Floodlit.org - database of alleged and confirmed Mormon sexual offenders

[Dr Moore]

Welcome to the board, Sleepyvark48! Best of luck with your project. Love the name. Sunligh is the best disinfectant.

[Poly G Porter]

I searched on old humpin Joe:

https://floodlit.org/a/a329/

[sleepyvark48]

Welcome to the board, Sleepyvark48! Best of luck with your project. Love the name. Sunligh is the best disinfectant.

Thank you! Exactly. That's why it's called Floodlit and I tend to put it in all caps, because it's meant to be like a set of floodlights. Each one may be small, but the array effect is brilliant and powerful.

[sleepyvark48]

I searched on old humpin Joe:

https://floodlit.org/a/a329/

Yeah. I figure he needs to be in there because after all, he was accused of sex-related crimes. I think there's a number of early LDS apostles I'll end up adding for that reason.

[Gadianton]

Every leader of a new religious movement from 10 members to a million or more eventually runs into the same problem. No matter what the premise or original intentions, it always ends up with with the leaders extorting money, sex, or both from the followers.

[drumdude]

Every leader of a new religious movement from 10 members to a million or more eventually runs into the same problem. No matter what the premise or original intentions, it always ends up with with the leaders extorting money, sex, or both from the followers.

I think most Mormon leaders aren’t evil, they have simply fallen into the age old trap of putting the needs of the organization above the needs of the victims.

It takes real courage and leadership to put the organization through the painful process of even acknowledging there is a problem. The LDS leadership is stuck in the “no one does more than us about abuse” denial phase.

[Gadianton]

You are correct drumdude, but I believe you're talking about modern leaders. Today's leaders aren't the founders. As Kuhn said of science, you need mountain climbers and valley crossers. The same is true in religion. Today's leaders are valley crossers, they have negative cool factor as Rusty displays all the time; they are just slightly bigger cogs in the same nonsense machinery. To their credit, most of the church leaders today would have nothing to do with Mormonism during its founding. Had Mark Hoffman been born in the time of Joseph, then he would have been an important leader.

[Moksha]

Hey, floodlit.org is my site - thanks for mentioning it. Here to answer any questions.

Verifying ownership of the website https://floodlit.org/site-verifications/.

So, what is this? https://archive.org/details/INSTANCESOF ... 7/mode/2up

[IHAQ]

Welcome to the board, Sleepyvark48! Best of luck with your project. Love the name. Sunligh is the best disinfectant.

Thank you! Exactly. That's why it's called Floodlit and I tend to put it in all caps, because it's meant to be like a set of floodlights. Each one may be small, but the array effect is brilliant and powerful.

Did you receive a Christmas Card from Kieron McConkie?

[Kishkumen]

You are correct drumdude, but I believe you're talking about modern leaders. Today's leaders aren't the founders. As Kuhn said of science, you need mountain climbers and valley crossers. The same is true in religion. Today's leaders are valley crossers, they have negative cool factor as Rusty displays all the time; they are just slightly bigger cogs in the same nonsense machinery. To their credit, most of the church leaders today would have nothing to do with Mormonism during its founding. Had Mark Hoffman been born in the time of Joseph, then he would have been an important leader.

Valley crossers. Hadn’t heard that one before. I like it.

As for Hofmann, I bet he would have had a trajectory more like John C. Bennett’s.