Most personally convincing reasons you don't believe.

[vorlon13]

To be honest it really scares me when people do stuff like that... argue the truth of one thing when its contradiction is right there in front of them essentially on the same page. It doesn't even seem like ignorance but rather a wilful act of stubborn defiance... like saying 'I know it's there but I will never admit it'. It just freaks me out.

If they admit it, they have to resign from the church or be excommunicated.  It does happen to Mormon apologists from time to time (what a GRIM job that is!!).

As for the pew warmers, Mormon doctrine provides them with cover for any particle of official church error.  As long as they are sincere, God won't hold them responsible for that particle of error.

So, the ones lying, just add one more lie to the pile, and then you have a viable religion, regardless of there being absolutely no foundation to it at all.  And LDS has no foundation as the church poobahs from day one with Joe Smith have documented, everything they have is not only subject to change, it HAS been changed, and they will never admit it because they don't have to.


Multiply by 78,000 and there in a nutshell is how the whole dog and pony show of Christendom works.