[Colofornian]

Why would "the cross" being "taboo" to Mormons? (keep reading)

Here's a 19-minute clip of author Michael G. Reed speaking at the 2011 Mormon Sunstone Symposium on this same subject: Banishing the Cross: Michael G. Reed

Of course, this is all in SHARP contrast to what the Bible teaches: But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. (Galatians 6:14)

From the column: The Mormon Church has an ambivalent history with Christianity’s most iconic symbol, the cross. For about 70 years, the cross was generally tolerated within the church’s cultural fabric. However, the first decades of the 20th century initiated a slow but steady expression of disapproval of the cross; a criticism influenced by LDS leaders’ willingness to publicly declare the Roman Catholic Church as the “church of the devil” described in LDS scripture. “Banishing the Cross: The Emergence of a Mormon Taboo,” (John Whitmer Books) by Michael G. Reed, is a slim but valuable volume on the history of the Mormons’ relationship with the cross. As Reed notes, the Mormon Church was founded during an era of widespread Protestant hostility to the cross, a hostility that was due to that era’s wariness of Catholicism.

Interesting concession by Doug Gibson, a Mormon, citing Reed, about both Mormon leaders' hyped-up anti-Catholicism as well as Mormon treatment of the cross as if they were...well, vampires, trying to avoid the shadow of the cross falling upon them!

[Colofornian]

From the Gibson column: ...as Reed notes, criticism of the cross started to creep more into the Mormon culture as a the 20th century began. Reed cites statements from leading Mormons, including then-apostle Moses Thatcher, that connected the cross to anti-Catholicism. Around 1915, a proposal in the Salt Lake area to put a cross on Ensign Peak received significant opposition, one that initially surprised LDS supporters. The eventual failure to place a memorial cross at Ensign Peak is cast — correctly by Reed — as a dispute between church leaders...As Reed notes, Joseph Fielding Smith wrote, “To bow down before a cross or to look upon it as an emblem to be revered because of the fact that our Savior died upon a cross is repugnant…” The more blunt McConkie described the Roman Catholic Church as “being ‘most abominable above all other churches,’” writes Reed.

Joseph Fielding Smith became an Lds head "prophet"; and Bruce McConkie was an Lds "apostle."

[Colofornian]

Few Mormons wear crosses, depicting their aversion to it. For more on this, see:

* No-Cross Protocol ["New" Mormon tradition]

* Sunstone speaker attempts to explain LDS 'aversion' to cross [published by Mormon church owned Mormon Times]

[ROCKLOBSTER]

What about cross-dressing?

[Zakeet]

Why don't Mormon temples have crosses on them?

For the same reason that Buddhist temples don't have crosses on them.

[Elsie]

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[autumnraine]

When I was 12, was wearing a cross necklace. Some guy (not sure if he was Mormon or what) asked me why I didn’t just wear a little electric chair around my neck.

I told him that Jesus didn’t die in the electric chair. He just pursed his lips and walked away.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Substitution of magic underoos for the Biblical symbol of the Sacred Cross our Savior died on placemarker.

[SoConPubbie]

Banishing the Cross: The Emergence of a Mormon Taboo,” (John Whitmer Books) by Michael G. Reed, is a slim but valuable volume on the history of the Mormons’ relationship with the cross. As Reed notes, the Mormon Church was founded during an era of widespread Protestant hostility to the cross, a hostility that was due to that era’s wariness of Catholicism.

Good luck finding any historical proof to support this bald-faced lie.

[Tennessee Nana]

As Reed notes, the Mormon Church was founded during an era of widespread Protestant hostility to the cross,
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What a lying piece of crap this Mormon guy is

[Tennessee Nana]

That interest is a key reason that the symbol of the cross traveled with the saints to Utah
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and yet shortly after the Mormons arriveed in Utah, theocratic dictator Brigham Young had a cross over the makeshift graves of Christiaqns he had murdered torn down ..

Hardly the act of somneone who believed in and respected the Cross...

As Paul said “The preaching of ther cross is foolishness to those who are persishing”

Non-Christian Brigham Young was perishing then when he scorned the Cross of the LORD Jesus Christ in 1857 and he was still perishing when he died 20 years later and went to Hell for his unbelief and rejection of Jesus...