Good information
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In before the hateful comments from cultists...
Nice work
Has any Mormon ever be able to refute anything you have posted?
“Masonic influences in temple ceremony after Joseph Smith rec’d a Mason’s degree March 16, 1842”
My understanding is he was a clandestinely made mason, not a mason from a recognized lodge. But frankly, if Christian churches in general were more like lodge, they’d be a lot better off.
As a Christian and a non-Mormon, I fail to see what your purpose is in denigrating people of faith whose mode of worship differs from yours...the only Mormons I have ever known were kind, generous people with admirable values who spent more time in church than most of the rest of us spend in bars...what axe do you have to grind here? Is this the California mindset you brought to Colorado? No wonder the Golden State abhors such immigrants.
“many false spirits were introduced, many strange visions were seen, and wild, enthusiastic notions were entertained; men ran out doors under the influence of this spirit, and some of them got upon the stumps of trees and shouted, and all kinds of extravagances were entered into by them; one man pursued a ball that he said he saw flying in the air, until he came to a precipice, when he jumped into the top of a tree, which saved his life; and many ridiculous things were entered into...”
This sounds a bit like datura intoxication.
This is important work, Colofornian. Thanks for posting. What we believe matters!