Criticism of Mormonism/Websites
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Analysis of websites critical of Mormonism
Dissident LDS groups
- Mormons for Marriage—
Mormons for Marriage opposes the Church's opposition to same-sex marriage. The website frequently features attacks on leaders and members of the Church, and misrepresentation of Church doctrine. (Link)
- Mormon Stories—
Mormon Stories is directed by John Dehlin, a member of the Church who rejects the Church's truth claims. (Link)
Criticisms from groups falsely claiming to be active or believing Church members
- FutureMissionary.com—
The web site FutureMissionary.com claims to be operated by three returned missionaries who are simply interested in educating prospective missionaries on what they may encounter on their mission. The website seeks to introduce the potential future missionary to a large number of troubling issues, with minimal context. The site owners, who remain anonymous, also imply that they are apologists and infer an alignment with FAIR by stating, "Many members are are made uncomfortable by talking about church history so they think that our site, FAIR, and any other apologists are anti. We’re pro church and pro truth." FutureMissionary.com is not in any way associated with FAIR. (Link) - MormonThink.com—
The web site MormonThink.com claims to be operated by active members of the Church with an interest in objectively presenting the "truth" about Mormonism. In reality, only the webmaster retains his membership in order to retain credibility in his efforts to subtly influence other members to investigate his claims. The remaining website contributors are ex-Mormons who frequently post on anti-Mormon message boards. The webmaster is, by his own admission, pretending to be semi-active in order to destroy members' and missionaries' testimonies from within the social structure of the Church. The site pretends to be "balanced" by presenting information and links to apologetic sites, however, the conclusions reached by the site consistently reflect negatively on the Church's truth claims. The site also used to contain a large amount of Temple content. (Link)
Secularist groups
- Exmormon Foundation
- Richard Packham's media questions for Mitt Romney—Richard Packham believes that the media is not asking the proper questions about U.S. Presidential Candidate. He has produced a list of questions he believes ought to be asked. Each contains subtle or not-so-subtle distortions about LDS belief or practice. (Link)
Countercult ministries
- Contender Ministries—
In the fashion typical of countercult ministries, FAIR is accused of deception. Contender Ministries' website notes that FAIR "is waging a somewhat successful campaign of disinformation. Many Mormons, on the verge of admitting that Joseph Smith was a false prophet, are thrown into confusion by the FAIR apologists. However, [Contender Ministries has] found the articles on FAIR's website to be quite deceptive inasmuch as they quote Scripture, LDS leaders, and Christian apologists out of context, and hide as much information as they provide." (Link) - Institute for Religious Research—
According to the IRR website, "The LDS Church teaches a number of things that conflict with the Bible and are radically different from the beliefs of Christians down through the centuries. If Mormonism denies the core teachings of biblical Christianity, should it still be considered an authentic expression of true Christianity?" (Link) - Macgregor Ministries—
The website claims that all articles on Mormonism contained therein are "all written from a Christian perspective and explain the differences between Mormonism and orthodox Christianity." (Link) - Tower to Truth Ministries—
From the article "Mormonism Uncovered," we learn that "the LDS Church has stealthily campaigned to portray itself as just another Christian church preaching the same gospel and principles as do contemporary evangelical denominations." (Link) - Watchman Fellowship—
According to their website, "Watchman Fellowship is an independent, nondenominational Christian research and apologetics ministry focusing on new religious movements, cults, the occult and the New Age." (Link) - Utah Lighthouse Ministry—
According to their website, "The purpose of [Utah Lighthouse Ministry] is to document problems with the claims of Mormonism and compare LDS doctrines with Christianity." (Link)- Contradictions in LDS Scripture—Many conservative Protestant critics have reproduced a table which purports to show how LDS scripture contradicts itself. FAIR examines the supposed contradictions, presents the scriptures cited in context, and demonstrates that claims of contradiction rest on: 1) a misinterpretation of LDS scripture and 2)comparing two verses which are speaking about different things reading Protestant meanings into scriptural terminology (Link)
- Sandra Tanner: Bible and Book of Mormon Contradictions—Sandra Tanner provides a feeble and long-answered short list of supposed "contradictions" between the Bible and the Book of Mormon (Link)
