Radio Free Mormon: 277: Disappointing Mormonism

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🗓️ 17 April 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Mormonism has the power to disappoint in many ways, even after I thought I had left it far behind. One of the most significant disappointments for me is being betrayed by church leaders I trusted implicitly, only to find they were not telling me the truth. What happens when you find out your ability to… Read More »Radio Free Mormon: 277: Disappointing Mormonism

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0:00.0	testing 123 testing 123 this is radio free Mormon on the air broadcasting behind enemy
0:27.6	lines tonight's episode disappointing Mormonism you know sometimes I wonder why it is that Mormonism
0:34.7	can be so disappointing to me but I think the obvious answer to that is because I loved it so much
0:41.6	and I trusted it so much and I believed it so much it is only when you really believe and trust
0:48.0	someone that they have the ability to disappoint you and the same with an institution like the church
0:53.3	of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints it is only when I love an institution a church so much that
0:58.8	it has the ability to disappoint me for instance a number of years ago there was some sort of scandal
1:04.4	involving the United Way and the CEO of the company having gold fixtures in his bathroom that created
1:12.6	quite a scandal so much so that I can remember it even though I think it's been over 25 years since
1:17.0	that happened and yet even though I remember it it did not disappoint me and the reason it didn't
1:22.5	disappoint me is because I have no involvement with the United Way I have never volunteered there
1:27.8	I've never worked for the United Way I've never contributed to the United Way and I think that
1:31.9	the closer a person is to the United Way the more likely they are to be disappointed by that kind
1:37.3	of a revelation by the same token though I was not disappointed by that scandal involving the
1:42.6	United Way I was very disappointed in the LDS church over the SEC the securities and exchange
1:49.0	scandal that broke wide open just a couple of months ago by the way I am recording this on
1:54.4	April 16th 2023 for the record but you might ask why is it that you're disappointed by the LDS
2:01.2	church in 2023 when you have long since concluded that its truth claims just do not hold up when you
2:07.7	no longer believe in the divine origin and nature and guidance of the LDS church why should an SEC
2:14.8	scandal in 2023 disappoint me that is the question that I've been pondering and I don't know that
2:21.4	I have the answer all I know is that it is a fact and I don't know if I'm the only one who has
2:26.6	experienced this all I know is that I have put Mormonism or at least its truth claims in my
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