The 5 Stages of LDS Apologetics

Stage	Description
Stage 1	Denial/Divert
Stage 2	Ad Hominem
Stage 3	Justify/Rationalize
Stage 4	Diminish Consequences
Stage 5	Acknowledge/Obey
*Bearing Testimony is the punctuation mark for each stage.

[1]    familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/SP6X-Q65
[2]    wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Mar_Kimball
[3]    lds.org/scriptures/bofm/jacob/2.24-30#23
[4]    gapminder.org World Census Data 1840
[5]    gaymarriage.procon.org

Land of Lucre; Real Estate Holdings of LDS Apostles

Data compiled in a google map

Other Claims:

Average Home in SLC area is $358,000
http://trulia.com/real_estate/Salt_Lake_City-Utah/market-trends


NOTE:  There is an ongoing investigation into the holdings.  More homes may be uncovered so this list should not be considered a complete representation only that which we've been able to unveil.

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Stargate SG-1; More True Than the Book of Abraham

This scene from Stargate SG-1 Season 4 Episode 13, "The Curse"
http://stargate.mgm.com/view/episode/2502/index.html

Synopsis of "The Curse"

Figure #2, Facsimile #3, Book of Abraham, Pearl of Great Price
http://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/abr/fac-3

The complete Facsimile #3 Examination
http://www.mormoninfographics.com/2012/08/book-of-abraham-facsimile-3-examined.html

Hill Cumorah Stone Box Vault

"On the west side of this hill, not far from the top, under a stone of considerable size, lay the plates, deposited in a stone box. "
Joseph Smith History, Pearl of Great Price, Chapter 1 verse 51

Early Mormon Prophets and their Young Brides

[JS] https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/SP6X-Q65
[BY] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Brigham_Young's_wives
[JT] “Champion of Liberty”, Mary Jane Woodger, pub. 2009
[WW] aka Emma Smith, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilford_Woodruff
[LZ] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_Snow#Wives_and_children
[JFS] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_F._Smith#Marriages_and_family

Book of Mormon Witnesses, we don't have their signatures

References

[1] Testimony of Eight Witnesses, June 1829, josephsmithpapers.org
[2] US Declaration of Independence, July 1776, Library of Congress

For more analysis see pages 55-56 "A Letter to a CES Director"

Elder Marlin K. Jensen on Polyandry (Swedish Rescue Fireside)

Honest Mormonism in a Parallel Universe

 
Top Left Photo
This is a current display at the LDS Conference Center depicting the Book of Mormon translation process.

Top Right Photo
This is a current display at the LDS Salt Lake Temple Square North Visitor Center depicting the Book of Mormon translation process.

Bottom Photos
Based on the actual historical record.  As reported by witnesses and documented by scholars and historians.  And acknowledged in obscurity by the LDS church.

"Joseph Smith would put the seer stone into a hat and put his face in the hat"
'A Treasured Testament' - Ensign July 1, 1993; Elder Russel M. Nelson
https://www.lds.org/ensign/1993/07/a-treasured-testament

Bottom Statement
This is a reference to the standard of honesty taught by the LDS church in Chapter 31 of the Gospel Principles Manual.



"To become completely honest, we must look carefully at our lives. If there are ways in which we are being even the least bit dishonest, we should repent of them immediately."

Credit idea for panel to the author of A Letter to a CES Director

The Mormon God Doesn't Need Plates

References

1 Nephi 4:10-13

10 And it came to pass that I was constrained by the Spirit that I should kill Laban; but I said in my heart: Never at any time have I shed the blood of man. And I shrunk and would that I might not slay him.

 11 And the Spirit said unto me again: Behold the Lord hath delivered him into thy hands. Yea, and I also knew that he had sought to take away mine own life; yea, and he would not hearken unto the commandments of the Lord; and he also had taken away our property.

 12 And it came to pass that the Spirit said unto me again: Slay him, for the Lord hath delivered him into thy hands;

 13 Behold the Lord slayeth the wicked to bring forth his righteous purposes. It is better that one man should perish than that a nation should dwindle and perish in unbelief.

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"Joseph Smith would put the seer stone into a hat and put his face in the hat"
'A Treasured Testament' - Ensign July 1, 1993; Elder Russel M. Nelson
https://www.lds.org/ensign/1993/07/a-treasured-testament

2 Nephi 5:21 on a Missionary Plaque

2 Nephi 5:21

And he had caused the cursing to come upon them, yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity. For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become like unto a flint; wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them.

** "Elder Williams" and his image used with permission

Missionary Plaque as a PDF Pass Along Card:

http://www.afterallwecando.com/Missionary Plaque.pdf

See Also:

The Way of the Mister: Mormonism is Racism

DNA Evidence has forced another edit to the Book of Mormon

References:

[1] "An Analysis of Selected Changes in Major Editions of the Book of Mormon", Jeffrey R. Holland
      Master Thesis, BYU, 1966, page 1

[2] The introduction was modified in 2010

[3] DNA evidence does not support the American Indian as a Lamanite descendant.

[4] Parody of actual Joseph Smith quote: "the Most Correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion"
      History of the Church 4:461

Other Resources:

[A] Book of Mormon, First Edition, 1830, Scanned Online Copy

[B] Book of Mormon, Introduction, Online, lds.org

[C] "3,913 Changes in the Book of Mormon", Jerald and Sandra Tanner, Utah Lighthouse Ministry, Published 1996

Word of Wisdom, LDS Newsroom "Getting it right"

Reference:

'Finally, another small correction: Despite what was reported, the Church revelation spelling out health practices (Doctrine and Covenants 89) does not mention the use of caffeine.  The Church’s health guidelines prohibit alcoholic drinks, smoking or chewing of tobacco, and “hot drinks” — taught by Church leaders to refer specifically to tea and coffee.'
LDS Newsroom "Mormonism in the News: Getting It Right"
http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/mormonism-news--getting-it-right-august-29

See Also:

"And again, hot drinks are not for the body or belly." D&C 89:9

The Mormon God Sitting On His Throne

The Mormon God Sitting On His Throne is 'Min' the Phallic God.

References:

[1] Facsimile 2, BoA, lds.org/scriptures/pgp/abr/fac-2
Joseph Smith Translation:
"God sitting on his throne, revealing through the heavens the grand Key-words of the priesthood"

[2] Min; http://www.bookofabraham.com/boamathie/BOA_7.html
(Scroll down to Figure 7)

Joseph Smith said that figure 7, "Represents God sitting upon his throne, revealing through the heavens the grand Key-words of the Priesthood; as also, the sign of the Holy Ghost unto Abraham, in the form of a dove."
This figure is clearly the ithyphallic god Min. Next to Min ... is the ithyphallic snake which represents Atum, whose power of creation was often represented in the form of a snake. The ithlyphallic pose underlines this creative aspect. I suspect that the unfinished representation of Atum in Facsimile 2 (due probably to damage in the original) was interpreted by Joseph to be a figure "in the form of a dove", rather than that of a snake.
Overall, this entire lower register describes the deceased's entry into the divine realm of the afterlife and the beginning of his/her transformation — his/her re-birth to that realm, as represented by these ithyphallic figures.

LDS Apologists Agree that Figure 7 is Min the ithyphallic God

Note, even LDS apologists admit that this figure, with the erect penis, is the god Min. (page 11, last paragraph of the above link). "7. A seated ithyphallic god with a hawk's tail, holding aloft a flail. This is a form of Min"

(Quoted from mormonthink.com)

See also:

Facsimile #2 Examined