13 Tips For Dating A Mormon
http://www.yourtango.com/2012140881/13-tips-dating-mormon#.VEe40vnF8jE
10. Don’t Go There topics: Multiple wives and magic underwear jokes are really old, most Mormons will be polite about them, but just don’t make them. The mainstream church no longer okays polygamy, and this is a sore subject so steer clear.
It seems that one of the things the pagans liked to do in order to cement their allegiance to a god was to stand in line that proceeded up to the god and when they (men and women) would get in front of it they would lift up their clothing to reveal their naked private parts.
A concerned rabbi came up with the idea of the loin cloth to discourage the Jews from participating in the pagan practice.
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Yet another rewrite of their history.
But they don’t wear them under their clothing like Mormons do. They say that underwear is supposed to protect them from harm. Even when they shower one foot is always touching the undergarment.
You mean there really is such a thing?
I thought the Mormon magic underwear was an old wives tale.
Well at least they wear underwear. :-)
Agreed. Silly superstitions of any faith should get the same respect. None.
This is all really interesting. You know, I once was asked by FreeRepublic to take a picture of the Mormon garments off my homepage - because the “garment” is sooo specially sacred. LOL!!
Now it is the Mormons themselves posting pictures to innoculate the world to the idea of magic underwear - whatever it takes for damage control. That should be the Mormon motto. They do it every.single.time one of their practices become politically incorrect; polygamy, blacks and the priesthood, now the garment. What next....gay marraige in their “sacred” temples? Yep, that’s MY prediction. Mark my words.
Since it's not secret anymore, maybe it should get worn on the outside.
You know, like a real superhero.
No picture??
???
I thought “skullcaps” or “Yarmulke's” were worn by Jews.
A significant part of the attention, in my opinion, comes from a rather childish fascination with garments that members of the Latter-Day Saints movement consider sacred.
In addition to the press release about garments and (most of the) temple clothing, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints added three new essays to the Gospel Topics section of the lds.org website on 10/22.
They are:
Plural Marriage in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Plural Marriage in Kirtland and Nauvoo
The Manifesto and the End of Plural Marriage
The first essay may be a major re-write of a previous essay, but I can't find a corresponding essay on any wayback device.
These three essays introduce (to many) or confirm (to many) issues not generally taught by the church and facts not found on the lds.org website on 10/21. "Like what?" you ask. Smith practiced polyandry and polygamy, with 30-40 wives, or at least not since the seven-volume History of the Church was removed from the website. Examples? Smith may have had two or three children from his marriages other than to Emma. Marriages were kept secret from Emma. Others in Nauvoo practiced polyandry. Post-Manifesto polygamous marriages in the US involving names you would know. That's scarcely the tip of the iceberg contained in the new, official LDS essays, but nothing in the essays (except some of the polygamy is not polygamy explanations) is new to a historian of the Latter-Day Saints movement.
The information is no longer 'anti-Mormon propaganda'; it is stated as fact by the COJCOLDS on the lds.org website, with footnoted references to the faithful resources.
The church cites as resources books one would not have expected the church to use as resources, such as In Sacred Loneliness by Todd Compton.
The different explanations for why denial of the practice of polygamy were technically correct are interesting.
The COJCOLDS should be commended for its year+ long campaign of releasing essays on history and doctrine, even though historians and theologians may say the essays are not fully transparent nor complete.
There was no press release with the publication of these new essays; I wouldn't expect one, although some of the new essays have been accompanied by press releases.
Of the new Gospel Topics essays only the Plural Marriage in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints can be found by using the search function at lds.org or within Gospel Topics.
The new Gospel Topics essays Plural Marriage in Kirtland and Nauvoo and The Manifesto and the End of Plural Marriage can't be reached through Gospel Topics topics or the lds.org search engine. They are only accessible through links in the Plural Marriage in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints essay, so someone searching for these topics can't find them. They can only be reached by someone stumbling across them when reading another Gospel Topics essay.
There are things I would add to, clarify, or dispute within the essays, but that's me. In all, I believe the new essays are important if faithful sources of information. Thanks, lds.org.
I apologize for the length of this post. I happy to discuss this, but I have no desire to discuss theology.
