If all you believe about Joseph Smith is correct then the Church he founded is even more of a miracle. Can you find anything good about people who give constant service to the poor and unfortunate throughout the world. When major disasters happen anywhere in the world the Mormons are usually the first to arrive with food, bedding, and other needed supplies. We are prepared with over 100 warehouses and canneries in the U.S. Most stakes (diocese)have a Church farm, all run by volunteers. Women in many local wards will make 400 quilts, birthing kits, hygiene kits, etc; each year, on an ongoing basis. Thousands of wheel chairs have been donated throughout the world. Hundreds of water wells have been dug in Africa. We had a fast day for starving Ethopia some years ago,6 million dollars was raised in one day. The Church produces over 20,000 tons of Atmit (an enriched cereal) for the very young and very old in Ethopia every year and delivers it No Charge. Members fast the first Sunday of each month and the money is used for the poor of the world. We have a Perpetual Education fund, 38,000 worthy young men and women in underdeveloped countries have received education and training thus far, lifting them out of grinding poverty. Thousands more will follow this new program.These members, as they can, payback the monies they receive from member contributions to keep the program growing.
We are small, about 3 million families. If every Christian Church throughout the world would have a monthly “Fast”day and contribute that money to the poor we could wipe out poverty in the world.We have no salaried people at the local level, this allows us to build chapels and temples all over the world that are paid for when comleted.
I would invite you to contact the local LDS church, visit our canneries and farms, visit The Bishops storehouse where the poor get free food as needed.
All this, and more comes from the teachings of Ol Joe Smith.
I missed a couple of appropriate scriptures:
Luke 10:30,33,36,37 The Samartian and the man on his
way to Jericho. The Savior used the hated Samaritan as an example and said, “Go and do thou likewise”
I would suggest to you: Get rid of the hate and follow The Savior.
If all you believe about Joseph Smith is correct then the Church he founded is even more of a miracle.
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But for this first sentence...
Joey Smith hadf a con going that made him the equivilant of one million dollars when he got to Nauvoo, IL...
Some misguided fool DONATED aq lot of land to his followers...
But Joey smith, ever the thief on the make...SOLD the lots to his followers instead...
Oh, yes, he had “miraculous” success in his life...
Let’s see the “miracles”...
1. He had a “miracle” idea when he was about 25 to say that an angel ...no let’s make it a god...noooooooo two gods would be better...visited him back when he was 17...noooo 16,...noo, wait 15...oh shoot it was 14...yes 14...and told him ...he was ahh well doin alright...but everyone else was ...wrong ...yeah bad...no...abomnible...to start his own new scam...ah...religion...Jersus had failed...he would pick up the slack and succeed where Jesus had failed...He would be president of the United States and king of the world..a “miracle”...
2. He had women to bed ...If they said no he had “miraculous” enticements...angels with flaming swords, tickets to the mormon after life for her family, etc...
3. He had bank scams...and a fast horse to “miraculously” get out of town when he was fined $1,000 1838...
4. He had “miraculous” stones to put inh his hat...and read “reformed Egyptian”...a miracle since nobody before or since has ever read or spoken such a ;anguage...
5. He had a “miracle” bar in which he sold “miracle” liquer..that enabled he and his followers to have “miracle” visions...those pink elephants and yellow warthogs can dance up quite a “church” experience...
6. He had a “miracle” vigilantee group of cutthroats he called the Avenging Angels or Danites that roamed far and wide murdering and robbing people Joey Smith didnt like...
7. He had a “miracle” day when he joined the Masonic lodge and went from applicant to top dog in one day...
8. He had a “miracle” inspiration and incorporated the masonic practices into his homemade scam “religion”..whatever works...
9. Finally, he had a “miracle” death...every “hero” goes out with a bang...Joey Smith committed suicide by Masons who were disgusted with the Miracle Man and his criminal ways..and his betrayal of their secrets and his misuse of their practices..by getting liquered up and shootin his way out of jail...
10. Another miracle would be that the mormon god didnt listen to joey Smith when he said that he “prophecied” that he would live to 80, that there were Quakers living on the moon, that the mormon god lived on a planet called Kolob, that the only way to go to the mormon after life was to have sex with lots of very young girls, that Jesus was coming back in the late 1800s...