I Answered the Mormon Temple Recommend Questions Honestly | INSTANT Regret!
Today on The Mormon News Roundup, I’m doing something different.
Instead of reacting to breaking news or the latest institutional scandal, I walk through the current temple recommend interview questions of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—and I answer them honestly, exactly as they are asked today.
If you don’t answer these questions “correctly,” you don’t enter the temple.
No temple, no ordinances.
No ordinances, no highest degree of heaven.
These questions are framed as measures of worthiness, spirituality, and moral fitness—but embedded in them are deep assumptions about authority, obedience, guilt, sexuality, money, epistemology, and even thought itself.
I spent decades answering these questions the “right” way. My livelihood once depended on it.
Today, I answer them truthfully.
This episode is not about mockery or personal grievance. It’s about examining whether these questions are coherent, ethical, evidence-based, or psychologically healthy. If truth matters, these questions deserve scrutiny—not automatic assent.
We go through all 18 temple recommend questions, covering topics like:
Faith vs. evidence
Testimony and emotional epistemology
Prophetic authority
Sexual shame and thought crime
Tithing and institutional deception
Honesty, obedience, and worthiness
You don’t need a recommend to be ethical.
You don’t need priesthood keys to be decent.
You don’t need secret rituals to be worthy.
If you find this episode helpful, uncomfortable, or clarifying—good.
That’s what honest inquiry does.
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