| Contents |
| Preface | Introduction |
| 1: Historicity | 2: Accountability | 3: Disavow | 4: Whistleblower | 5: Lockdown | 6: Truth | 7: Character | 8: Ultimatum | 9: Audition | 10: Overboard |
| Synopsis | Conclusions |
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10 Parables in Search of the Answer
By Krey Hampton
2017
| pdf Version |
Contents:
Preface: Who Are Ewe?
Why speak in parables?
Introduction: Blissful Ignorement
Can we adopt another’s perspective?
Chapter 1: A Tale of Two Historicities
Should scriptural translations be taken literally?
My Analogy: Shadmax, Moritz, and Abednego
My Reality: Meta-Mormon
Chapter 2: Age of Accountability
Can LDS policies on LGBTQ issues be rationalized?
My Analogy: Children of Grievous Sinners
My Reality: Uninvited
Chapter 3: Disavowment
Can the LDS history of racial discrimination be rationalized?
My Analogy: Interwoven
My Reality: Selma
Chapter 4: Whistleblower
Should you give kids direct orders concerning religion?
My Analogy: High Treason
My Reality: Gallipoli
Chapter 5: Lockdown
When does God condone violence?
My Analogy: Active Shooter
My Reality: Duck, Cover, and Hold
Chapter 6: Tell the Truth!
Should you tell the truth or promote your cause?
My Analogy: Fahrvergnügen
My Reality: Yin and Yang!
Chapter 7: Character Witness
Would you call the Emperor’s buff?
My Analogy: The Emperor’s New Bronco
My Reality: Action-Redaction
Chapter 8: Ultimatum
Can Mormons demand accountability of their leaders?
My Analogy: Say Something
My Reality: Say Anything!
Chapter 9: Audition
Which is more important: how we treat each other or who is right?
My Analogy: Top Secret!
My Reality: Prima Ballerina
Chapter 10: Tempestuous
When is it time to jump ship?
My Analogy: Man Overboard
My Reality: The Old Ship Zion
Synopsis
Could Abraham be a Hor?
Conclusions
Now What?
This got much, much longer than I originally intended, so feel free to go straight to the synopsis for the spoiler:
“Why I am no longer a believing Mormon in 200 words or less“
GoFundKevin: 2023 Epilogue on the SEC ruling against the LDS church
| Contents |
| Preface | Introduction |
| 1: Historicity | 2: Accountability | 3: Disavow | 4: Whistleblower | 5: Lockdown | 6: Truth | 7: Character | 8: Ultimatum | 9: Audition | 10: Overboard |
| Synopsis | Conclusions |
| pdf Version |