Many sincere and loving men and women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints find troublesome facts online about the church founder Joseph Smith. Many of those facts have recently been validated by the Church’s own website. When families are broken up as one spouse cannot in good conscience remain in the church, the high price of fidelity to the truth is realized.

Humility, sincerity and love are required to find empathy and mend hearts. One man’s story mirrors many that are happening all over the world.

Church history, read from its original sources without any convoluted rationalization, censorship or distortion is a form of “theological pornography.” The church has a good reason for warning its members from discovering it. Just as the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Christian Scientists and Unification Church do, the LDS church knows that people who study the documentary record of the founder of the faith are more likely to reconsider the truth claims of the religion.

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