Standing For Something More by Lyndon Lamborn

Iĭon't blame any one for not believing my history. I cannot tell it: I shall never undertake it. Brodie took a reflective comment made by Smith during a discourse - “You don't know me you never knew my heart. Brodie's seminal work No Man Knows My History, about the life and times of Joseph Smith. PS: He has 39 reviews on amazon, and almost every single one is five stars! You can buy the print book on amazon here for between $10 & $15, or here on kindle for only $2.95. Hesitate to HIGHLY recommend it to other disaffected members seekingĮnlightenment into their own psyches, or to those who have left otherįaiths of intense indoctrination. I finished the entire book in less than 48 hours. It proved a window into my own psyche, provided ample discussion material for me and my husband and me and my psychologist, and gripped me in a way other former-LDS works haven't.

Having faced such idiocy, Lamborn is open about his views of the church and its cultist attitudes, laying out in wonderful specificity how the church works its cultish magic. One can imagine that sharing truth didn't go over well, and to this day you can youtube 'Lyndon Lamborn excommunication' and listen to the recorded audio of his 'court of love' when his stake president excommunicated him for apostasy. No big surprise, most of his class members had no clue about Joseph Smith's myriad wives.or that many of them were still married to their original husbands when he married (and consummated the marriages with) them. Lamborn discovered, as a priesthood instructor, some of the church's historical 'skeletons' and doctrinal inconsistencies, and began incorporating them into his lessons. Obedience is key, of course thinking is only allowed when the thinker reaches the conclusion the church desires. Lamborn, born into the church, has a scientific mind.which is a serious detriment to a Mormon. Honestly executed, and Lamborn is comprehensive both in his review ofįacts and his delving into the psyche of the indoctrinated. Guide for the epistemoloy of the LDS church. Having read, as a disaffected member, about a million books for andĪgainst the faith, this book has hit the top of my list as a reference Standing For Something More: the Excommunication of Lyndon Lamborn, by Lyndon Lamborn I will add to it slowly and over time, and it will take me a while to go backward over all those I've read, so don't expect too much along the lines of reviews at first! By the way, if you know of any books that are worth my recommending, please let me know so I can look into them! This page will contain some of the books I've read, and links to purchase them if you're interested in further-educating yourself.

Standing For Something More by Lyndon Lamborn