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Radio Free Mormon

The LDS Label Machine

Radio Free Mormon

Mormon Discussion Inc

Religion & Spirituality

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2026

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Why Do People Leave the LDS Church? In this episode of Mormonism Live, Bill Reel and Radio Free Mormon examine a topic that has been discussed inside Mormonism for nearly two centuries: why do people leave the Church? From early sermons by Brigham Young to modern General Conference addresses, Latter-day Saint leaders have offered explanations… Read More »The LDS Label Machine

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0:00.0

Good evening, everybody.

0:02.5

Mormonism live, Radio Free Mormon, Bill Rio.

0:05.4

Here we are tonight.

0:06.4

RFM, I'll check in with you before we get, jump into the episode.

0:09.4

But how was your week or anything that's going on in your world that you want to share with folks?

0:15.0

Oh, I can't hear you, my friend.

0:17.8

Thank you.

0:18.9

Eventful, very eventful week.

0:20.4

Too much to share right now. But we'll get to it as we as we need to as far as announcements go.

0:25.9

Okay, excellent. Well, then let's jump into it. So tonight, let me get rid of the overlay there.

0:31.5

I like this background that you've come up with, by the way, in the last few weeks.

0:35.5

Good, good. We've been using it here for a little while.

0:46.2

Tonight's episode is the LDS label machine. And this came to me because there's a website that does like a, I want to call it an article or a blog post. I'll put it up on the screen here. This came out

0:52.7

years ago. And there was a previous version of it, I think, or maybe it was an

0:58.2

old web page that somebody else had done, but it was a, the name of the blog is called a careful

1:04.8

examination, and this particular article is called How Those Who Leave the LDS Church Are Viewed.

1:13.9

And I am, unlike Joseph Smith, I'm going to tell you on the front end that I have directly borrowed a lot from this article tonight.

1:22.9

But I'm going to scroll down just so you can see.

1:26.0

And the idea is that this goes through all of

1:28.9

Mormon history pulling out the quotes that demean people who have questions,

1:36.1

doubts, or leave. And it goes on and on. I'm going to speed it up here so we can get through it.

1:41.6

But it goes on and on and on. So just keep in mind tonight that as we go

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