Posted on 05/09/2015 12:02:16 PM PDT by Colofornian
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Nearly 50 years after Mormons opened small churches here converting Buddhists, animists and other Thais, they have now announced plans to construct their first big temple in Thailand, enabling their families to be "sealed" together for eternity, posthumous weddings for dead ancestors and other "highest sacraments."
(Excerpt) Read more at scoop.co.nz ...
(Note: Lds also seal living wives “for eternity” ...these stats below reflect only Lds temple ritual acts aimed at the dead when performed)
| During Years | Wives Sealed | Accumulative # of Wives Sealed |
| 1842-1846 | 369 | 369 |
| 1846-1884 | 37,715 | 38,084 |
| 1877-1898 | 142,635 | 180,719 |
| 1899-1912 | 122,673 | 303,392 |
| 1913-1930 | 425,308 | 728.700 |
| 1931-1940 | 1,547,291 | 2,275,991 |
| 1941-1945 | 457,860 | 2,733,851 |
| 1946-1950 | 572,655 | 3,306,506 |
| 1951-1955 | 832,200 | 4,138,706 |
| 1956-1960 | 1,356,070 | 5,494,776 |
| 1961-1965 | 934,931 | 6,429,707 |
| 1966-1970 | 902,802 | 7,332,509 |
Source: The Living Church by Richard O. Cowan and Wilson K. Andersen, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, 1974, p. 397
So beyond the millions of proxy baptisms for the dead, and ritual dead children sealed (or adopted) in Mormon temples, by 1970 over 7 million deceased wives were “sealed” in Mormon temples...
Based on extrapolation since 1970...this number probably went over 8 million by 1975; about 9 million by 1980; and probably rose over a million every five years since...and is likely between 16 million and 20 million now as a low estimate.
Richard O. Cowan also wrote History of Latter-day Saint Temples from 1831-1990...exact temple figures from 1971-1985 may be available there.
"On the next day, 29 May 1843, four other sets of sealings took place. First, Hyrum Smith, Jerusha Barden and Mary Fielding Smith were sealed for time and eternity (Mary acted as proxy for the deceased Jerusha). Second, Brigham Young, Miriam Works, and Mary Ann Angell were sealed for time and eternity by Hyrum Smith (Mary Ann acted as proxy for Miriam, who was dead). Third, Willard and Jennetta Richards were sealed. Lastly, Mercy Rachel Fielding was sealed to her deceased husband, Robert B. Thompson."
Source: Page 30 of JOSEPH SMITH'S INTRODUCTION OF TEMPLE ORDINANCES AND THE 1844 MORMON SUCCESSION QUESTION A Thesis Presented to the Department of History Brigham Young University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts c Andrew F. Ehat 1981 by Andrew F. Ehat December 1982
On the next page of that BYU student master's thesis, its author notes the Mormon doctrine of eternal polygamy for those who have been sealed to more than one spouse "for eternity":
"Not all persons would infer from the doctrine of eternal marriage the necessity of [65] plural marriage as did Hyrum Smith. But as he later said, the death of his first wife, Jerusha, and his marriage to Mary Fielding made plural marriage an unavoidable corollary to the doctrine of eternal marriage." (p. 31)
The thesis revisits this later to show how Joseph Smith tried to hide plural marriage:
"Therefore each person involved in the activities of 29 May 1843 were being sealed to their living and dead "nonplural" spouses. Continuing to take the names in reverse order, let us now consider the marriages performed on 28 May 1843. The only plural wife ever sealed to James Adams on the temple and other records (Rosena R. Adams) was sealed to him on 11 July 1343. Finally, Joseph Smith claimed that he never taught the doctrine of plural marriage in a meeting of the "highest [sic] anointed in the Church in private" (i.e. the endowment council) ("[Nauvoo] City Council Minutes," 10 June 1844, p. 25, Church Archives). That he taught the "anointed" these concepts outside these meetings is undeniable; however, he apparently decided early on not to teach plural marriage in endowment council meetings (which the 28/29 May 1843 meetings were) so he could have such a rhetorical "denial" when pressed closely about the practice of plural marriage in the Church." (same source as above link, pp. 126-127)
Is that legal?
This should not be a surprise. After all the dead do vote democrat.
Well, perhaps the Mormons could get temple upticks in the number of "wives sealings for the dead" each November and each Primary election season if they offered ensuing honeymoon vacation packages to coincide with those elections.
They don’t care.
Today, some American evangelical Christians haunt Bangkok's neon-lit bars at night, paying cash to rent bikini-clad prostitutes for the evening.
That sure sounds naughty.
Is Rita Hayworth still posthumously available? Because as a resperating Obamerican I demand the dignity of a nontraditional marriage.
Even Jimmy Swaggert was crushed in his spirit when he realized that if he had God in him he would not have been comfy doing the things he did. Maybe, just maybe, Jimmy can be born again now that he has realized how lost he was while reveling in such sin. Kind of like Mormons, based on smithianism are not real Christians, just pretenders, they can be born again, but it will cause Mormonism to not taste so good anymore.
Andrew Marvell: “the grave’s a fine and private place, but none...do there embrace.”
Unless people dig up corpses out of the ground, why should I care?
“There is neither marriage nor giving in marriage in the next world but they are as angels...”-Jesus of Nazareth
could someone PLEASE SEAL Baraq Obama???
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Hes already been sealed...
He was sealed to his mother Stanley Ann Dunham in 2008 after she was dead dunked into Mormonism..
The long dead atheist Stan Ann was dead dunked in June 2008 and given all the endowments, high honors etc of Mormonism and then temple married to the already dead Barak Obama Sr,
she was then sealed to her children Barak and his sister making them Mormons also..
so we now have our first high priest temple Mormon president..
did ya vote for Obama ??? No ??? Why not ???
It was because hes a Mormon wasn’t it ??? Eh ??? Admit it ...
(And I'm sure that's so from about every religious stripe out there)
What I didn't know is that paying customers flash their religious badges to such bar patrons before utilizing such services. Hence, the identification of only a single religious patronage there is rather suspect. The author's from San Francisco, so, I take it there's an agenda to push on that.
Mormons' Posthumous Weddings & "Highest Sacraments" [the dead get married in Lds temples]Not if they were gay, I'll bet.
So.. can I marry some dead old woman and score some money from it?
Is there a list?
tickle version, here
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