Other LDS Critics

Are Any of Them Credible?

There are other LDS critics, or Anti-Mormons on YouTube that are not yet at the same financial level as Mormon Stories or Mormon Discussion. But they still produce large amounts of videos disparaging the Church.  But are they credible?

MORMONISH PODCAST

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.   They have just been granted nonprofit status 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 of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in order to expand the amount of donations they receive.  But do they have any credibility?  You can decide.

MORMONISH MISINFORMATION

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 MOCKING

Mormonish Mocking Flowchart

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?

NUANCEHO

Nuanceho Vile Products

Products sold by Nuanceho (19.000.000 views on YouTube) give us an idea about their character.  Credible?

EXMO LEX

Exmo Lex sex toys

Logo for the Ex-Mo Lex Channel (5,200,000 views on YouTube).   She has the right to believe as she sees fit, but as it relates to publishing information about the Church, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have a right to know the background and belief system of the people who are providing videos making accusations about the Church. Credible?

FAWN BRODIE

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".  

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?

THEIR THUMBNAILS SAY IT All

It is the call of each Anti-Mormon YouTube channel owner the kind of material they wish to publish publicly.  If they wish to publish atheistic videos, drug related videos,  or any other kind of abhorrent behavior, that is their right.  But when they do so while simultaneously producing accusatory videos against the Church, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have the right to question their credibility.  And to determine their credibility, sometimes, all it takes is a thumbnail.  Credible?

SUMMARY

It is clear just from the limited information above where these anti-Mormons' stand.   While each is a child of God,  that doesn't mean we have to consume the information they publish about the Church, nor subscribe to their lifestyle.   

As Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we have a choice.   We can spend months or years researching the accusations from all these critics to separate fact from fiction, or we can simply take 20 minutes to educate ourselves about their credibility to provide accurate information.

We can subscribe to the anti-Mormon' path of "freedom" from the Church, from the Atonement, and the commandments, or we can subscribe to the path God has invited us to follow that results in joy in this life and exaltation in the eternities.