The lds-org denies that Jesus is the Creator, that everything was created THROUGH Him, BY Him and FOR Him.
They deny that Jesus created even the angels out of nothing.
They do NOT teach the truth about Jesus.
Both Mormon communism & polygamy were at its height in the 1880s...These were separate social experimentations -- as most Utah communities then were not into communism (called "the United Order"); but Lds leaders everywhere were encouraged to take additional wives.
Why did even recent Mormon writers call the Mormon "United Order" communism -- having influenced Soviet Union's adoption of communism? Read post #3 @ this thread for the answer: Mitt Romney mirrors his Mormon church [Lds writer says Romney flip-flops 'cause Lds church has/does]
Joseph Smith prophesied about Mormon socialism...Lds "prophets" Brigham Young, John Taylor & Lorenzo Snow implemented it (Snow more when he was a general authority -- before he took over as "prophet"). Taylor actually didn't like it, but took it over from Young.
Smith's prophesies about the United Ordere says it was to be "everlasting"...not the first time Mormons have twisted that word...[Lds leaders turned descriptions of "everlasting" hell into a temporary spirit prison]. You can google Lds "scriptures" on the United Order as "everlasting"...See: Lds Doctrines & Covenants 82:18-19 and 104:1, 48, 53.
From the article: The Church has diversified into commercial enterprises, owning television and radio stations, universities, farms, banks and, most recently, retail. Last month, the Church opened City Creek Mall, a stunning billion-dollar downtown renovation in Salt Lake City...
Lds, Inc. owns much of the land near DisneyWorld -- for commercial purposes:
* LDS Inc. owns .7% of Florida
* LDS Church ranch making big impact in Florida [From Mormon church-owned KSL.com]
* LDS Church ranch making big impact in Florida [From FR thread of KSL article]
Capitalist bastards!!
When will the Workers of the world throw off the shackles of their proletariat & the bugeoisee masters? How many more Mormon success stories must we endure?
The Feds were threatening the Mormon church with disincorporation if they didn't yield on polygamy.
So Publicly the Mormon church yielded; privately, no. They retained polygamous families. And over the next 20 years (1890-1910), at least 250 additional polygamous unions were solemnized by Lds leaders...most in the 1890-1903 time frame.
To show you how much contempt grassroots Mormons treated the so-called "abandonment of polygamy" by Wilford Woodruff, B.H. Roberts had taken a THIRD simultaneous wife by around 1893 -- three years after Woodruff's manifesto -- and when Roberts ran for Congress in 1898, he won!
Townhall.com... what used to be a decent conservative Web site, ran an article claiming the Senator Smoot hearings to be a "persecution" of Mormons in the early 1900s when the Senate took four years to seat Sen. Smoot from utah over concerns re: polygamy. What the Townhall article failed to mention was the B. H. Roberts case in 1898.
Roberts, the early top Lds historian and a General Authority of the church, earlier was elected to Congress in 1898...but Congress wouldn't seat him because of his three-wives.
You see...in 1856 the fledgling Republican party said it would take on the "twin relics of Barbarism" -- slavery and polygamy -- and made good on its social issues promises.
It actually took longer to fully address polygamy than slavery (tho the economic effects of slavery were generational). In 1898, grassroots America sent 28 banners with 7 million signatures to Congress asking Congress to not seat polygamous Roberts. Congress sent Roberts home.
Townhall.com ignored the Republican party's commitment to root out polygamy when it ran the pro-Romney piece over the weekend. Shame on such an apologist piece for Mormonism!!!
The lds-org denies that Jesus is the Creator, that everything was created THROUGH Him, BY Him and FOR Him.
They deny that Jesus created even the angels out of nothing.
They do NOT teach the truth about Jesus.
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It’s not a church, it’s a business club.