Six Voices

Same topic. Different voices.

This page compares how different LDS / Mormon / exmormon audiences tend to frame the same issues. These are representative statements (not quotes) meant to capture typical emphasis, tone, and level of detail.

How to read this

Each topic has six cards. Open a card to see a representative framing and a few notes. “Spicy mode” adds short commentary lines without changing the underlying statements.

Faithful Critical

Low detail High detail

Groups

1) Primary
2) Sunday School
3) Saints (official narrative history)
4) Rough Stone Rolling (faithful academic biography)
5) No Man Knows My History (critical biography)
6) “Anti-Mormon” redditors (polemic / social)

Note: This project is about framing as much as facts — what gets emphasized, what’s deferred, and what conclusions are considered “allowed.”

Polygamy

Compare how the same history is presented

Primary1

Faithful • low detail

Sunday School2

Faithful • medium detail

Saints3

Faithful • more context

Rough Stone Rolling4

Mixed • high context

Brodie5

Critical • high detail

Reddit6

Very critical • punchy

Primary

Faithful Low detail

“Heavenly Father sometimes asks His prophets to do difficult things. In the early days of the Church, some families lived plural marriage. Even when we don’t understand everything, we can trust God and choose faith.”

Typical omissions: mechanics, dates, Joseph Smith, secrecy, relational harm.

Spicy note: Optimized for psychological safety, not historical completeness.

Book of Abraham

Where “translation” becomes the battleground