I thought you might be referring to this fellows art...
The Book of Mormon Art of Arnold Friberg, "Painter of Scripture"
Posted on 05/25/2013 5:46:24 PM PDT by WilliamIII
I thought you might be referring to this fellows art...
Regarding the LDS I would agree. My thoughts were about Christians and the power to act in Christ’s name.
The LDS screwed over truly moral real Christians once again. The pro sodomy folks are using them as an example of how scouting will survive and that not all “Christians” oppose the Homosexual Agenda. All for the numbers, which combined with the fact their founding “prophet” buggered teen girls is no surprise...
History has recorded that SOMEone was really surprised!!!
Eliza was a devout Mormon.
Miss Eliza R. Snow was one of the first (willing) victims of Joseph in Nauvoo. She used to be much at the prophet’s house he made her one of his celestial brides... . Feeling outraged as a wife and betrayed as a friend, Emma is currently reported as having had recourse to a vulgar broomstick as an instrument of revenge: and the harsh treatment received at Emma’s hands is said to have destroyed Eliza’s hopes of becoming the mother of a prophet’s son (Dr. W. Wyl, Mormon Portraits, 1886, pp.57-58).
The Mormon writer Claire Noall acknowledged: “Willard realized that Emma had refused to believe that any of the young women boarding at the Mansion when it was first used as a hotel had been married to Joseph. She had struck Eliza Snow at the head of the stairs, and Eliza, it was whispered, had lost her unborn child” (Intimate Disciple, a Portrait of Willard Richards, 1957, p.407).
Sometime during February of 1843 Emma evidently became aware that Joseph had taken her best friend, Eliza R. Snow, as a plural wife. Eliza was currently living in the Smith home, which housed a number of boarders. LDS historians Linda Newell and Valeen Avery wrote:
When the full realization of the relationship between her friend Eliza and her husband Joseph came to her, Emma was stunned. . . . Although no contemporary account of the incident between Emma and Eliza remains extant, evidence leads to the conclusion that some sort of physical confrontation occurred between the two women. In 1886 Wilhelm Wyl published the first known version of the incident in his book, Joseph Smith the Prophet: His Family and His Friends:
They say . . . there is scarcely a Mormon unacquainted with the fact that Sister Emma . . . soon found out the little compromise arranged between Joseph and Eliza. Feeling outraged as a wife and betrayed as a friend, Emma is currently reported as having had recourse to a vulgar broomstick as an instrument of revenge; and the harsh treatment received at Emma’s hands is said to have destroyed Eliza’s hopes of becoming the mother of a prophet’s son...
Another story, attributed to LeRoi C. Snow, Eliza’s nephew, is an oral family tradition that tells of Emma knocking Eliza down the stairs with a broom, the fall resulting in a miscarriage for Eliza. . . .
Whether Eliza fell down the stairs or whether Emma pushed her or pulled her down by the hair, or whether Emma only turned her out of the house, the result seems to be documented in Eliza’s terse journal entry for February 11, 1843:
‘Took board and had my lodging removed to the residence of br. [Jonathan] Holmes.’
Eliza did not make another entry in her journal for five weeks and wrote no explanation for either the gap in her diary or her abrupt departure from Emma’s home. . . .
Several acquaintances of Eliza spoke of Emma discovering Eliza’s relationship with Joseph, leading to her departure.
The incident between Emma and Eliza forced the issue of plural marriage into the open. Emma could no longer believe that Joseph was not involved, and he could no longer deny it. Emma had not acted with violence before; now her determined opposition might show up again with unexpected force. Joseph resolutely tried to bring Emma around (Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith, by Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery, 1994, pp. 134-137).
http://www.utlm.org/newsletters/no106.htm
Joseph resolutely tried to bring Emma around (Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith, by Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery, 1994, pp. 134-137).
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Actually what the creep did was resort to abuse and death threats...
witness d&c 132 written by Joey Smith especially to try to coerce and manipulate Emma into accepting his cheatin sexual deviant ways...
No, no, NO! Nana!!
GOD was trying to help Emma along with His kind words of encouragement!!
52 And let mine handmaid, Emma Smith, areceive all those that have been given unto my servant Joseph, and who are virtuous and pure before me; and those who are not pure, and have said they were pure, shall be destroyed, saith the Lord God.
53 For I am the Lord thy God, and ye shall obey my voice; and I give unto my servant Joseph that he shall be made ruler over many things; for he hath been afaithful over a few things, and from henceforth I will strengthen him.
54 And I command mine handmaid, Emma Smith, to abide and acleave unto my servant Joseph, and to none else. But if she will not abide this commandment she shall be bdestroyed, saith the Lord; for I am the Lord thy God, and will destroy her if she abide not in my law.
55 But if she will not abide this commandment, then shall my servant Joseph do all things for her, even as he hath said; and I will bless him and multiply him and give unto him an ahundredfold in this world, of fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, houses and lands, wives and children, and crowns of beternal lives in the eternal worlds.
56 And again, verily I say, let mine handmaid aforgive my servant Joseph his trespasses; and then shall she be forgiven her trespasses, wherein she has trespassed against me; and I, the Lord thy God, will bless her, and multiply her, and make her heart to brejoice.
What "contract" might that be? I was a SM for LDS troops twice and was never aware of such a thing.
Simply put, the LDS sanctioned the move made by BSA and that is why the membership policy change occurred. LDS Scouting is a "hollow" organization because they pay membership fees for every youth of Scouting age on their rolls regardless of participation in either church or Scouting.
Too much money involved for BSA not to get the LDS's "blessings" on this move. Money that BSA doesn't have to spend supporting hundreds, if not thousands of other units and that can be spent on exorbitant salaries and idiotic ventures like "the Summit".
This is why the BSA National President, a mormon, went to SLC personally and in advance of the vote that ultimately changed the policy...
Would like a source for your claim, that is if you have one.
Or was that a lie about the “morality contract”?
Something about standing and falling comes to mind...
Hmmm...still no source for the “morality contract”...
I guess one can safely say there is no source for the so called mythological “morality contract” since it hasn’t been forthcoming for weeks now. IOW, it’s a figment.
Trying to paint LDS “scouting” as something it’s not...
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