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Without reading every reply, Beck bluntly said he became a Mormon so he could have sex with the "hot chick" who became his wife. She wouldn't sleep with him unless they were married and she wouldn't marry him unless he converted. I don't think he belonged to any religion at that point, and he probably realized he needed to get straightened out. From his perspective he no doubt thought he was killing 2 birds with 1 stone.

I have no idea what his view are on the BOM. He may think "I don't know if this is actual, historical truth or not, but I like everything I see in the church, etc."

If you read the BOM and go by that alone, you will find little that differs from Christianity. I'll bet most, if not all, what you find objectionable in the LDS religion can not be found in the BOM. In fact, it may be contradicted by the BOM.

I've often accused LDS missionairies of playing a "bait-and-switch" game, because they push the BOM to get you into the LDS church. Often, it's not until long after you've been baptized into the LDS Church, that you learn about more "advanced" teachings of theirs. They would say it is "milk before meat".

Anyway, you don't know exactly how Beck felt about the LDS Church when he married his wife or what he actually believes now since he doesn't really talk about it in public.

I'm sure if you exposed all of your beliefs to us, some could find fault in them.

I'm sure if you exposed all of your beliefs to us, some could find fault in them.

"...we are the only people that know how to save our progenitors, how to save ourselves, and how to save our posterity in the celestial kingdom of God;...we in fact are the saviours of the world..."

--Lds Prophet John Taylor,

Journal of Discourses, vol.6, p.163

I'm sure if you exposed all of your beliefs to us, some could find fault in them.

"We know something about our progenitors, and God has taught us how to be saviors for them by being baptized for them in the flesh, that they may live according to God in the Spirit."

--LDS Prophet John Taylor,

Journal of Discourses, Vol. 14, 3/20/1870 (March 20,1870)