Talk:Criticism of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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Polygamous practices not accepted

People who choose to practice polygamy marriages have honestly left the main Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints. These people have decided to form their own version of the Mormon church and develop their own practices and so called rules.The main stream church does not acknowledge those who have started up their own version of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. 24.222.241.29 (talk) 21:01, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What Mormons do believe

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints believe that God is our Heavenly Father. We believe that Jesus the Christ is in fact the son of God. We believe that when baptized and you accept God as your Heavenly Father and Jesus have a the Son of God and you live a humble honest life you can in fact have the spirit of the Holy Ghost of God and his son Jesus Christ to live within your body and soul and your spirit as long as you live a humble honest truly believing in Christ and God.keeping your thoughts clean, pure, in mind, body, soul, spirit. Living each day in a true Christian obedience. Forsaking the desire of material things. 24.222.241.29 (talk) 21:09, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Conflation of Mormonism and the LDS Church

This page appears to discuss criticism of Mormonism more generally as well as criticism of the Church of Later Day Saints specifically.

This page should be renamed, and split or reorganized into a separate section for criticism of the LDS church specifically or an entirely new page. Both are not mutually exclusive of each other and shouldn't be mixed together in one article. Achilles999 (talk) 03:44, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Pastelitodepapa Would you be able to help me with this? Sorry to randomly ping you. This issue is bothering me and I saw you were editing this page recently. 🤠

I think it's an issue that the Criticism section of Mormonism links you to this page about a specific Mormon church. I think the best solution would be to separate them into two separate pages, but I'm not a very experienced editor and don't know how exactly to go about doing that. Achilles999 (talk) 04:03, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know that this article meets the threshold for WP:WHENSPLIT. If you'd like to author a new spinoff article titled Criticism of the Latter Day Saint movement or Criticism of Mormonism you're welcome to try following the steps here: WP:YFA. Pastelitodepapa (talk) 01:21, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Citation style standardization

I propose to standardize this article's citation template style to the majority one per WP:CITESTYLE which says "citations within any given article should follow a consistent style". Reasoning: About 85% of citations in this article are in the "cite x" style. Only 24 total citations are in "harvnb", while 155 are in the "cite x" style (with an additional 13 footnotes referencing those "cite x" ones using the "ref name" template). It would be a LOT more work to convert 85% of the citations to the harvnb format vs. converting the 15% minority to the majority "cite x" style to achieve the consistent style.

Are there any opposed to me making the citation style uniform to "cite x" for this article? If so, you'll need to volunteer to do the standardizing labor as I'm only willing to do it to the 15% of footnotes, and not vice versa. If I don't receive any opposing votes who volunteer to standardize it all the other way within a week or so I'll go ahead and do it. Pastelitodepapa (talk) 03:26, 16 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Criticisms page

Is this page really necessary? Vulturdactyl (talk) 06:35, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]