Dehlin "SITH was one of the top three reasons"

In an August 2024 podcast about the CES Letter, John Dehlin says "we did a study of 3,000 ex Mormons to try and understand why so many people were leaving the church. Seer stone in the Hat was one of the top three reasons." 2:09:33

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T13dVy3izM

The entire video offers examples of the impact of SITH on Latter-day Saints.

Main points:

2 excerpts:

The ridiculous nature of SITH:

1:07:27 this whole story is so ridiculous when when you dig into it... He is conceding the

whole story of the rock that is just found accidentally is more advantageous evidently than using what God preserved for 2,000 years... 

It doesn't make sense in the worldview of Mormonism that God would preserve both the plates and the medium to translate... That's why he's saving them. These are the way you're going to be able to translate these plates. So you got to have those spectacles in that box

since 400 AD. There's those spectacles been in that box for Joseph to use to translate and then he doesn't need anything in the Box... 

Stephen Harper's "CES Letters" site as an introduction to the original CES Letter.

(referring to https://www.cesletters.org/)

30:03 so Heraldo is recommending if you've got believing family and friends and you don't want to send them the CES letter, right, send them the CES letters and and that'll be a great 

introduction to the CES letter, by showing them CES letters because hey Richard bushman's on it.

Yes, yes, yeah and lots of BYU people and good things so it's safe, right?