HAPPY VALENTINES DAY
Joey Smith and Brigham Young would have bought out all the florists in their day...
Mark Twain did a funny story on an interview with Brigham Young when Young was groaning about the perils of polygamy... One wife gets something, they ALL have to get it... one kid gets something, they ALL have to have it.
Then he talks about some evil soul who slipped one of his kids a tin whistle, the natural result being that he had to buy a whistle for every kid... and oh the racket....
Look, Mormonism is weird, but ALL theology is weird to someone else.
Did you know that the Catholics believe that when they bless that wafer it actually becomes the physical flesh of Jesus Christ? (Tongue firmly in cheek here.)
I’m not saying that to snark at Catholics, I just wanted to point out that every religion that I am aware of has a few points in it’s collective closets that seem incomprehensible to outsiders.
FR used to have a pretty good LDS caucus. I guess they’ve all been banned now. I find that a bit sad.
It is fun to re-read Mark Twain’s “Roughing It” chapters on visiting Salt Lake City. He reports being given wise counsel from Brigham Young: “42 wives was a bit excessive. No man really needs more than 10 or 11.”