"Rethinking Mormonism" has an excellent chronology (with source citations) of Joe's activities:
http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/JS_Polygamy_Timeline.htm

In the first six months of 1842, he married eight women, six of whom were already married to other men. During the first two weeks of May, 1843, he took four teenage brides, including the 14-year-old Helen Mar Kimball and the Lawrence sisters. He had other periods of intense "marital" activity as well.

Did God really require all that booty? I think not!

This timeline documents the coercive, high-pressure tactics he used to bed many of these women, as well as his patterns of taking several new brides during short periods of time -- sometimes as little as ten days. How could anybody look at those those patterns and say God was directing him?

Even my horny pagan deities don't do that.

" How could anybody look at those those patterns and say God was directing him?"


Maybe a manic phase?

Damnit, god's off his meds again!



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That's what I was thinking also. Excpecialy where it said the members were shocked to see him and had thought he was out of town.

I got the hubster to read about half of it, then I started arguing with him. Damn it all to hell. I fell so hopeless with my marriage right now.

Maybe he was just a dirty old man!

There is no way to read about the history of JS and not come to the same conclusion. Just read his actual words in the letters he wrote or in the diaries kept by these girls and women where they quote him. He comes of like a complete sleezeball using horrible pickup lines. JS was a creepy, slimy, dirty old pervert.

I am a sex fiend, you say that like its a bad thing ;) Really ol' Joe makes the rest of us fiends look bad.

Today it would be called sex addiction.