by Dan Wees | May 30, 2018 | Miscellaneous
Trigger reasons for apostasy from ‘Zelph on the Shelf’… “I lived in California during prop[osition] 8. And every week instead of a lesson in EQ [Elder’s Quorum] for weeks and weeks they would have someone from the stake come in and rabble rouse the...
by Dan Wees | May 30, 2018 | Miscellaneous
Trigger reasons for apostasy from ‘Zelph on the Shelf’… “Sad to say it wasn’t until I became a HP [High Priest] group leader at the age of 37. I think was just really conditioned as a young man to believe in all of the weird Mormon stuff by a loving...
by Dan Wees | May 30, 2018 | Miscellaneous
Trigger reasons for apostasy from ‘Zelph on the Shelf’… “Wondering why Thomas S. Monson and other recent church presidents never...
by Dan Wees | May 30, 2018 | Miscellaneous
Trigger reasons for apostasy from ‘Zelph on the Shelf’… “When the church was pushing Proposition 8. No prophet could be that reactionary and...
by Dan Wees | May 30, 2018 | Miscellaneous
Trigger reasons for apostasy from ‘Zelph on the Shelf’… “Just reading the Book of Mormon. Sometimes I had spiritual experiences with it, especially on my mission. But 90% of my time I couldn’t get past how ridiculous most of it sounded or...
by Dan Wees | May 30, 2018 | Miscellaneous
Trigger reasons for apostasy from ‘Zelph on the Shelf’… “It was a T.I.L. [Today I Learned] post on Reddit about the differing first vision accounts. I looked at the linked Joseph Smith Papers account. Although it didn’t kill my testimony, it showed...