” I have become very solid in my unshakable commitment to follow Christ . . .
(Letter from Utah)
My wife, _____, has spent the last two years removing herself from the Mormon church and she has found your work very helpful during her studies. We both particularly like the balanced approach you bring to your research, as opposed to the vindictive style of some of the church’s critics.
(Letter from Australia)
Please pray for our outreach to the Mormon people and for other ministries and individuals who are laboring to bring Mormons to the Lord.

Originally appeared in:
Jerald and Sandra Tanner, “In the Mail,” Salt Lake City Messenger, no. 87, November 1994, 14-15.

