To: HiTech RedNeck
Is this representative of how the LDS church got its start? Are we looking at a bunch of recent (within living memory) doctrines ginned up to enable such shenanigans?
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Yes, it is how the LDS church got its start. These core doctrines and teachings are from Joseph Smith and have not been repudiated or condemned by the SLC Mormons, even though they stopped practicing polygamy by 1930 (the first ‘manifesto’ was given in 1890 but not as revelation or commandment but merely as suggestion).
17 posted on
08/02/2011 7:19:58 PM PDT by
reaganaut
(Ex-Mormon, now Christian - "I once was lost, but now am found; was blind but now I see")
To: reaganaut
Yes, it is how the LDS church got its start. These core doctrines and teachings are from Joseph Smith and have not been repudiated or condemned by the SLC Mormons, even though they stopped practicing polygamy by 1930 Never repudiated or condemned?
To: reaganaut; HiTech RedNeck
Polygamy and raping children are not the same thing. Both are destructive and evil but they I don’t think the early LDS church supported marriage between 50 yr old men and 14 yr old girls.
21 posted on
08/02/2011 7:26:17 PM PDT by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: reaganaut
(the first ‘manifesto’ was given in 1890 but not as revelation or commandment but merely as suggestion).
Inasmuch as laws have been enacted by Congress forbidding plural marriage...
I hereby declare my intention to submit to those laws..."
~ Wilford Woodruff, 4th LDS President
51 posted on
08/03/2011 2:46:22 PM PDT by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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