Fast Facts on Mormonism

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Summary: Author's anti-Mormon bias shows through from page 1.
Review: While not a Mormon myself, the anti-Mormon tone of this book bothered me from the first pages. The authors oviously have an axe to grind with the Mormon church. It seems that they are annoyed that the Mormons have been recruiting most of their new members from the existing ranks of the Protestant church. The authors wrote this book in order to motivate their fellow Protestants to do something about this problem.

The thing that irritated me most about the book is the systematic discrediting of Joseph Smith and The Book of Mormon. The analysis itself didn't bother me. What bothered me was the failure of the authors to apply the same strict standard of proof to their own Bible. I seriously doubt that it could withstand the same kind of scrutiny that they subject the Mormon texts to. Perhaps they should read some of Bart Ehrman's works on the Bible. He does apply such scrutiny and the results aren't pretty.

If you are interested in reading an anti-Mormon treatise, then this is your book. If you want some unbiased facts about the Mormons, read Mormon America by Richard and Joan Ostling instead.