Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director

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A FAIR Analysis of: Letter to a CES Director

High Level Summary
Title	Letter to a CES Director
Type	Online document
Author(s)
Affiliation	According to the author, he is "a disaffected member who lost his testimony."
Accuracy	The letter presents a host of troubling issues in the form of questions. The author states that "I’m hoping you’re going to have better answers than many of the ones given by unofficial apologists such as FAIR and Neal Maxwell Institute (formerly FARMS)."
Temple content

Overview

The "Letter to a CES Director" is hosted on critical websites such as MormonThink.com and FutureMissionary.com.

The PDF version of the letter may be downloaded here: http://cesletter.com/

A FAIR Analysis of the critical online document "Letter to a CES Director"

Response to section "Temples & Freemasonry Concerns & Questions"

Summary: The author of the letter asks, "Does the eternal salvation, eternal happiness, and eternal sealings of families really depend on medieval originated Masonic rituals in multi-million dollar castles? Is God really going to separate good couples and their children who love one other and who want to be together in the next life because they object to uncomfortable and strange Masonic temple rituals and a polygamous heaven?" We respond to these questions in this article.

Response to section "Scriptures Concerns & Questions"

Summary: The author states that "To believe in the scriptures, I have to believe in a god who endorsed murder, genocide, infanticide, rape, slavery, selling daughters into sex slavery, polygamy, child abuse, stoning disobedient children, pillage, plunder, sexism, racism, human sacrifice, animal sacrifice, killing people who work on the Sabbath, death penalty for those who mix cotton with polyester, and so on."

Response to section "Other Concerns & Questions"

Summary: The author concludes that "The problem Mormonism encounters is that so many of its claims are well within the realm of scientific study, and as such, can be proven or disproven. To cling to faith in these areas, where the overwhelming evidence is against it, is willful ignorance, not spiritual dedication."