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On Despising Mormon Polygamy
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| October 28, 2014
| Gina Colvin
Posted on 11/05/2014 7:40:17 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
In before accusations of hate!
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posted on
11/05/2014 7:41:53 PM PST
by
aMorePerfectUnion
( "I didn't leave the Central Oligarchy Party. It left me." - Ronaldus Maximus)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I had a personal tour of the RLDS in Illinois at Nauvoo. Very interesting. Also saw the jail where Joseph Smith Jr. was kept and the window he jumped from when shot. The people at both places were very friendly and welcoming. Nice folks but .....
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posted on
11/05/2014 7:43:20 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
(I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
To: SkyDancer
I’ve been to the Temple in Independence, Missouri. Quite a building.
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posted on
11/05/2014 7:44:25 PM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
To: SkyDancer
"Nice folks but ....."...But loaded to the gills with whacky ideas.
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posted on
11/05/2014 7:45:13 PM PST
by
Wyrd bið ful aræd
(Asperges me, Domine, hyssopo et mundabor, Lavabis me, et super nivem dealbabor.)
To: Wyrd bið ful aræd
Yep. The store had all kinds of JS memorabilia for sale. The whole episode so to speak was quite interesting, history and all that. Got to see JS grave site.
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posted on
11/05/2014 7:47:07 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
(I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Polygamy is actually an Old Testament practice, which was never challenged in the New Testament.
Women and men are free to do as they like, which is less demeaning than demanding that they conform to some other person’s arbitrary societal expectations. Whatever that may be, it is not freedom.
(Mormons are still not playing with a full deck of cards, but not for this.)
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posted on
11/05/2014 7:48:22 PM PST
by
SteveH
(First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I find it a repellent, dehumanizing practice that reduced females to brood mares and turned Utah into a pious stud farm. Furthermore it has historically quashed some of my enthusiasm for a happy afterlife, particularly in contexts when Ive been told that my husband will be required to pick up further wives as a matter of eternal course. There hasnt been once in my 39 years of being a Mormon that I have ever had the slightest modicum of spiritual feeling for the practice other than abhorrence. So there is absolutely nothing the church can say, whether through essays, declarations or apologetics that will sway me on the matter. I see it as little other than a form of spiritual abuse to maintain a discourse of high transcendent religious motivation around the character of Joseph Smith when he was, at least in this respect, a womanizing, seducing, Lothario who coopted God in order validate his particular feminine tastes. So LDS.org doesnt get a pass from me for their unpunctual candor. Good on them for finally broaching a tricky topic and publically admitting Josephs theological inventiveness that shaped several generations of Mormon discourse, but it doesnt go far enough. Perhaps its time to drop the righteous polygamy story entirely; along with everything else that has adhered to it over the years. Related threads:
Essay: Mormon founder had teen bride during early days of faith when polygamy was practiced
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posted on
11/05/2014 7:48:24 PM PST
by
Alex Murphy
("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The Nauvoo site was interesting as well. Some of the original building still standing. I had a personal tour guide. Showed rooms where JS was and where he planned the attack of the newspaper office next town over and the basement hideout he had ... the room where all this happened kinda sent chills up my spine to think I was in the same room as he was ....
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posted on
11/05/2014 7:49:33 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
(I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
To: SkyDancer
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posted on
11/05/2014 7:51:06 PM PST
by
svcw
(Not 'hope and change' but 'dopes in chains')
To: SteveH
No polygamy was NOT an Old Testament practice.
Before one says that, they should actually read the old testament AND understand historical context.
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posted on
11/05/2014 7:53:11 PM PST
by
svcw
(Not 'hope and change' but 'dopes in chains')
To: 2ndDivisionVet
A real conundrum. ..
We abhore the whole 72 virgins being raped for eternity in Allah’s whorehouse but, Joe gets a pass?
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posted on
11/05/2014 7:54:35 PM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: svcw
So, apparently it was a creepy experience.
To: Vendome
How will they be able to stop it now that “gay marriage” is legal almost everywhere?
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posted on
11/05/2014 8:00:12 PM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
“The thing is I DONT CARE. I find it a repellent, dehumanizing practice that reduced females to brood mares and turned Utah into a pious stud farm.”
Joe Smith was no California Chrome. Seriously what did those chicks see in him?
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posted on
11/05/2014 8:01:08 PM PST
by
Morgana
( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
To: Morgana
That bulge in his pocket .... his wallet.
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posted on
11/05/2014 8:02:45 PM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
To: svcw
Just saying. A tour. What’s your problem?
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posted on
11/05/2014 8:04:58 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
(I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I wasn’t just referring to that, I mean over all. A champion horse has it in every department. Judging by Joe’s criminal record I’m not sure I’d hire him to clean the stables.
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posted on
11/05/2014 8:06:58 PM PST
by
Morgana
( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I can guarantee you that polygamy will be enthusiastically welcomed when the Slat Lake City prophets change their minds.
Anyone wanna start a betting pool when that will happen?
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posted on
11/05/2014 8:11:44 PM PST
by
fishtank
(The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
To: svcw
“No polygamy was NOT an Old Testament practice.”
I am guessing what was practiced by Moses, Abraham, Solomon, and David is not considered an Old Testament practice. We are just missing the context, you see.
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posted on
11/05/2014 8:15:12 PM PST
by
sagar
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