No tithing, no temple recommend.
No temple recommend, no wedding ceremony attendance.
No temple recommend, no eligibility to automatically live with your family forever on your own planet.
No temple recommend, no future godhood status for you.
No temple recommend, no living with Heavenly Father forever...you will be subjugated to a lower sphere outside of His presence...[This means, most Mormons aren't even apparently planning for eternal life with God -- kind of like Jehovah's Witnesses as most just hope for living in paradise...tho JWs interpret that as "earth"...]
This means that given that perhaps only 20% of Mormons even have such temple recommends! And the economy has been putting more pressure on wannabe tithers.
The "temple recommend" is the all-controlling caste system and status symbol juncture of the Mormon church. Like the Mormon missionary system, it fuels the Lds, Inc. dozens-of-billion $ coffers. [The missionary system does it by way of turning out higher lifelong tithers...IOW, except for select mission areas, the costs of funding Lds missionary work isn't really worth the 5 or so -- or less -- converts an average missionary might land during his two years...as others have noted, it proves to be a "win-win" situation for Lds Inc. because families fund their children's missionary work...and it churns out more tithers when compared to those who didn't serve missions].
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Ah, eternal marriage...LdsISM has to play down all those passages in the Bible about the Lamb of God being the Bridegroom and the Church being the bride in order to emphasize that...
...man-woman eternal marriage or...
...man-woman-woman "eternal marriage" or...
...man-man-woman "eternal marriage" or even group "marriages" (a combo of the above) are eternal.
Now, given that the Lds church has been a sharp defender of "man-woman" marriage in a couple of California initiatives, what do I mean by "man-woman-woman eternal marriage" or even "man-man-woman eternal marriage" when it comes to Mormons?
Well, in 1998 the Mormon church published its LDS “Church Handbook of Instructions” for LDS bishops. On p. 73, we note:
“A deceased woman may be sealed to ALL men to whom she was legally married during her life.”
“Sealed” in this case = sealed for all eternity to her multiple husbands, rendering her -- were marriage to actually be eternal -- a polyandrous wife forever!
Now a fuller context of this statement reads:
“A living woman may be sealed to only one husband. If she is sealed to a husband and later divorced, she must receive a cancellation of that sealing from the First Presidency before she may be sealed to another man in her lifetime and later: A deceased woman may be sealed to ALL men to whom she was legally married during her life.” (Source of LDS "Church Handbook of Instructions," p. 73 of the 1998 edition, as cited by poster Paridel @ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2004551/posts?q=1&;page=283)
Therefore, as you can see, LDS contemporary practices embraces eternal polyandry (a woman sleeping with multiple husbands), not just eternal polygamy. At least it does for its dead...
And...given Lds, Inc.'s propensity of "identity theft" of a personal's religious beliefs during life (post-death conversion via Mormon necrobaptisms)...
...Is it any wonder that a church would also steal a deceased woman's marital status post-death as well...a sort of enforced "conversion" from strict monogamy to polyandry!
Anyway, it’s the bold-faced line above coupled with historical examples that shows contemporary Mormonism to be a polyandrist religion when it comes to eternal marital relationships. (We are not only talking about historical sealings. We are talking about current rituals sanctioned by the church.) And if Lds, Inc. says a deceased woman can be sealed to multiple husbands...and if one of those husbands is sealed to multiple wives...wow! we're talking about a real swinging Mormon celestial kingdom!
'Cause -- also current practice: The LDS Church, as mentioned above, still allows a husband to be sealed in its temple to multiple wives (but only one "on-this-earth" wife at a time). In these cases, we're talking about men who have been serially married to multiple women--none at the same time on earth--but whom would be part of a heavenly harem if he makes it to the celestial kingdom. If the Mormon church was serious about "eradicating" future polygamy, it'd ban the temple ritual for eternal sealings for a second or third wife. It doesn't. Even some of the Lds general authorities have been sealed to more than one wife for eternity, having become remarried widowers. (Some of you didn't know the Mormon church still embraces eternal polygamists, did you?)
So when Mormons publicly "eschew" polygamy, keep their "private" reservations they've got lined up in mind. What they really mean is that polygamy is no longer for this colony (earth) -- only for colonies like Kolob. And even this earth, well, Lds "apostle" Bruce McConkie said another polygamous-era dispensation is acomin' when the Mormon Jesus returns...per his book, Mormon Doctrine.
Therefore, if Lds "trash talk" TV shows like "Big Love" -- or, if they trash talk fundamentalist polygamous MORMONS keep in mind that the mainstream MORMON church apparently views itself as the polygamous “feeder system” for eternal "Big Love" family life!
Well, at this rate of Internet exposure, perhaps the the Mormon church should shift its "offensive" strategy -- almost 52,000 mishies -- to a "defensive" public-relations spin maneuvering.
Having a dress code isn’t in itself is a bad thing, but the LDS take it to extremes even down to how many pairs of earrings a woman can wear, then it is no longer just a dress code, it is a measure of control.
And the LDS use the need for a temple recommend as a measure of control, it hangs their salvation on if they are do whatever they are told by their leaders.
Do a Google search on Joseph Smith...
The man had a rap sheet for swindles, fraud schemes, and confidence games a mile long.
If I ever get married I couldn’t care less what she wears. It’s her day and I am just there for ride.
Hopefully her gown will be white and I don’t care if it’s off the Macy’s or Couture off Madison Avenue.
In 1984 my daughter was insistent that we go to the Temple for her marriage. Forget that her non Mormon grand parents and non Mormon friends couldn’t attend.(She too has now left the church)
So I lied to the bishop and the stake president as I knew they would not reject me based on the fact that I knew something about both of them that could be damaging, having been in business in that community. I would certainly not blackmail anybody, however they were both crooks.
Point is, the entire process is a shallow “look at me how righteous I am” process. On Sunday mornings the dummies dress up in their finery and pretend how religious they are. And during the week they lie, cheat and steal in their businesses.
Glad to be an anti, an apostate, an ex and an INMAN.
The Mormon Temple - Not so sacred secrets revealed
http://www.salamandersociety.com/temple/
“You should groom yourself and clothe yourself in such a way that you would feel comfortable should your Host appear,”
I’m more comfortable in the presence of the lord wearing sandals and shorts.
bottom line- ya’ pay to play that’s how i see it with Mormonism, no matter how you dress it up or down the bottom line is The Almighty Dollar
Depends on if they look like the girls on the beach at Ipanema or else if they look like the inner city Atlanta 5th generation welfare recipients. In the first case, a single strand of floss is called for; in the second, an equivalent to the burqua is more than appropriate...
Magical undergarments ping.
I am guessing that a Mormon bride’s dress looks like the cotton printed dresses that you see in pictures, only white and long. Then there would be the hair style! BARF!
How did this strange look ever become the accepted standard of dress for Mormon women? Bless their hearts!
I hope that one of you Mormons will tell me that your women are not still required to look like the pictures I have seen.