This is a short presentation I gave as part of the panel “Who Gets to Say What Former Mormons are Like?” at Sunstone 2024, organized by Chino Blanco, which was a reprise of the panel of the same name that I organized in 2012. When I set off for BYU…
Category: Atheists
Points of agreement between atheists and Mormons
In my last SiOB, I highlighted a list of “things that both atheists and Mormons can largely affirm together” by Aaron Shafovaloff. Then Andrew S picked up the discussion and even attracted Aaron Shafovaloff himself to attempt to explain it. I had highlighted the list mostly because many of the…
Building on a Religious Background
The following is an article I wrote for the October / November 2011 issue of Free Inquiry (the magazine of the Council for Secular Humanism), reposted here with permission from the editors. The Oct/Nov issue is a special issue on Mormonism, and one other MSP regular also contributed to it….
Religious Stereotypes Venn Diagram According To Google: Expanded Mormon Edition
I’m still working on the expanded LDS-inclusive diagram la BLAME IT ON THE VOICES, but in the meantime, here’s the raw data for your perusal. Tip o’ the hat to Joe.My.God: When you begin a Google search with the question “Why are [Christians, Jews, Muslims, fill-in-the-blank] so …” – you…