I want you to study the Book of Mormon and pray if the LDS church is true.

I did, and I'm sorry but it's not true. There are too many problems, inconsistencies and anachronisms.

I did. I believed it too, but then I learned that my beliefs weren't necessarily right simply because I felt strongly about them.

Maybe you should focus on the message instead of the details. Jesus came to America!

But it says horses and chariots! And camels, donkeys, elephants, cows, wheat, silk, barley, steel and more! And how does, 'Feed my sheep' make any sense to people who don't have sheep?

No, he didn't. The only book that claims Jesus did is discredited as a history book due to the plagiarized errors of books created after it was supposedly buried, and the historical errors of major, continent wide events. (ie: sun not going down one night, war that killed everyone but two people, snakes that drove everyone to a new continent, world-wide flood, and population timings)

Why do you have to take it so literally?

Because you told me it was the most correct book on the earth, translated from original plates written by people who witnessed the events.

Because it's wrong. It claims to be literal. It's not. People's lives are being ruined because they treat it as a holy, literal, and correct text.

But why are you taking it so seriously?

Because you said it was the keystone of my religion ... And Pres. Hinckley said the LDS church was either true or a fraud with no middle ground.

Because Mormons take it seriously.

But why do those details matter?

Because you told me my eternal salvation depended on getting this right, and I need to know if this is a fraud.

Checkmate.