{"id":25,"date":"2023-09-27T01:59:13","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T01:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lettertomychild.net\/?p=25"},"modified":"2023-09-27T17:16:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T17:16:13","slug":"other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettertomychild.net\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"Other"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This section touches on a myriad of additional issues with the Mormon church. Issues such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Dishonestly of the church leaders with regard to whitewashing and hiding its problematic history<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Censorship and excommunication of people who speak out about problems in the church<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Church finances (i.e., the church built a $1.5 billion shopping mall rather than giving that money to charity; not being open about how it spends its tithing; insisting on tithing from even the very poor when they are clearly extremely wealthy, etc.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Racism (i.e., the Priesthood and Temple Ban)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Anti-intellectualism and criticizing people for wanting to learn about issues; telling people they can only look at church-approved sources, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Want more detail? See <a href=\"https:\/\/read.cesletter.org\/other\/\">https:\/\/read.cesletter.org\/other\/<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ldsdiscussions.com\/race\">https:\/\/www.ldsdiscussions.com\/race<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ldsdiscussions.com\/bantimeline\">https:\/\/www.ldsdiscussions.com\/bantimeline<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormonthink.com\/blackweb.htm\">http:\/\/www.mormonthink.com\/blackweb.htm<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormonthink.com\/tithing.htm\">http:\/\/www.mormonthink.com\/tithing.htm<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormonthink.com\/lying.htm\">http:\/\/www.mormonthink.com\/lying.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This section touches on a myriad of additional issues with the Mormon church. Issues such as: Want more detail? See https:\/\/read.cesletter.org\/other\/, https:\/\/www.ldsdiscussions.com\/race, https:\/\/www.ldsdiscussions.com\/bantimeline, http:\/\/www.mormonthink.com\/blackweb.htm, http:\/\/www.mormonthink.com\/tithing.htm and http:\/\/www.mormonthink.com\/lying.htm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_block_theme_hide_title":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Letter to My (Mormon) Child","author_link":"https:\/\/lettertomychild.net\/?author=2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettertomychild.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettertomychild.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettertomychild.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettertomychild.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettertomychild.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettertomychild.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettertomychild.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettertomychild.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettertomychild.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}