Other LDS Critics
Are Any of Them Credible?
Are Any of Them Credible?
The Mormonish Podcast YouTube Channel has published 932 negative videos since their inception in November of 2022, and have had a total of 2,473,361 views (as of 9/7/2024) since that time. In May 2024, they were granted nonprofit status (under BIBLIOTECH MEDIA INC) and appear to be following the same business model that Mormon Stories and Mormon Discussions are following by publishing vast amounts of misinformation about The Church in order to expand the amount of donations they receive. But do they have any credibility? You can decide.
The Mormon.ish website published a video addressing this website, which includes proof that they aggressively solicit donations from those who have lost their faith. Since this website shows irrefutable evidence of their tactic, their only defense was to claim this website also solicits donations. This website has never solicited donations and never will. They simply had to lie to divert attention away from their aggressive tactics. Credible?
Mormonish published this flowchart to mock a flowchart I created showing the critics' business model.
Note their goals: stop attending church, stop wearing garments, Sundays off, buying boats and bikinis. Credible?
The late Fawn Brodie (1915 to 1981) was one of the early critics of the Church, and wrote a controversial biography of Joseph Smith titled "No Man Knows My History" . Hugh Nibley later wrote a response to her book titled "No Maam, that's not History" . Fawn gained access to highly restricted materials by lying and claiming to be "Brother McKay's daughter" (she was his niece)
As reported by her non-member biographer, Newell Bringhurst, Fawn suffered with debilitating cancer later in life. As death neared, the cancer spread to her brain and bones, and Brodie suffered intense pain. During this period, she was visited in the hospital by her brother Thomas, and she asked him to "give her a blessing", using the same priesthood restored by the man she had spent a lifetime disparaging. Credible?