“In fairness to mormonism, I don’t think its doctrine states that mormons will be equal to God, but that they will be rewarded for their mormon practice, marriage in temple, good works, etc. with becoming gods in their own right, creating life, populating and ruling over their own planetary dominions and so on.”
What they actually think is quite murky, because some of their president/prophets thought Adam was a God and there was a separate triumverate at creation, separate from the normal trinity. And since the big God Fella is himself evolved from something lesser and has his many wives near Kolob, it looks to me like some bubbling multiverse where you don’t know what is going on.
But that’s my problem from experience with Mormons in power, they can jump track and believe they are numero uno on this planet.
“...because some of their president/prophets thought Adam was a God...”
I thought we dealt with this last week? The so-called “Adam-God Theory” is a misrepresentation, and is not LDS doctrine. It is based on a pretty liberal interpretation of a quote from Brigham Young - an interpretation that flies in the face of what he taught on many other occasions, suggesting to experts that he misspoke and/or was mistranscribed.
Please, when you receive information that your assertions are incorrect, take that information into account before spreading them again.
It's Chinese baseball, FC.
In Chinese baseball, you can keep moving the bases.
Joseph Smith and Brigham Young were 19th century Chinese baseball players.
You just never knew what was going to come out of their mouths from one day to the next. It could be as outlandish as they wanted it to be and they knew that they could pull it off, because Utah was still fairly isolated and their converts were taught to obey above all else. Neither Smith nor Young would tolerate dissension.
But then Utah got statehood and people were flowing in. Utah was not so isolated anymore and was subject to a lot more outside scrutiny. By 1902 or so, President Joseph Fielding Smith realized that doctrines like Adam-God could no longer be openly preached and so they weren't, they were scrubbed from things like the Lecture at the Veil, etc. He also realized that the polygamy thing had to be scrubbed, too, and he came out very forcefully against it around (I think) 1904. By the end of WWI, few mormons were openly practicing it.
It is so tedious being told what people think we believe.