What is a question about Mormonism that you never would have thought to ask when you were a true believer that is an obvious question to ask now that you don't believe.

1. How can you believe that god is omnipotent and loving when he can't even figure out how to make it possible for more men to choose righteously? (I'm talking about eternal polygamy -- it makes NO sense to me)

2. You talk, talk, talk, talk, talk about woman's divine role as wife and mother, but when you address single and childless women, it is usually just to tell them that everything will work out in the eternities as long as they are single/childless "through no fault of their own." How can you negate/dismiss their very existence like that and not expect them to leave, or at least to challenge you?

3. Why the hell does a person need a penis to be a ward clerk, sunday school president, institute coordinator, ces administrator, etc.?

4. You teach that hunting should be for food only, so why do you ask older missionary couples to run your expensive hunting preserve?

5. You teach that people should be modest (I'm talking about the REAL definition -- not just the "girls need to dress like nuns" definition), that they shouldn't shop on Sunday, that they shouldn't partake of coffee and tea, that they should be careful with money, etc. -- so why did you open a multi-billion dollar shopping mall that goes against all of that?

6. Why do you teach that the way a man reacts to a girl's clothing is HER fault? In that vein, how the hell did you come up with your idiotic "modesty" standards? I'm turned on by men's hands, but I don't expect them to veil them all of the time. Is a woman's kneecap or shoulder really that provocative?

7. KOLOB? Really?

The most profound moment in the founding of TSCC was JS first vision.
Why did he take so long to discuss it and why was it not recounted to the members of the church until 10 years after TSCC was founded??

WTF is the actual point of Baptisms for the Dead, or doing all the endowment work, etc.? I mean, if God is God and really omnipotent and all powerful and all knowing...can't he just know that dead person accepts the church and wants to be Mormon (you're dead and someone is trying to convert you to a certain church, I would think that's a pretty decent giveaway as to what you should, as an aside). Can't he just snap his fingers and be like "cool, works done, you're in, baptized, sealed, etc." Like why does he need measely humans to perform some ritual for him, if he can just be "oh they believe, they're Mormon now /snaps fingers, all done!"

(To answer myself, I'll assume its a combination of just passing down Joseph Smith's circus rituals he made up and just mindlessly accepting them + gotta give TBMs yet another thing to occupy their time and invest their lives into, because goodness forbid they have 12 seconds to spare to sit and think and realize what dipshittery it all is.)

If the gospel is so simple and plain and precious, why is it that even the most apt gospel scholars and church leaders can't consistently tell when god is speaking to them? How is someone with an IQ of 80 supposed to ever figure it out?

What do they do with all that tithing money?

A few off the top of my head:

1- Premortal life: they teach that Satan wanted all the glory but Christ didn't want any of it but wanted all the glory to go the father. But them why is all the glory going to Christ? Jesus did this and that, glory to his name, he's our savior, church named after him, etc. What's the difference?

2- If the LDS church is led by revelation, why didn't God bother telling 10 different prophets that banning blacks from the priesthood, temple, being sealed, missionary service, etc was outright racist false doctrine and not his will?

3- In the LDS church's recent DNA essay, it sites a study that agrees people came across the land bridge to the Americas 10,000+ years ago and they inhabited the Americas and are among the ancestors of the native people of this hemisphere. How the do you explain a literal flood that supposedly happened only around 5,000 years ago and killed everyone on earth minus those on the ark?

Why the fuck should I trust the words of a guy who used seer stones to hunt treasure? We have things we call people who do that- Crazy, conman, mentally ill, liar.... but certainly not prophet.

Why did Lehi and his family build a boat on the Red Sea instead of the Mediterranean Sea so they could sail to America?

From Jerusalem, the coast of the Mediterranean Sea is closer and the path from there to America is half the distance since they wouldn't have to sail around the Horn of Africa or across the Pacific.

Did Joseph just include the Red Sea since it is mentioned in the Bible?

Just cause we don't have a record of it does't mean it didn't occur. Perhaps he did visit other people? Nothing says he only visited South America and Israel.

My question's are related to stories in the Bible - Noah, Red Sea, Tower of Babel all seem pretty implausible. I have been Scuba Diving in the Red Sea, it is deep and steep and there is no way someone could have crossed any part of it that I have seen, were it dry. And Noah....don't get me started on that one.

My question: God?

How many are there anyway" does the mormon god have a god that he has to answer to? Is it gods all the way down? Is satan a god, he must be if he is planning to challenge the god god.

Why are all of god's plans so convoluted? Like the flood, that is the best plan he can come up with? Or "restoring" his church? He tells his big plan to ONE dude and that guy is suppose to tell everyone else? Just too many to mention...

And temples. Some of my family converted way back and had to leave Denmark, on sailing ships, and get to Utah. Partly because they had to get to a temple. As a child, way back in the old days the 50's -60's I couldn't figure out how the people who converted to mormonism but lived in other countries were suppose to get to a temple. So now there are temples everywhere, which brings us to the next question:

How is it that gods "one true church on earth today, restored in it's fullness" , also is a growing living changing thing?

And if families are so important, why does the "gospel" tear them apart?

If Monson is a prophet, what has he successfully foretold?

If there are situations that "will be sorted out by God in the next life, so don't worry about it now," such as eternal families with a divorce, and their kids BIC, and adoptions, why can't God sort everyone out? Why do we need to do sealings if some people get it taken care of later? If its an eternal commandment, why do they get a pass?

Where did the original set of plates go? Joe gave them to his buddy to show off to buddy's wife and they disappear. Wouldn't they like... show up? Or a record of their sale or something...?

Why did Old Testament prophets and Jesus come from outside the Levitical priesthood order to challenge the establishment, but Mormonism conflates prophets and priesthood?

So my question now is this: didn't he love the people of China, India, Australia, Africa etc? Why didn't he visit any of those people and establish his church there after he was resurrected? Especially given the new essay refuting that dark skin is a curse, we know the reason he isn't visit is because they were cursed for their dark skin.

Common answer is he did, we just don't know about it yet.

Most obvious: How can the evil men change the 116 pages when they were written in ink?

It's SO BLOODY OBVIOUS I seriously questioned whether or not I was intelligent when I read it on MormonThink.

Despite visits to Nauvoo and Carthage at least twice a year for my entire childhood, never, not even once, did anyone ask WHY Joseph was in that jail in the first place.

Also, live in a place with shoddy or nonexistant record keeping (i.e. most of history), too bad, we can't dead dunk you without your name, you fail.

Maybe not a question, but it took me a while to realize there were no women in the BoM. Though 'slutty' or 'shameful' or 'pious,' there are at least key women in the bible! I guess God is just a damn sexist.

Why do the scriptures keep contradicting themselves? Aren't these supposed to be the word of God... oh, men making shit up while stealing from a variety of sources? Yeah, that totally makes sense now.

Since the church is so very gender segregated in regards to church roles, how does the church deal with transgender members (assuming they were welcome)?

Are MtF's no longer allowed to receive the priesthood? Are FtM's allowed to? What about intersex members?

When ever some one says "I know the Church is true and you can pray to get your own answer" I'd ask them to tell me about the time they got their answer.

I'm willing to bet 90% of them haven't even had an experience that can be called a "spiritual wittness after prayer".

We are socially converted to the social structure of the Church and then say "we know" because we were taught to. I don't recall a single fast and testimony meeting where someone confirmed Mormoni's promoise.

I'd bet that 9 times out of ten if you ask someone testifying of Moroni's promise about their own experience they'd come up empty. Kinda stops them dead in their tracks.