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How Radio Free Mormon Lost his Faith Pt. 2 | Ep. 1581

Join John and Jenn for Part 2 of our interview with popular Mormon podcaster Radio Free Mormon, wherein he shares the story of how he lost his Mormon faith. From TBM to RFM Part 1: https://bit.ly/3y4lJi7 Show Notes: Radio Free Mormon podcast https://bit.ly/3KtrSHa Mormonism Live with RFM and Bill Reel https://bit.ly/3KoXvS8 "A Treasured Testament," by Russell M. Nelson, Ensign, July 1993; one of few early examples of the Church admitting Joseph used a rock in a hat to produce the Book of Mormon https://bit.ly/3ksEwM0 New Testament Scholar Bart Ehrman on Mormon Stories https://bit.ly/3kpci4L Discuss Mormonism forum (RFM uses the handle "consiglieri") https://bit.ly/3F9uKYI RFM's first interview on Mormon Stories https://bit.ly/3ONkN7p Cleanthes' "Hymn to Zeus" https://bit.ly/3LqaOmB Secular Buddhism podcast https://bit.ly/3KwY7VE "Race and the Priesthood," Gospel Topics Essay https://bit.ly/3MJaqQb "How About an Apology for the Priesthood Ban?" on Radio Free Mormon https://bit.ly/3F8ZdpF Bill Reel on Mormon Stories https://bit.ly/3y4ktvb https://bit.ly/3s0uBRK https://bit.ly/3LqaPXH https://bit.ly/3744FO6 https://bit.ly/3y4lUtN "John Larsen interviews RFM" on Radio Free Mormon https://bit.ly/3s3UsbD "The Adam-God Historical Subterfuge," on Mormon Discussion podcast https://bit.ly/37N5Hyt Robert Ritner's interview on Mormon Stories https://bit.ly/3vsTCaq RFM vs. Midnight Mormons Debate https://bit.ly/3MIDGqe The Church is Not True podcast, with Mike Norton https://bit.ly/37Sjqnv "Rodney Meldrum Founder of the Heartland Model" on Mormon Stories https://bit.ly/37Zfz82 https://bit.ly/3vDOEbf Upcoming Events at Mormon Stories https://bit.ly/3kruSsR 00:00:00 Introduction and opening remarks 00:06:16 Called to repentance for privately questioning Church leadership 00:12:46 "The manual is death": Tries to teach uncorrelated material in Sunday School until another member reports him for it 00:23:12 Teaches his Sunday School class that Joseph Smith used a rock in a hat to produce the Book of Mormon 00:36:42 The correlated curriculum leaves out an entire world of knowledge: "I realized how incestuous Mormon scholarship is" 00:45:35 No one ever really graduates from Primary 00:54:07 While involved in online apologetics, he finds that "anti-Mormon" message boards have a much wider, more intelligent range of discussion 01:01:20 Non-Mormons have spiritual experiences, too, so Mormons have to rely on a double-bind explanation: Either it's Satan, or they're deluded, or they're lying 01:15:57 The X-Factor of Inspiration: Some people think Shakespeare didn't write the work attributed to him because---much like Joseph Smith---it's too sophisticated for his level of education 01:25:58 The perils of scriptural literalism, especially when Mormonism rests entirely on the historical accuracy of the Book of Mormon 01:29:40 "Thanks, Mom, I finally got through it": Spiritual experiences don't change; we have to be ready to receive them 01:35:25 RFM's spiritual experience of Moby Dick 01:40:09 "Praying for a witness that never came": Matthew 16:4 says it's evil to seek a sign...but then Moroni 10:3-5 is "How To Seek A Sign" 01:41:46 "Today's church leaders claim the mantle of Joseph, but they're feeding us air and then telling us we've been spiritually fed, and we all nod our heads when we all know we're actually starving to death." 01:47:15 The "hidden books of Scripture" have been hiding in plain sight---art, literature, and other works of inspiration 01:53:08 Stoicism and the similarities between Cleanthes' "Hymn to Zeus" and the Doctrine and Covenants 01:57:23 A Banquet of Milk: "There's a finite amount of things you can learn in the Church, and that's the mark of a bad teacher" 02:09:38 Blogging about evidence for and against the Book of Mormon led him to Church apologetics---which caused him to discover the anachronisms of the King James New Testament and the Book of Isaiah 02:26:58 The Church tells you to study the Scriptures, but they don't really want you to; they just want you to study the correlated interpretation 02:40:38 The influence of Mormon Stories and John Dehlin's excommunication 03:08:58 The birth of Radio Free Mormon 03:35:16 Avoiding competition and negativity in Mormon podcasting 03:58:37 Remembering Dr. Robert Ritner 04:08:14 Closing remarks --------------- We are 100% donor funded! Please click here to donate to keep this content coming!: https://donorbox.org/mormon-stories?d... --------------- *MSP on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3vu3oJz *Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3ktS6OY *MSP Blog: https://bit.ly/3OKTUkB *Instagram: https://bit.ly/3s3UCjf *Patreon: https://bit.ly/3MJoHg6 *TikTok: https://bit.ly/3KtdZIL *Discord: https://bit.ly/3vvKAtx Contact Us! *MormonStories@gmail.com *PO Box 171085 Salt Lake City, UT 84117 #RFM #LDS #Mormon #RadioFreeMormon #PostMormon #ExMormon #MormonStories #Religion #Education