U.S. Has History of Successfully Changing Religious Tenets

Feeble Brain | 12.02.15 | Self

[abigkahuna]

Rattling around my brain for some time now has been the Manifesto of 1890 by the Church of Latter Day Saints and how it led to the eventual statehood for Utah. Basically, the Manifesto of 1890 had the church strip the polygamy tenets from their religion.

Islam in its current form is incompatible with a democratic republic. The United States has a precedence in having a religion change one of its core tenets. Sharia Law could be separated from Islam so that Islam could be compatible with the western world.

The problem with this idea though, is that the government could also use that same precedence to force Christian based religions to strip any admonitions to homosexuality, abortion, morality, etc...

Any ideas on how that particular problem could be circumvented?

[John Valentine]

Mo himself primary among them...

[TigersEye]

You’re a one note band aren’t you?

Let me know when Mormons start chopping heads off
and blowing people up.

[Elsie]

Let me know when Mormons start chopping heads off and blowing people up.

As you wish...

 

The gruesome be headings of some 40 Ute corpses in 1850, heads stacked in boxes,

and hung by their long hair from the eves of buildings at Fort Utah,

 has long been ignored, “You didn’t see the Indians beheading the Mormons.”

 

-- Historian Robert Carter

Mark William Hofmann (born December 7, 1954) is an American counterfeiter, forger and convicted murderer.

 

Widely regarded as one of the most accomplished forgers in history,

Hofmann is especially noted for his creation of documents related to the history of the Latter Day Saint movement.^[1]

When Hofmann's schemes began to unravel, he constructed bombs to murder two people in Salt Lake City, Utah.

He has been serving a life sentence at the Utah State Prison in Draper since 1988.

 

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Hofmann

 

[Elsie]

You're a one note band aren't you?

I report; the readers decide...

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[TigersEye]

I don’t give a rat’s ass about Mormons and if I did you’d be the last dipstick I’d ask about them.

[x]

Anything is possible, but you'd need to have a society that was as revolted by some religious tenet as 19th century America was by polygamy.

It's like secession or civil war: issues as divisive as slavery are rare, so secession or civil war is not going to happen.

Also, Mormonism was the dominant religion in Utah. Utah wanted into the union. The rest of the country did want Utah with polygamy.

So all the leverage was on the side of the federal government. If you don't want much from them, it's harder for them to strong-arm you.