Brigham Young built a 9 ft solid stone fence around his properties. Was it to keep people out, or keep his wives within.
Posted on 04/15/2010 8:56:50 AM PDT by T Minus Four
A lot of us can see the handwriting on the wall.
Yep.
Brigham Young built a 9 ft solid stone fence around his properties. Was it to keep people out, or keep his wives within.
Mormon "heaven" is definitely a "gated community"....you have to buy a ticket to get into one of those "long row of sentries -- those Mormon temples -- that stand along the Wasatch -- the new Brigham City temple, new Payson temple, the new remade Ogden temple and all the others."...and you can't get to mormon "heaven" unless you have performed required rituals in one of these "sentries"
Ping
Losing members???
This entire article was a bit fanciful and awkward to me, to say the least. It sounds like satire.
I feel protect precious things is the point of the new mission statements of LDS businesses, the point for books that are picked for publication and the lessons selected for manuals.
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Translation: Uh oh, we have to keep our members from fining out the truth that in online. If we ‘protect’ them then they won’t find out the truth and leave.
Reinforcement of brainwashing and the persecution complex.
Joey Smith restored ancient barbarism but Briggy Young perfected it...
If you’re referring to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the growthrate has only ever “Lost Members” in 1839, and again for one small period in the 1850’s. Other than that of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Church has continued in growth. For 150 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints_membership_history
Cool looking fence....
I think this whole concept is very far away from Christianity. If we “believe the bible is translated correctly”, we know that not long after Jesus left this Earth, Christians were not gathered into a protective fold, but were scattered around the world.
Other than new babies born to old members, how many new members contributed to that growth ???
How many members have temple recommends ???
Definitely sounds speculative, but I don’t think the author is entirely off base either.
Find out...
Joey Smith claimed he would be the 2nd Mohammad, but it was Briggy Young who became known as the Modern Mohammad....
Yeah it’s a cool fence. It also surrounded ‘Temple Square.’ In fact it still does.
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