Question #2.The only truth I am trying to advance is the correct view of the Church and its members. Not the truths of the gospel per se. There is SO MUCH error and falsehood flying around about the Church and its members, somebody ought to just be able to say, "Wait a minute. That is flat out wrong." You see how people here are very much prone to "you really believe this even though you don't say it" kind of thinking. I am one of a very few actual believing LDS who is on the board to correct the misconceptions.
The vast majority of us here were members. Why do the beliefs we held as Mormons not count?
by the way, your God is a strange character. He restored the "one true" church on the earth, and gave it the only true priesthood power, the only way to be with not only one's family, but God himself, our Father, in the next life. Yet he bestows powerful spiritual experiences on people, without regard to the fallacious nature of their current beliefs.
It's almost as if he wants people to believe the wrong thing.
Sometimes it seems to me that one difference between atheists and theists is that theists are willing to characterize God in any way that enables them to retain belief, whereas atheists won't. In the end, you end up with a somewhat warped God (not unlike the damage LGT does to the Book of Mormon). That's why this statement makes sense to me:
It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other hand, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument -- their intellect -- which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence. It is tempting to conclude that if he exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously. ~Galen Strawson