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 | Tuesday, Jul 5, 2005, at 06:35 AM New Ex-Mormon Book Out Posted By Diana Kline BOOKS - AUTHORS AND DESCRIPTIONS -Guid- | ↑ |
| Hello Everyone,
Like most of you, I am a former Mormon who left the church in my early 20's after becoming very disillusioned by its teachings and practices. I have recently written a book about my growing up in and eventual departure from the Mormon church. The name of my book is called "Woman Redeemed." This memoir also deals with abuse (sexual, physical, emotional) and the leaders' lack of response, a serious eating disorder that I overcame, suicide attempts, severe depression (incredibly common in the Mormon church as you know) and even "taboo" subjects like masturbation; a "sin" that the Mormon church practically links with murder. In addition to these themes, I also discuss how I have used my gift of music to help me throughout the process of healing. If you are interested in reviewing and/or purchasing my book, you can go to: www.womanredeemed.com, or call 1-888-280-7715. My book is also on the Amazon and Barnes and Noble websites. Thank you for your time! I am so glad that I am not alone in this process of recovery from Mormonism. There are SO MANY others just like us out there! If you know of other Ex-Mo's, would you mind forwarding this message on to them? Many thanks!! Diana Kline, M.S.,C.R.C. Providence, UT Author of "Woman Redeemed" |
| | Tuesday, Jul 19, 2005, at 07:22 AM Spirited Yearling Wounded Posted By Anonymous BOOKS - AUTHORS AND DESCRIPTIONS -Guid- | ↑ |
| Spirited Yearling Wounded by Loren Jenner
ISBN: 1-4116-3723-2, 4th ed., 234 pages, Angel Warrior Publishing, © 2005 by Loren Jenner For more information, go to http://www.lorenjenner.com "I had already talked to my counselor at BYU, Sister Jenson, about Kate because sometimes I had visions of kissing her on the lips. They would just sort of flash in my mind and leave me feeling dirty and disgusting. I didn't tell anyone about it except Sister Jenson, not even my friends in the support group on campus. All she said was that it was ok to have the thoughts but not ok to act on them." p. 37 "I'm worried that the reason I feel these sexual feelings toward other women is because of [being sexually abused by a man when a teenager]. What if I will never be able to have normal sexual feelings toward a man? I feel so ashamed. I hope that one day I will be able to have normal sex with a man and not feel sexual feelings toward a woman ever again." p. 165 "...[Beth] planted one right on my lips ... Time slowed to a standstill and fireworks exploded on the canvass of my mind; all those things happened that people talked about when it came to kissing boys, but I had never felt until this moment with a woman ... When once I feared this moment would kill me, it filled me. I didn't feel dirty at all but beautiful all over." p. 189 "... I cried. I didn't know why I grieved. I didn't anticipate giving up the gospel, for I intended to live its principles. I suspected I grieved the support of the church as a whole, knowing that I would be judged and ostracized. This realization devastated me because I had relied solely on the church for a sense of identity and self-esteem ever since I was sixteen years old. Now I stood on my own." p. 193 "...What is a bigger sin? ... What if God would hold me more accountable for denying myself rather than acknowledging myself? ... I have been living my life according to the teachings of the church and condemning those who don't -- like homosexuals -- and now here I stand, prostrate, ready to be crucified as I have crucified them." p. 181 "If following the advice of the prophets by marrying a man or staying celibate was truly good for me, then I would feel light and love come into my life even though the lifestyle might be difficult. Just the thought of doing either one of those things breeds darkness and shame inside me whereas the idea of opening myself up to the possibility of being with a woman brings me internal peace." p. 221-222 "A budding peace filled my spirit as I looked to my future, reassured. I finally understood what people meant when they said that one could find heaven on earth; my contentment, in that moment, was everything I had imagined the Celestial Kingdom to be." p. 225 |
| | Friday, Sep 23, 2005, at 07:13 AM The Rise of Mormonism: 1816-1844 Posted By Anonymous BOOKS - AUTHORS AND DESCRIPTIONS -Guid- | ↑ |
| Michael Marquardt just emailed me and said that the book he's been writing about Mormonism is finally out and ready for purchase. I haven't read it yet, but I'm sure it's a great book. Based on my relatively frequent conversations with him (as well as the books of his I've read), I can say with confidence that his knowledge of Mormonism is among the best of any scholars on Mormonism I know of. I'm really looking forward to reading The Rise of Mormonism: 1816-1844.
I think this may be the perfect book with which to celebrate JS's birth this year -- a complete and factual history on the organization he started! I wouldn't consider Michael an anti-Mormon, but I will say that apologists like Daniel Peterson don't like him, because he tells the history like it is, and doesn't whitewash it. It's probably safe to say that the folks over at FAIR would brand him as an anti-Mormon, though. Here's the blurb on the book from the publisher: The Rise of Mormonism: 1816-1844 By H. Michael Marquardthttp://www.aimoo.com/forum/postview.c... |
| | Friday, Dec 30, 2005, at 07:29 AM Faith And Betrayal: A Pioneer Woman's Passage In The American West Posted By Anonymous BOOKS - AUTHORS AND DESCRIPTIONS -Guid- | ↑ |
| "The richly told story of a nineteenth-century woman—the author's great-great-grandmother—whose religious faith was betrayed and regained on a journey across the American West.
"In the 1850s, Jean Rio was a recently widowed English mother of seven. Rich, well educated, musically gifted, deeply spiritual, and increasingly dismayed by the social injustices she saw around her, she was moved by the promises of Mormon missionaries and set out from England for Utah. On her fifty-six-day Atlantic crossing, she began keeping a diary, and this extraordinary chronicle is the basis of Sally Denton's book. "We follow Jean Rio from New Orleans, where she disembarks, up the Mississippi by riverboat, and, finally, westward by wagon train. We see her family transformed by necessity—mastering frontier skills, surviving storms, finding their own food, overcoming illness and injury—during the five months it takes them to reach Zion. "We see her initial enthusiasm turn to disillusionment: She is forced to surrender her money to the church. She realizes she has been lied to about polygamy—Mormons do practice it—which she detests. Acts of Mormon violence against nonbelievers repel her. Her musical skills are buried beneath the daily rigors of farming. Two of her sons flee to California. We witness her seventeen-year struggle to make peace with her situation before she, too, escapes to California—to freedom, a career as a midwife, and a new religion that fulfills her. "Dramatic and powerful, Faith and Betrayal is the moving account of one woman's gamble in an emerging America, and a valuable addition to the history of both the Mormon experience and the long saga of immigrant pioneer women." (From inside jacket.) http://www.utlm.org/booklist/titles/f... |
| | Wednesday, Mar 22, 2006, at 11:10 AM Portals of the Night Posted By Dennis C Farley BOOKS - AUTHORS AND DESCRIPTIONS -Guid- | ↑ |
A compelling psychological thriller, Portals of the Night tells the story of attorney Robert Farwell and an experimental project that portends an ominous future for all mankind while delivering the shocking truth about Mormonism. Book Description A suspenseful psychological thriller, Portals of the Night profiles the ominous battle between good and evil as a small-town attorney confronts the Biblical myths predicting the end of the world and his personal apocalypse. Robert Ashton Farwell becomes involved in an experimental project that propels him into the subconscious. Farwell ventures into the confusing, unfamiliar realm of inner-space, only to discover his life is in grave danger. Religious fanatics intent on killing Mormon defectors for violating secret temple ordinances force Farwell to become immersed again in the mysteries of the Mormon Church from which he had tried to escape. Former members are being executed. Farwell is next. He has thirty days to identify the assassins and prevent his own murder. Through these dark portals the shocking truth about Mormonism is revealed. Portals is an epic battle in the eternal struggle between the righteous and the wicked. It is a story of redemption and hope in a place where time has no meaning. The bridge spanning the gap between believers and nonbelievers is about to fall. The time to choose has arrived. Portals of the Night I wrote Portals of the Night primarily for my children who were too young to understand what the family was experiencing and the reasons why I left the Mormon Church after years of faithful service. I also wrote it for Mormons who are concerned that their church is not being entirely honest; for Ex-Mormons struggling to find their identities in a non-Mormon world; and for anyone interested in examining the world of religion from the perspective of someone caught in its tangled web. Portals is a myth—a parable—about modern religious fanaticism. It is an initiation, if you will, from a mystical, fantastic realm where anything is possible into the real world where only the possible is possible. Joseph Smith, the first Mormon prophet, is alleged to have said about himself shortly before his death, "No man knows my history." That is true of us all. Portals is a fictionalized account of my personal journey of discovery. It arises from an organizational belief system that threatens physical violence to anyone who elects to escape its sphere of influence. In the fantastic, subconscious world, Portals invites the honest seeker of truth to see his or her reflection in my experiences in the hope they will find a better world on the other side of the looking glass. Those who view it from a Mormon v. Non-Mormon perspective will fail to understand the symbolism of the underlying story of disillusionment and pain caused by associating with any organization that professes to be the sole oracle of truth. Portals asks the reader to suspend disbelief and enter a marvelous realm where all things are possible so that upon returning to the "real world" the impossible can be identified and rejected as impossible. Portals is entertainment, but much more than that for those entrenched in a fundamentalist, authoritarian organization. Suicide bombers are real people like us once we begin to consider what they believe and the reasons underlying those beliefs. Mormon fanatics, after all, are no different than deluded Muslim fundamentalists, or any other fanatic. Portals is written from a Mormon apostate perspective, although I provide the true believer's perspective that I once shared. Leaving a cult with the means and ability to enforce death threats as divine retribution is a difficult, fearful experience that no one can understand who has not had that experience. My hope is that Portals may prevent others from following the same hapless course I took into the darkest nightmare of religious fanaticism. Perhaps by holding up the light of truth, I may discourage others from ever raising a hand in violence against anyone because of a religious belief. |
| | Monday, Mar 5, 2007, at 07:10 AM Free E-Book, Sisterwife, Polygamy Revealed In Fiction Posted By Natalie R. Collins BOOKS - AUTHORS AND DESCRIPTIONS -Guid- | ↑ |
| I am offering a free copy of SISTERWIFE, my very first book, to anyone who cares to download it from my Web site. It's FREE FREE FREE. Hee hee. We all love free, right?
Fiction, ripped from the headlines: Prophesied to be the catalyst in a modern-day Armageddon, Kelsey Waite flees a life in Utah, freeing herself from a polygamous lifestyle and abusive father. She is forced to return to the state, and face her demons--and the charismatic cult leader who believes she is destined to be his second wife -- when her daughter is kidnapped. http://www.nataliercollins.com/sisterwife.php |
| | Tuesday, Mar 3, 2009, at 08:07 AM "The Mormon Delusion" - Volume 1 By Jim Whitefield Is Now Available Posted By Jimmy Rainbow BOOKS - AUTHORS AND DESCRIPTIONS -Guid- | ↑ |
| “The Mormon Delusion. Volume 1. The truth Behind Polygamy and Secret Polyandry” is now available worldwide, in five currencies; in Hardback; Paperback; or as a download, from Lulu.com and in a few weeks time books will also be available from Amazon or on order from UTLM or any good bookstore.
Jim’s Storefront can be accessed at: http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcc... Where the cover and several pages of the book can be viewed and book reviews can also be left. This work is a hard hitting, impassioned exposé of the truth behind Mormon polygamy and little known polyandry. This is not a one sided, sugar coated book of Mormon fiction such as the Church produces. It is pure unadulterated evidence of the truth which the Mormon Church hides from members so they won’t ask questions for which there are no theological answers. Further details of Jim and his work, plus previews of all the chapters in all three volumes of The Mormon Delusion are now available at: http://www.themormondelusion.com where there are also links to the storefront and other useful web sites. What other authors have had to say about Volume 1: Jim Whitefield’s “THE MORMON DELUSION. VOLUME 1 – The Truth Behind Polygamy and secret Polyandry” Is an excellent book for casual and serious readers. It presents new information about the secret And shocking aspects of early Mormon marriage. Arza Evans Author of THE KEYSTONE OF MORMONISM Mormonism’s founder, Joseph Smith, secretly married over thirty women; some already married to living men, and had sexual relations with many of these women without the knowledge of his single “public” wife Emma. Most Mormons know nothing about this as it is left out of the one-sided histories Mormons are spoon fed by their church. After 43 years as a dedicated Mormon, Jim Whitefield was astonished to learn the true history of plural marriage as practised by Mormonism’s earliest leaders. In a thoroughly researched and “tell it like it is” approach Whitefield details the murky origins of plural marriage and its tragic consequences in the lives of numerous Mormon women. Simon Southerton Author of Losing a Lost Tribe; Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church. "The Mormon Delusion. Volume 2: The Secret Truth Withheld from Thirteen Million Mormons" will be available in April or May of 2009. "The Mormon Delusion. Volume 3: Discarded Doctrines & Nonsense Revelations" should follow by June or July of 2009. |
| | Monday, Mar 30, 2009, at 08:08 AM Lyndon Lamborn's Book Out Today Posted By SpongeBob SquareGarments BOOKS - AUTHORS AND DESCRIPTIONS -Guid- | ↑ |
| Lyndon Lamborn, who was excommunicated last year for spreading the truth in his ward and putting his excommunication hearing on Youtube, has written a book on his experience.
"Standing for Something More." 'After a highly publicized and controversial exit from Mormonism, Lamborn intertwines the story of his awakening with psychological aspects of religious belief.' It just became available today. I just ordered my copy. Publisher: http://www.authorhouse.com/bookstore/... For more on Lyndon: http://www.mormonthink.com/lyndonlamb... |
| | Friday, Jul 17, 2009, at 07:41 AM The Mormon Delusion. Volume 3 Posted By Jim Whitefield BOOKS - AUTHORS AND DESCRIPTIONS -Guid- | ↑ |
| This is just a quick note to advise that The Mormon Delusion. Volume 3. Discarded Doctrines and Nonsense Revelations has now been published. This completes the trilogy and full details, summaries and links to my book store are available at http://www.themormondelusion.com.
Now available online, it will be available in a few weeks from Amazon., Barns & Noble, and all other major outlets. Anyone with a retail outlet can obtain copies for resale from the wholesaler 'Ingram.' Those with a web site are welcome to copy and paste any details they wish to from my web site. Thank you for the continued support and encouragement I have been given by so many people. Adam is God; Blood Atonement was real and Mormons have true Masonry The Mormon Delusion Volume 3 provides evidence that the Church hides and denies these and other aspects of its colourful history. This thread – confirming publication of “The Mormon Delusion. Volume 3. Discarded Doctrines and Nonsense Revelations” – is posted with kind permission and approval of Eric and the admin staff of RfM. My grateful thanks for their continued encouragement and support. Brigham Young taught that Joseph Smith revealed Adam was God. Berating Orson Pratt, who couldn’t come to terms with the doctrine, Young said: “Your statements to night, you come out to night & place them as charges, & have as many against me as I have [against] you. One thing I have thought that I might still have omitted. It was Joseph’s doctrine that Adam was God &c When in Luke Johnson’s at O Hydes the power came upon us, or shock that alarmed the neighbourhood. God comes to earth & eats & partakes of fruit. Joseph could not reveal what was revealed to him, & if Joseph had it revealed, he was told not to reveal it…” Minutes of meeting at Historian’s Office. Great Salt Lake City. 7 p.m. 4 Apr 1860. Cited in Item # 87 in Adam-God at www.ldshistory.net/adam-god/ag2.html Blood atonement commenced with Joseph Smith and was still in evidence even after the turn of the twentieth century. “5 Apr 1902. ‘Clyde Felt has confessed to cutting the throat of old man Collins, at his request. The old man was a moral degenerate. The boy is a son of David P. Felt.’ Grandson of former general authority, Clyde Felt is fourteen. Despite this blood atonement murder, LDS leaders allow young man to be endowed and married in temple eight years later.” Quinn 1997: 804-5. The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power. Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books. Brigham Young developed and completed the endowment that Joseph Smith outlined using late 1700s Masonic ritual as a basis for the ceremony. “The Masonry of today is received from the apostasy which took place in the days of Solomon and David. They have now and then a thing which is correct, but we have the real thing.” Heber C. Kimball. Manuscript History of Brigham Young. 13 Nov 1858:1085. LDS Archives, c. in Beurger 2002: Ch 3 & n57. The Mysteries of Godliness: A History of Mormon Temple Worship. Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books. “A Masonic Lodge …was established in Nauvoo and Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, Willard Richards, John Taylor, Lorenzo Snow, Orson Hyde, F. D. Richards, and about 1000 others all became Masons. Joseph, the Prophet, was aware that there were some things about Masonry that had come down from the beginning and he desired to know what they were, hence the lodge. The Masons admitted some keys of knowledge appertaining to Masonry were lost. Joseph enquired of the Lord concerning the matter and He revealed to the Prophet true Masonry, as we have it in our temples.” Franklin D. Richards speaking to Quorum of Twelve Apostles. Beurger 2002. The Mysteries of Godliness: A History of Mormon Temple Worship. Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books. Ch. 3 & n 62 citing: Larson 1993:42. A Ministry of Meetings: The Apostolic Diaries of Rudger Clawson. Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, in association with Smith Research Associates. These and other aspects of Mormon Church lies concerning the past are explored and explained in ‘The Mormon Delusion. Volume 3’, now available from Lulu; as a download, in paperback and hardback. It will shortly to be available from Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other outlets worldwide. This book completes a trilogy which comprises a definitive work analytically exposing the facts behind Mormon Church fiction. Arza Evan – Author of The Keystone of Mormonism commented: Jim Whitefield’s third volume of The Mormon Delusion explores dark and disturbing aspects of the past which the Church today completely ignores. With his now familiar analytical skills and style, Whitefield exposes the truth behind Brigham Young’s ‘Adam-God’ and ‘Blood Atonement’ doctrines which were accepted for decades in the Mormon Church through several successive prophets; and yet later leaders denied they ever existed. Whitefield skillfully explores and explains step by step, word by word, sign by sign and grip by grip, how Masonic ritual was used to create the original Mormon endowment; proving that Joseph Smith used late eighteenth-century Masonic wording, symbolism, signs and tokens to formulate the Mormon ceremony. Conclusive evidence leaves the reader in no doubt that God could and would not have been involved in such nonsense. The Mormon Delusion Volume 3 is essential reading for those who want the facts about the past rather than the fiction the Mormon Church now teaches. Simon Southerton – Author of Losing a Lost Tribe; Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church adds: In the third volume of The Mormon Delusion, Jim Whitefield delves into the most controversial beliefs and events in Mormonism’s colourful past. With his familiar candour he sheds light on things Mormon leaders would prefer were long forgotten. For further details and a synopsis of this and other volumes of The Mormon Delusion and links to Jim’s Lulu Store Front, go to www.themormondelusion.com Writing has been my therapy. My work is finished. I hope to put the devastating past behind me and finally move on and away from the Mormon Church. The trouble is; as many here know; it isn’t that simple when most of your family remain faithful and condemn you for your actions. How do you ever deal with married children who will have nothing to do with you; their perception that you have effectively divorced your deceased temple married wife because you resigned from the Church; grandchildren you are not allowed to see; and the loneliness that follows leaving a lifetime of devotion to Mormonism? I resigned in 2003 simply because I could no longer hold to a belief in God, no matter how hard I tried. I accidentally discovered the truth about the Church in 2006 and finished my devastating journey of discovery in 2009. Now perhaps I can find peace – I just wish I had a clue how to do that. My one hope; other than perhaps that my active children may one day have the courage to study the truth; is that others who have read and who may yet read my work will, because of my research and writing, more fully comprehend the hoax and the continued conspiracy to deceive members of the Church. If it helps just one person to better understand the truth, it will all have been worthwhile. My best wishes to everyone. |
| | Thursday, Jul 22, 2010, at 09:41 AM Book Of Mormon, Its Own Worst Enemy Posted By Ray Martin BOOKS - AUTHORS AND DESCRIPTIONS -Guid- | ↑ |
| Although there seems to have always been controversy about where the Lamanites and Nephites lived, it now seems to be generally accepted that they inhabited Central America. In 1958, when I became a member of the church, I was taught that the ruins of that area were evidence of this “fact.” So, taking this area as starting point of the final conflict between these two enemies, their natural habitat was tropical.
In the BOM, Mormon’s narrative of the troop (and family) movement terminating at the Hill Cumorah covers the time period between about 380 AD and 384 AD inclusive, but occupies only four verses of text, Mormon 5:6-7 and 6:1, 5, none of which contain details of any events of several years along the way. This is odd seeing that the final conflict and so many of the battles in and around their homeland are covered in such minute detail. There is no mention of weather, which could have been the greatest enemy of both factions. There would have been at least three winters in North America, above the thirty third parallel of north latitude, where the temperature often falls below zero degrees Fahrenheit in the winter and above one hundred degrees in summer. The Lamanite warriors were said to have gone into battle naked (Alma 43:20, 44:18) which would have put them at a great disadvantage in the above instances, being worst in freezing weather. Then there were the families of the warriors (Mor. 6:7.) Where did theyobtain food, water, shelter and warm clothing? If nothing else; this is something to carefully consider. It seems to me that most people who are dissatisfied with the Church base their anger on Joseph Smith, polygamy, or some other unchangeable or unchallengeable, when it is the Book of Mormon itself that is its own worst enemy. I accidentally proved this to myself by charting the life spans of the record keepers and writing my book, Chronology of the Book of Mormon Records: an In-Depth Look. When I began the study, I fully expected to prove these record keepers were real and Joseph Smith a prophet. But when I put the lifespan information into the charts my confidence fell apart. Joseph Smith might have been able to pick up the thread of his narration after leaving it for awhile, but he was unable to keep his record keepers in mathematical balance with his story. I reasoned that if he was translating from “the plates” his story would have continuity of history, and it did not. I had been taught that Joseph had perused the gold plates, translating reformed Egyptian into English, but I was now looking at proof that this was not the case. The realization was numbing. I had received all of the Temple Ordinances. I was a High Priest, twice a member of a Stake High Council and now on assignment as a Stake Missionary. Could this be just a test of my fidelity? Was I being tested by Satan? I re-ran all of my calculations and points of reference, but found no serious defects. I then went to my Stake President and after relating my findings asked to be released from my calling. Needless to say, I was heart broken. My Temple marriage, to my beautiful wife, was a contract made on false authority, a sham. The sealing to my children was false also. I regretted the day that I first met the Missionaries and vowed to place into the hands of as many investigators of the church as I could a means of knowing, in advance of joining the church, what is really in the Book of Mormon. This is the reason for working on the project since 1979 and publication of my research and charts. I seriously doubt that any True Blue Mormon will ever read the book and/or study the charts. But if I have kept just one investigator from going through the dreadful experience I’ve gone through, it’s worth the time, money and effort I’ve put into it. Book, including small charts, ISBN: 978-1-4327-3307-0. Three, eighteen by twenty-four inch charts, Pre Christian Era, Christian Era and Composite available at my cost plus postage. |