Excerpts from Letters and Emails (2005)

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May 2005
Thank You for your web site, it has been of great help. I have been a member of the LDS church for a few years and now I want to leave.

May 2005
YOUR JUST A TYPICAL RUN OF THE MILL ANTI-MORMON GROUP. IF YOU BELIEVE SO MUCH IN HONESTY, WHY DON’T YOU JUST PUT “ANTI-MORMON GROUP” AS YOUR HEADING. AT LEAST THIS WAY PEOPLE CAN KNOW WHAT YOUR REALLY ALL ABOUT.

June 2005
I joined the LDS church with my family when I was 5 years old. In my 23 years, I have not been able to come to a valid conclusion on WHY people find it necessary to insult and defame the LDS church. What you don’t understand is that “MORMONS” are just as Christian as you are? We follow and believe and love Jesus Christ with all of our hearts.

June 2005
I have just begun a journey to seek the truth behind Mormonism.
. . . I am trying to build up the courage to show my wife the things that I have discovered and I am hoping to find enough solid material to at least plant the seed of doubt . . . that which will allow her to question things herself.

June 2005
God is doing a wonderful thing through lighthouse ministries.
. . . When it comes to dealing with LDS I do not use any other source. Your ministry played a part in my leaving the LDS church back in 1989. I beleave you probably have no Idea how many have come to know Jesus after contacting lighthouse ministries 🙂

October 2005
Clearly, you have never read the Book of Mormon. It is sad to me that in your ignorance, which is your fault, you are teaching the world false things about the Mormon beliefs.

The Mormons do not view themselves as better than the rest of the world, but yes, our church is the only true church.

“We talk about Christianity, but it is a perfect pack of nonsense. . . . it is as corrupt as hell; and the Devil could not invent a better engine to spread his work than the Christianity of the nineteenth century.”

John Taylor, (third president of the LDS church), preaching in
Journal of Discourses, vol. 6, p. 167

June 2005
Yesterday I received one of my favorite pieces of mail—the Salt Lake City Messenger! You deserve a great deal of credit for your unfailing devotion to spreading the truth, and right in Salt Lake City, the nerve center of what has become an enormously wealthy and powerful international organization.

[I was a] BYU student of Mormon history . . . The modern LDS establishment holds little in common with the church begun by Joseph Smith, and no doubt he would be promptly excommunicated today. How shockingly little Mormons know about their own religion and its history! . . .

Look at the bright side, at least the Mormons appear to have given up the practice of using blood atonement against their enemies!

June 2005
Your book, “The Changing World of Mormonism” was like a very strong cup of coffee, hard to swallow at first, but it opened my eyes wide. I was born and raised in the mormon church, my family are mormon pioneers on both sides.

June 2005
I too, amongst many, have come from a Mormon background and have received Jesus Christ as my personal savior. I commend you for your faithfulness in your endeavors and I praise God that He has given and provided you with fortitude and strength to deliver these people out of darkness and into the light. Truth does withstand scrutiny.

July 2005
I am an ex-Mormon, who left over three years ago. My husband, children and I had our records removed last year. The freedom I have felt is indescribable. After reading your testimonies, I know you both feel that freedom, too. We just couldn’t stay that far away from God anymore. We needed the true Jesus of the Bible in our lives.

July 2005
I am curious to know if it is just my faith that you pull to pieces, or whether you evenly destroy all faiths? . . . You should be ashamed of yourselves, if this is what you do to a christian faith. . . . Where does your priesthood ordinances stem from? . . . When did you pray to God to ask him about each faith you studied? Did you ask him about Joseph Smith and his testimony? No.

July 2005
WHY DON’T YOU ALL GO OUT AND GET A “REAL JOB” INSTEAD OF RUNNING DOWN SOMEONES RELIGION. I MEAN THERE MUST BE SOMETHING CONSTRUCTIVE YOU CAN DO.

August 2005
Okay, I’m a total wimp. I know in my heart that the LDS Church is not true, and that Jesus is the “fullness of the gospel.” It feels so wonderful to be free from bondage! And drink coffee again. . . . I am also admittedly not yet ready to take that final step of having my name removed from the records.

September 2005
Hello guys. . . . thank you, thank you and thank you for the awesome work that you guys have done over the years. You guys helped me greatly in the process of dispersing the dark cloud of Mormonism from my life.