1463: From TBM to RFM: Radio Free Mormon Discusses his Transition from LDS Apologist to Non-Believer

Beloved podcaster Radio Free Mormon shares his reflections with John and Gerardo on how the transition from Mormon apologist to a non-believer and critic of the LDS Church.

From TBM to RFM Part 2:    • 1581: From TBM to RFM Pt. 2 - How Rad...  

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Show notes:

See More RFM!
https://radiofreemormon.org/
https://mormonismlive.org/ (Co-hosted with Bill Reel)

Mormon Stories episode featuring Radio Free Mormon:
https://www.mormonstories.org/podcast...

Mormon Stories episode featuring Gerardo Sumano:
https://www.mormonstories.org/podcast...

Mormon Stories episode featuring Bart Ehrman
https://www.mormonstories.org/podcast...

RFM's interview with Kerry Shirts
   • Radio Free Mormon: 225: Kerry Shirts ...  

Bill Moyers' series Genesis: A Living Conversation
https://billmoyers.com/series/genesis/

Bart Ehrman's New Testament course
https://www.audible.com/pd/The-New-Te...

Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri: An Egyptian Endowment by Hugh Nibley
https://www.amazon.com/Message-Joseph...

The Book of Mormon on Trial by Andrew Knaupp and J. Milton Rich
https://www.amazon.com/Book-Mormon-Tr...

Sustaining and Defending the Faith by Joseph Fielding McConkie and Robert L. Millet
https://www.amazon.com/Sustaining-Def...

Doctrinal Commentary on the Book of Mormon by Joseph Fielding McConkie and Robert L. Millet
https://www.amazon.com/Doctrinal-Comm...

Louis Midgley's review of Doctrinal Commentary on the Book of Mormon by Joseph Fielding McConkie and Robert L. Millet in the journal Review of Books on the Book of Mormon
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/msr/v...

Alma 34:34, with surrounding textual context
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/s...#31

Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It Into the New Testament by Bart D. Ehrman
https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Scripture...

Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew by Bart D. Ehrman
https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Christian...

The Lost Books of the Bible: Being All the Gospels, Epistles and Other Pieces Now Extant Attributed in the First Four Centuries to Jesus Christ by Solomon J. Schepps
https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Books-Bib...

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Timecodes:
00:00:00 Introduction and opening remarks
00:09:11 Why Mormon lesson materials are so bland and repetitive
00:19:24 How RFM initially became an LDS apologist
00:33:17 Learning to question the correlated answers
00:44:10 Apologetics provided an acceptable way to seek more information
00:50:35 Personal interaction with the Scriptures and attempts to get published
01:25:25 Believes he's learning things the brethren already know, but that aren't taught to the general membership
01:50:08 Moving on to information from academic disciplines and sources outside Mormonism
02:00:43 Music and dance enlivened the gospel---but made Church-approved material feel even duller
02:12:19 Scripture study within the Church is not intended to ever teach anything new
02:23:56 Uncovering his own biases while studying Christianity from non-LDS sources
02:59:11 Expanding his reading material to include non-religious classical literature
03:33:55 Closing remarks

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