Posted by:
AmIDarkNow?
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Date: November 11, 2014 10:28AM
Due to instantaneous data sharing not censored by the church.
Recent news coverage of the Essays point out these main issues:
1. Forty wives some as young as 14. Emma didn’t know about many and was distressed about those she did know.
2. Church disavowed polygamy under pressure, not from God, but the US government.
3. Current members perceptions are rocked about their all but deified prophet.
4. Three times an Angel with a sword forced him to take an extra wife. (Why not forty times?)
5. Fanny Alger identified. (Hey TBM. You really don’t want to open that door!)
6. Celestial polygamy a church doctrine and expected practice in heaven disturbing to LDS women.
7. Helen Mar identified. (Again TBM. You really don’t want to open that door either!)
Thanks to the internet this will spread faster than wildfire. Even missionaries will hear the rumors of the Essays and will go get the info that they have been faithfully denying in public only to learn that anti-mormon lies were truths withheld to protect testimony.
Untold tens of thousands will be drawn to read the Essays on polygamy and will then read all the other essays. They will blog, tweet, text, email, Facebook, debate do research to show one another who has more info, who is right on the facts, more research, more questions, sharing and sharing and sharing outside the censorship influences of the LDS church. Then will come the inevitable conclusions for those that are honest with what they learn.
One click for a group text, one click to share link out to 30 friends, one click to post to a readership of a hundred, or a thousand. It is a tidal wave of info that now exonerates every supposed anti-mormon that ever lived and damns the men behind the Institution that are shown now as righteous deceivers at best, outright thieves and liars at worst.
There may not be mass disaffection in the immediate future but what there will be is ample justification for non-belief that can no longer be dismissed.
Imagine the reply’s that I and others like me will give to family and friends still members, similar to what I would give to my Stake President FIL.
“The difference between you and I father is that I refuse to believe that any god would send an Angel to kill me if I did not destroy the relationship with the wife of my youth, your daughter, from the instant I capitulated to life rather than dying on principle! My religion will have become the enforcer and I a liar, forever giving up the most precious thing I supposed fought for in the pre-existence. That being my hard fought agency to love one wife forever.”
And for that missionary out there that learns of the essays and goes to his MP and is honest about his now justified non-belief due to the essays, will the MP send him home? Will the SP guilt and berate the missionary and shame them for not praying, lack of faith, sinning? Will the parents then be shamed by such a missionary or proud if sent home early as a direct result of the Essays?
“I am a Mormon” just got its ass kicked. Now when a non-mormon thinks Mormonism they will think “An angel with a sword? A rock in a hat? Polygamy in heaven?” I think not! And no one can call it anti-mormon.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/11/11/mormon-leaders-admit-church-founder-joseph-smith-practiced-polygamy/?intcmp=latestnewshttp://www.cnn.com/2014/11/11/living/mormon-founder-polygamy/index.html?hpt=hp_inthenewshttp://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/it%E2%80%99s-official-mormon-founder-had-up-to-40-wives/ar-AA7wKYChttp://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/11/us/its-official-mormon-founder-had-up-to-40-wives.html?_r=0