/lit/ - Literature

>>17327623
me neither. I was ready to go on a mormon mission for 2 years. I had my application forms ready, had done my physical and everything. it was just a matter of turning them in. I saw this book in the library and read it in 2 days. and it was totally devastating. I felt the whole world crashing on me, realizing that there was no god, and nothing will happen after we die.
a couple years later, I read Rough Stone Rolling, by practicing patriarch, ex-bishop, ex-stake president, and mormon scholar Lyman Bushman, and that book was probably 10 times more discouraging than Brodie's book. this was one of the few books that changed my life

>>17327694
Imagine needing a book to realize how ridiculous Mormonism is

>>17327623
Is it really that readable? I'm interested in the topic, but thought the book might be a taxing read.

>>17327731
Oh, come on. If you were born in a Mormon community you'd believe it too. Hell, if you were born in ancient Canaan, you'd be worshiping a cow right now.

>>17327752
I was born into a catholic family and by age 6 I had reasoned that nothing supernatural existed. I’d like to think I would have resisted a more cult like entity like the mormons too

>>17327752
It’s actually based.

Read rough stone rolling.

>>17327623
See >>17323251

>>17328207
Harold Bloom is burning in hell.

>>17327752
not everyone’s a tard