A vintage illustration of Joseph and Hyrum Smith being martyred by gunfire at Liberty Jail.
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POST-MORMON STORIES

What We Mean When We Say “Anti-Mormon”

William Shunn
6 min readSep 27, 2019

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This divisive and dismissive term is tossed around far too lightly.

A few months back, a video appeared online in which comedian Lewis Black read an angry rant submitted by an 18-year-old Mormon apostate. (Fan-submitted rants are a regular part of Black’s shows.) A week after the rant came out, Jana Riess of Religion News Service casually…

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William Shunn

Writer, poet and puzzle maker. Hugo and Nebula Award finalist. Author of The Accidental Terrorist: Confessions of a Reluctant Missionary. He/him/Bill.