BS Summary: This article contains 10 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Primacy Effect, and Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 43.1% saturation with 75 hits. Analysis detected 395 faulty-reasoning hits from 174 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 66.2% and a BS Rank of 74% (5,693 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 74.00% of the article peer group.
Chief among those questions was this: Why are so many people — many of them, apparently, devout believers — exiting The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
Strong’s research suggests that the faith’s U.S.-based membership has shrunk 40% over the last quarter century.
The reasons people leave are varied, but often have to do with the history of the Church, as well as with its social attitudes.
That’s led, says Strong, to a profound feeling among many Mormons of being torn between love of faith and love of family.
Join us for a conversation about how to repair this division and about his book.
It’s called “Torn.”
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Jeff Strong | He’s a former LDS bishop and mission president who’s worked in the consumer products industry and has been a faculty member at Brigham Young University.
His book is called “Torn: Why People We Love are Leaving the Church and What We Can Learn from Them.”
Airdate: July 1, 2026
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