Posted on 04/08/2008 7:12:23 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Yes they are mormons who follow all of the teachings of the false prophet Joseph Smith
Polygamy and all
It should come out in an investigation. You can bet the women never saw a dollar of that money.
They don't.
There are, on the other hand, Mormon offshoots.
According to Wikipedia, there’s a Pentecostal Church of the Firstborn, and two Mormon offshoots separated in time by that name. Is there a link between them?
No doubt we are going to find they were selling kids to pedophiles, etc. Those that don’t go along end up in unmarked graves out in the desert.
Again, this group was NEVER Mormon. They’ve borrowed the LDS name ~ that’s all.
To the average person on the street … LDS is LDS, just like all Babtist as just the same (Westboro Baptist Church is typical of all Baptist churches). ;-)
True, a story about one of the little towns where this group came from was on the news a few years back, it said something like 60 to 70 % of the towns population was on one kind of government assistance are the other.
In several failed or nearly failed efforts to Christianize the Polar Peoples and drag them away from shamanism the missionaries managed to stimulate the creation of something else.
The Apostolic Charismatic Church of the First Born is definitely Pentecostal and may well be the original "source" of that entire movement, and some of them have drifted into a much more orthodox Christian pattern. There are still fringe COTFB groups heavy into strange stuff ~ e.g. peyote instead of the use of amanita muscaria.
Not all of 'em are into polygamy, or the suppression of woman. A more normal course of simple serial polygamy is easily found in many congregations. E.g. Billy Blythe was married 5 times. Bill Clinton's mom was married 5 times. Old David Koresh was married 20 times, or so, some serial, some in polygamy.
These groups don't have a central command like the Roman Catholics, so there's a lot of variation out there ~ less in Faith Assembly in the East of course. It's almost tame.
I know a gentleman who "escaped" with his mother from something very similar to this. He was quite young, but I guess she feared for his life ~ that he'd become just another surplus male. They can die early. Most are simply turned loose in a town somewhere and forgotten.
What I don't care for is that these guys don't take their children to see doctors for anything short of setting a broken bone. Just about all the "faith healers let kid die" stories are about COTFB congregations.
They are really different!
I’m glad you guys are showing up then because there are many posts of rationales and excuses around here, the last couple of days. You aren’t going to find much Baptist support of Westboro. (no smile)
Yes, we did.
I’ve been watching out for the COTFB since I was in the 6th grade.
The state invaded. No one got killed.
The top man is entirely too close with his daughters.
Perversion is as perversion does. ;-)
***Old David Koresh was married 20 times***
He was of the Branch Davidian version of the Seventh-day Adventists.
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