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Tell ya what........seeing as how everyone has such an affinity for denying the origins and history of their "root" religion why not come back to the Catholic Church.
The whole mess started when Luther broke away from the "original" christian hypocrits and started their own group of hypocrits.
Then everyone can follow an ex-hitler youth and we can all focus on bombing the heck out of the Moslems in this current crusade.
Nothing like unity in faith to cement unity in purpose.
It's the LDS church thats slowly changed over the decades.
Until Pres. Hinckley came alone, the LDS leaders embraced the "peculiar people" label. They were proud of it.
GBH's PR background realized that to attact more converts the church needed to appear more mainstream and he was working on doing that.
It's why he said polygamy wasn't doctrine on Larry King.
The LDS Church needs to clarify or distance itself from Section 132 if it doesn't want to be seen by the rest of the world as practicing polygamy.
And to Cosmo, yes, Warren Jeffs does have rocket fueled trousers. Very sad and scary.
In the Book or Mormon and the Doctrines and Covenants God said that man should only have one wife and no concubines. I believe you will find that the right to take other wives as David and Solomon was to preserve His leadership and promise to the descendants. I don't believe it could be to all LDS men because of the one wife guidance.
No Christian denomination is following Jesus Christ and that needs to change to bring in the kingdom. Jesus said, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by EVERY word out of the mouth of God." (including 7th day Sabbath). God has prepared a way to eliminate divisions, but we must honor every word from Genesis on to all God's prophets.
"I don't think the LDS Church can say that they no longer practice polygamy as long as D&C 132 is still taught as doctrine. As you are aware, the FLDS uses Section 132 as the sole reason they practice polygamy.
The LDS Church needs to clarify or distance itself from Section 132 if it doesn't want to be seen by the rest of the world as practicing polygamy."
I just read verses 60-63. It's pretty clear from those verses that polygamy is doctrine. Here or in the afterlife, it is doctrine.
FLDS are men who only live to commit adultery and control womankind, The (FLDS) only purpose is to have as many women servants as possible in this life. The FLDS men indulge their entire lives into having sex. FLDS is a sex based organization. On the other hand, the LDS are a true religion and don't practice plural marriage. They believe in God and are true Christians.
At home or where'er we may be...
...Oh, the kind words we give shall in memory live,
And sunshine forever impart.
Let us oft speak kind words to each other;
Kind words are sweet tones of the heart
What I find amusing is that many will strictly follow these doctrines yet not follow basic human morals. They will force people to do things that they don't want to do, they will lie, cheat, and steal without a second thought, and hurt others in the name of religion.
It seems to me that the clearest path to heaven is to be a good person and be kind to others, not to follow some strange doctrine passed down by people that you don't even know.
I look at it this way:
If you are wrong, not only have you wasted your entire life, you will pay for the harm you did to others.
If you're right, I still get to heaven because I was a good person and was kind and considerate to others. And I get to enjoy life!
LDS Lawyers might as well shut up. They are arguing how many prophets can dance on the horn of an angel, wasting tithing money and doing nothing but confirming our low opinion of lawyers with their simpering.
For a group that is only 2% of the USA, you really exhibit extreme problems at them. You might want to consider getting a life.
The LDS church needs to prohibit the FLDS from using the term LDS. I assume the term LDS is trademarked and should be protected as such. Sue the FLDS for infringement.
You can convince yourself of anything if you want to believe it bad enough.
If you read any media report on the church from a source outside Utah they will call us "The Mormon Church". I am going to go dig up a few and report back.
There there is the Clarkson integrator. It has an article with the headline "Sexual Scandal in the Mormon church". Later in the article it say "Warren Jeffs is the leader of a sect of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints". There is clearly confusion.
Go look up the aricle from the Clarkson investigator and tell me how any reader will know that this is not The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Also, go look at the comments about when Jeffs got caught in the Los Angeles Times. Everyone was saying the church does not denounce Jeffs enough. It seems no matter what we do some people will gripe.
The transition to monogamy was not easy for the LDS Church because polygamy had played such a central role in Mormon doctrine and culture for so long. It was regarded as theologically necessary for complete salvation. Many church leaders therefore continued to promote polygamy, inaugurating what has been called the post-Manifesto era. The Woodruff presidency, including George Q. Cannon and Joseph F. Smith, sent Mormons to church colonies in Mexico to be married plurally. Among the apostles (members of the second-highest quorum of the church), those who married plurally after the Manifesto included John W. Taylor, Brigham Young Jr., Marriner W. Merril, Abraham Owen Woodruff, Matthias F. Cowley, Rudger Clawson, Abraham Hoagland Cannon, and George Teasdale.
Many of these marriages were solemnized in Mexico by Anthony Ivins, who later became a member of the First Presidency. Other post-Manifesto marriages were solemnized in Canada, shipboard on the Pacific Ocean, and in Utah and neighboring states.
Like I said, it will all boil down to how you treated others, not how you worship - or even whether you worship.
Cetainly you don't believe God is vain, and demanding worship would imply vanity.
So rest assured God doesn't want you to worship Him. He wants you to care for your fellow man, and protect the weak. That's how you lead a good life.
COIN THE PRASE: "TRADITIONALIST MORMONS" OR "MORMON TRADITIONALISTS" AND ALL OF ITS DERIVATIVES
(X) MODERN LDS CHURCH
(X) "TRADITIONALIST FLDS/LDS CHURCH"
INSTEAD OF FUNDAMENTALIST MORMONS
(X) MODERN CATHOLIC CHURCH
(X) TRADITIONALIST CATHOLIC CHURCH
INSTEAD OF CATHOLIC FUNDAMENTALISTS
SIGNED: RECKIPS
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Please stop posting so much. We all know your opinion. It would be nice to read someone else's opinion once in a while.
The Deseret News needs to have a rule that you cannot post more than 10 comments on each topic.
I'm sure I speak for most of the readers and contributors to this board.
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