{"id":508,"date":"2013-07-25T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/07\/some-mormons-search-the-web-and-find-doubt.html"},"modified":"2014-07-28T12:48:06","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T17:48:06","slug":"some-mormons-search-the-web-and-find-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/07\/some-mormons-search-the-web-and-find-doubt.html","title":{"rendered":"Some Mormons Search the Web and Find Doubt"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"nyt_video_player\" title=\"New York Times Video - Embed Player\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/bcvideo\/1.0\/iframe\/embed.html?videoId=100000002347278&amp;playerType=embed\" width=\"480\" height=\"373\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>A high-ranking leader of the <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/mormonism' target='_blank'>Mormon church<\/a> in Europe voices his doubts about the truth of some of the church\u2019s teachings. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/07\/21\/us\/some-mormons-search-the-web-and-find-doubt.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">According to this NY Times story,<\/a>\u00a0Hans Mattsson was a pillar of the Mormon church in Europe but began to have doubts when fellow believers found \u00a0\u201cinformation from the Internet that contradicted the church\u2019s history and teachings.\u201d \u00a0For example, he saw credible evidence that Mormon founder, Joseph Smith was a polygamist and discovered that \u201cother scriptures were rife with historical anomalies.\u201d Other church officials are also questioning the church. The Times outlines the specific questions or anomalies about which Mattsson and others are talking.<\/p>\n<p>This might be a great article for a religion class. \u00a0Students might research whether these issues are \u00a0unique to Mormons.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A high-ranking leader of the Mormon church in Europe voices his doubts about the truth of some of the church\u2019s teachings. \u00a0According to this NY Times story,\u00a0Hans Mattsson was a pillar of the Mormon church in Europe but began to have doubts when fellow believers found \u00a0\u201cinformation from the Internet that contradicted the church\u2019s history [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1838,"featured_media":4576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Some Mormons Search the Web and Find Doubt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A high-ranking leader of the Mormon church in Europe voices his doubts about the truth of some of the church&#039;s teachings. \u00a0According to this NY Times\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/07\/some-mormons-search-the-web-and-find-doubt.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Some Mormons Search the Web and Find Doubt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A high-ranking leader of the Mormon church in Europe voices his doubts about the truth of some of the church&#039;s teachings. \u00a0According to this NY Times\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/07\/some-mormons-search-the-web-and-find-doubt.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"World Religions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-07-25T09:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-07-28T17:48:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/433\/2013\/07\/mormon-missionaries-elders.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"576\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"George G. 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