The Truth Process

Throughout my life I have had people become deeply disturbed when they find out that I was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ. I have had people tell me that they could no longer associate with me because of my membership. I have had people offer to help me safely escape because they feared for my safety if I tried to leave. People think that I believe some pretty wacked out garbage that is TOTALLY bizarre to me and that I COMPLETELY disagree with. Someone just told me that "mormons performed a secret oath and if they broke it they were to kill themselves or let someone else kill them" WHAT THE HECK?!?!! That is the weirdest thing I have ever heard and nothing like what I believe. So... where does this kind of stuff come from? Partly from reality and partly from distortions, misrepresentations, lies and propaganda. Some time ago a significant part of the American population were Free Masons (George Washington, Benjamin Franklin etc etc etc). A part of their cerem...