Here it is for Britain.
Posted on 10/25/2014 11:04:54 PM PDT by Up Yours Marxists
The Mormon church has admitted that its founder was a polygamist who married a 14-year-old girl, breaking a lengthy silence about its history.
Joseph Smith, who wrote the Book of Mormon and established the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is thought to have married as many as 50 women, but for years the senior church officials did not address the subject.
But this week the organization acknowledged that the practice took place, and named Helen Mar Kimball, 'who was sealed to Joseph several months before her 15th birthday.'
Estimates have placed the total number of Smith's wives between 27 and 50, though the church said it is impossible to say for sure.
However, it suggested many of his marriages may not have involved sex, and that Smith was reluctant to adopt the practice, which was eventually banned in 1890.
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Mormon church admits founder Joseph Smith was a polygamist who married a 14-year-old - but says many of his marriages 'may not have involved sex'
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Well, 35 would wear me out. I mean, OK, 25, tops!
365 would work for me. In leap years I might have to stray outside one night.
Yet another similarity between islam and mormonism...
satan has no original thoughts.
Getting married at 14 wasn’t all that odd at the time..
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being one of 40 other wives was...
If’n you ask me the man was just greedy for women. It was not morally correct to sleep around back then so he came up with polygamy. A way to use religion in order to have women around and get laid when ever he wanted.
Okay I know I’m going to offend a lot of people by saying that but that’s my opinion on Joe. That is what I have read on him and I don’t have a high opinion of him.
in this case she was 14 he was 42
in this case she was 14 he was 42
the practice, which was eventually banned in 1890.
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no it never was banned by the mormons...
polygamy is still to this day alive and well.. in the mormons religious texts..D&C 132
Interesting, thank you.
Many believe that Mary was about 14 or 15 when she gave birth to Jesus. It was common at that time, and expected, because women had fewer choices about what to do with their adult lives then.
Thanks for that link. I was born a Hindu in India, so never heard of Mormons until I met one in the 1960’s in Chicago who was a colleague of mine in the engineering office. He was very straight laced, always polite and well dressed. Did not drink and as far as I know had only 1 wife. The only other Mormon I have personally known worked in our accounting office as comptroller. He was very friendly, with a cheerful personality and popular chap in our company of about 600 people. Our owner was Jewish, another outstanding individual. The owner knew every employee by their first name! So my impression from personally knowing just these two individuals is that Mormons are pretty good people.
I did not find answer to my question, did the Mormons ever stone women to death similar to practiced in the middle-east even today. Did the Mormons behead any non-Mormons?
It happened although it wasn’t as common as people think, since the average marriage age was in the 20s, but which wife of his was this?
Why would you want to defend a perversion and a sick cult that you are not even familiar with?
Why not find out more about their relationship to your new country before you start fighting for them?
Here it is for Britain.
That seems rather old.
I’ve known several people who were married as teenagers.
In fact the sister of an old boyfriend actually got married when she was 15, with her parents permission. They had to got to MD to do it too, and then she got married again (to the same guy) the following year in NY when she turned 16.
I knew her about 10 years after that (I think) and they were still happily married. The fellow was older than she, but I really don’t remember how much older.
It is sweet of you to say nice things about people you’ve known.
i don’t know much about Mormonism, but I don’t think they ever stoned anyone or beheaded people, but I do have the impression there was a good deal of corruption back in the day.
OK, I have that impression from reading “A Study in Scarlett” the first Sherlock Holmes book, so it’s probably a little hyperbolic.
I know that my young daughter and I used to take quite a long bus ride home every day. The only time anyone ever got up to give us seats were two Mormon missionary guys. This was in Jersey City.
Do you think that Joseph Smith was some young guy that married his young girlfriend when he added that 14 year old to his collection?
Sounds to me as though entropy12 was not defending anyone, but rather merely reporting on his own actual experiences with Mormons (which happen to have been positive), as well as asking albeit naive, but nonetheless perfectly legitimate questions.
Regards,
What about polygamy and the 14 year old did you want to inform us on?
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