Ignorance Is NOT Bliss!
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the ‘bamboozle’. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The ‘bamboozle’ has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back”. ~ Carl Sagan Warning: This post will be long! T.B.M's, "True believing Mormons" should stop reading here! I was bamboozled by the Mormon Church for over 40 years. It was one of the hardest things I have ever done to challenge those intensely held, ingrained beliefs and change my mind about them. Admitting I was wrong was extremely difficult to put it lightly. I understand why so many people would rather stay in the religion of their childhoods, with their heads buried snugly in the sand, than leave it after they discover the deceitful ‘man behind the curtain’. It takes courage to pull ...