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To: Elsie
LC. Exactly like your inappropriate attempt to portray Mormons as vampires and blood suckers, Present day Nazi's and Muslims still portray the Jews as blood suckers that eat other peoples children.

Your post is in this company.

Communications similar to yours was a contributor to the culture that directly led to the slaughter of million.

Although the Nazi government was not Christian, the German people as a whole were. Repeated exposure to vile communication like your example desensitized them until they became willing participants in the murder of people different than themselves.

If you would have had Jewish neighbors, and lived in Germany in 1935, what would you have done to them?

What would you do if they come to murder your Mormon neighbors?

Seriously, ask yourself.

From this post it makes me wonder.

26 posted on 06/13/2009 11:49:36 PM PDT by GreyMountainReagan (Liberals do not view the book 1984 as a warning but as a textbook.)
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To: GreyMountainReagan
"Present day Nazi's and some Muslims...

Sorry about leaving the "some" off.

27 posted on 06/13/2009 11:57:22 PM PDT by GreyMountainReagan (Liberals do not view the book 1984 as a warning but as a textbook.)
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To: GreyMountainReagan
From this post it makes me wonder.

Quit WONDERING and ask GOD!!

Pray for that heartwarming feeling!

Don't you MORMONism believers do that in things you have no data to analyze?


Blood Atonement and Oaths of Vengeance

In 1842, Joseph Smith received a series of revelations regarding the establishment of the Kingdom of God on earth. His goal was the establishment of a theocratic kingdom at Nauvoo, Illinois where he would be the King of Israel, and the Council of Fifty would be the governmental structure which would prepare the way for the millennial reign of Christ. As part of the elaboration for this theocratic plan, Smith presented what would come to be known as the doctrine of "Blood Atonement." The concept behind this doctrine was that people who committed particularly grievous acts against the Mormons would have to shed their blood to atone for the sins they had committed. The Mormons, especially the Danites, used the doctrine of blood atonement as justification for the depredations they committed during their war against the Missourians. Orrin Porter Rockwell also used the concept of blood atonement as justification for his assassination attempt on Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs.(52)

When Joseph Smith was killed on June 27, 1844, his assassins created the circumstances for what has become known as the "Oath of Vengeance." A corollary to the doctrine of blood atonement, the oath of vengeance was created on the first anniversary of Smith's death as a formal prayer for God's vengeance upon those who shed the blood of the prophet's. Six months later this oath of vengeance became a part of the Mormon temple endowment ceremony.(53) The specific oath stated the following:

" You and each of you do solemnly promise and vow that you will pray and never cease to pray and never cease to importune High Heaven to avenge the blood of the prophets on this nation and that you will teach this to your children and your children's children until the third and fourth generation."(54)

This oath of vengeance was used several times in 1845 as justification for killing people who had been involved in the murders of Joseph and Hyrum Smith.(55)

When the doctrines of blood atonement and oath of vengeance were dropped as part of church doctrine, fundamentalists saw this as yet another instance of the church caving in to political pressure. They still believe firmly in these doctrines. Kraut remarks that "Today, the doctrine of blood atonement is never taught and rarely mentioned. The idea of capital punishment has almost become eradicated by communists, psychologists, psychiatrists, and liberal educators. The Oath of Vengeance is no longer a part of the temple ceremony."(56)

 



 

(52)D. Michael Quinn, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1994), 110-113.

(53)Quinn, 1994, 179.

(54)Kraut, 79.

(55)Quinn, 1994, 180-181.

(56)Kraut, 78-79.


33 posted on 06/14/2009 4:33:15 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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