To: DanielLongo
By their fruits ye shall know them ... here's Zakeet's list of Smithian fruits ...A supposed prophet, Joseph Smith, who taught:
- That Jesus and Satan are brothers, that God had incestuous relations with His daughter (Mary), and that Christian pastors are "dimwitted hirelings of Satan
- That God is a polygamous celestial stud married to our Heavenly Mother
- Of Kolob and of other worlds named Planet Oblish and Planet Enish-go-on-dosh ruled by a governing power through the medium of Kli-flos-is-es, or Hah-ko-kau-beam
- Of sacred scriptures based on pagan works such as prayers to Egyptian gods for dead spirits
which were supposedly translated using occult devices such as peep stones
- Of prominent display of Satanic symbols such as pentagrams, baphomets, earth stones, and saturn stones on his churches' religious buildings and literature
- Of the wearing a fig leaf apron in temple ceremonies to symbolize Satans power and priesthoods
- Of having Lucifer teach Mormon church doctrine in the temple ceremony
- Of portraying Satan as the god of this world in Mormon rites and ceremonies
- Of offering prayers to the devil Oh God, hear the words of my mouth
- Of praising Satan by chanting Hebrew words in the temple ceremony whose translation is Marvelous Lucifer
- That husbands can resurrect their wives from the grave
- Of having special grips and clasps to tell ghosts from angels and the devil
- Of practicing baptism for the dead
- Of wearing magic underwear to protect from physical harm with symbols so sacred that they must be cut out and buried and the garment burned when it wears out
- That the Ten Lost Tribes and the apostle John will be discovered living in cement houses in a tropical land adjacent to the North Pole separated by a high mountain range
- That men about six feet tall, dressed like Quakers, will be discovered dwelling on the moon where they live for about 1,000 years
- That science will prove the earth has knobs on each end
- That he was commanded by god to retranslate the Bible because the existing translations contained errors eventually devising an Inspired Revision completed in 1833 - which was rejected by his church who still uses the King James Version
- That his followers should burdened by a complex series of regulations which determine their progression as gods of their own planets - complete with a harem of goddess wives
- That he was greater than Jesus
230 posted on
08/18/2008 7:34:02 AM PDT by
MHGinTN
(Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
To: MHGinTN
Gold plates huh?
We need to try that the next time we need volunteers for Children’s Church. “Oh look Mrs Nelson, you are on this gold plate marked Volunteers for Children’s Church”.
232 posted on
08/18/2008 7:49:13 AM PDT by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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