His answer on polygamy was well.... a good reminder of what chapel Mormons are told.
He explained that in the 1800s, there was massive persecution of Mormons wer driven out of New York, Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois. In Missouri, the governor even issued Executive Order-44 which ordered that all Mormons be exterminated or driven out of the state, resulting in 10,000 Mormons who lived there either being killed or forced to flee. Executive Order-44 wasn’t overturned until 1976. As a result of this persecution, there weren’t many men left. The desire to repopulate played a role in the decision to practice polygamy, but only about 5% did it before the practice came to an end in 1890.
PrickKicker: I used to be a Narrow minded, short sighted, Lying, Racist, Homophobic, Pious, Moron. But they were all behavioral traits that I had learnt through Mormonism.
I didn't watch it, and won't. He is a buffoon who panders to a gullible audience.
Did he use cheesy charts to show how many fewer men there were than women and cry explaining how persecuted the Mormons were/are?
The Church is in a sad state if this man is viewed as representative of what Mormons are really like.
"Any over-ritualized religion since the dawn of time can make its priests say yes, we know, it is rotten, and hard luck, but just do as we say, keep at the ritual, stick it out, give us your money and you'll end up with the angels in heaven for evermore."
I wonder where he got that idea? Surely not from the church meetings he attends, because the church is completely honest and open about their history. He must have made it up all on his own.
"We have taken up arms in defense of our liberty, our property, our wives, and our children; we are determined to preserve them, or die." - Captain Moroni - 'Address to the Inhabitants of Canada' 1775
He's just one of these lazy and intransigent members who cannot be bothered educating themselves from the copious material made freely available by the church.
NOMinal member
Maksutov: "... if you give someone else the means to always push your buttons, you're lost."
His answer on polygamy was well.... a good reminder of what chapel Mormons are told.
He explained that in the 1800s, there was massive persecution of Mormons wer driven out of New York, Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois. In Missouri, the governor even issued Executive Order-44 which ordered that all Mormons be exterminated or driven out of the state, resulting in 10,000 Mormons who lived there either being killed or forced to flee. Executive Order-44 wasn’t overturned until 1976. As a result of this persecution, there weren’t many men left. The desire to repopulate played a role in the decision to practice polygamy, but only about 5% did it before the practice came to an end in 1890.
It's all true. In fact, Smith's foresight led him to marry wives who were already married to other men in anticipation of the day when persecution could possibly lead to their husbands' deaths. Such is the burden of a prophet.
Bret Ripley wrote:It's all true. In fact, Smith's foresight led him to marry wives who were already married to other men in anticipation of the day when persecution could possibly lead to their husbands' deaths. Such is the burden of a prophet.
True... Not to mention the Angel standing over him with its sword drawn ready to smite him! if he didn't marry certain folk.
PrickKicker: I used to be a Narrow minded, short sighted, Lying, Racist, Homophobic, Pious, Moron. But they were all behavioral traits that I had learnt through Mormonism.
Bret Ripley wrote:It's all true. In fact, Smith's foresight led him to marry wives who were already married to other men in anticipation of the day when persecution could possibly lead to their husbands' deaths. Such is the burden of a prophet.
True... Not to mention the Angel standing over him with its sword drawn ready to smite him! if he didn't marry certain folk.
As testimony to Smith's determination, there was to be no angel-smitin' on his watch.
