A few years ago, I was talking to a group of my New York friends (all atheist) about some of my problems with Mormonism. Their response was fairly typical: If you don’t like Mormonism, why don’t you join another church? In fact, why don’t you make up your own church? They suggested I make a splinter group of Mormonism and use the parts of my faith that I liked (the Book of Mormon, the temple rites, etc.) and just leave behind the parts that I didn’t.
Since publishing The Bishop’s Wife, I have received a surprising number of emails from non-Mormons to the same tune. Some suggest their own religion as the superior alternative. Others just seem confused.
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