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To: Edward Watson
Okay, I get that the Journal of Discourses is not official LDS doctrine.

Do you dispute what Brigham Young said in the quoted text? Do you dispute that he said it?

I hope these aren't "trick questions."

526 posted on 12/08/2007 11:02:31 AM PST by Gurn (Remember Mountain Meadows.)
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To: Gurn

I don’t doubt he said it, but surely, the man is entitled to his opinion?

Brigham Young was an incredible character - molded in the milieu of 19th century Protestant America. He believed passionately in Joseph Smith and in the rightness of the church. Who else but he could’ve convinced the thousands of dispirited Mormons to make a final trek across the plains? What made people listen to him in creating over 400 towns and cities mostly in the desert heartland? I know how incredulous I would’ve been if told I had to settle in a friggin desert when California’s Central Valley’s just on the other side of them mountains.

No, I will always give Brigham Young a pass. I understand what he was trying to convey, but there were better ways of teaching Joseph Smith’s importance.


531 posted on 12/08/2007 11:17:18 AM PST by Edward Watson (Fanatics with guns beat liberals with ideas)
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To: Gurn
I hope these aren't "trick questions."

Nope.

Just ones we won't answer.

You Gentiles just.. don't... get it; do you?

WE are the question ASKERS; not question ANSWERERS!!

--MormonDude(Did THAT satisfy you?)

624 posted on 12/08/2007 4:42:27 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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