Posted on 05/01/2008 10:47:42 AM PDT by Politicalmom
“Were you the youngest child in the family?”
No, but I did refuse to grow up.
So, I might be now.
I read the Bible daily, and know it relatively well. I can’t think of anything Jesus said that has “gone out of style,” or has become considered to be abhorrent, like Joseph Smith’s advice about polygamy has.
When I was growing up it was a fairly common sight to see 7-10 year old boys driving tractors. I haven't seen it in a long time though and that's a good thing.
I was working in the fields myself from about 9 or 10 years old.
I got the absolutely dirtiest job riding the planter and keeping the hoppers filled, by the time I was 13 or 14 I was putting up hay and that has to be among the most demanding jobs on earth.
LOL Well, I won't, because I suspect such a refutation isn't going to happen.
I know what I did when I was that age.
LOL!
Why should I refute such obvious garbage?
Can you cite for me just one instance of anybody at F.R. who has said or implied that they hate Mormons?
But...but...what would we do for fun on FR if there were no leaks?
Did you ever fall off and break your bones?
Oh, thanks. Now there’s a bullet hole in my Flatscreen monitor.
Good thing I have multiple monitors.
One that is preparing his formal letter of resignation from the church.
The worst and most outrageous "quotes" attributed to Joe Smith and Brigham Young turned out TO BE FACT, WORD FOR WORD IN MOST INSTANCES !
Polygamy, True
POLYAMORY (marrying other men's wives), TRUE
Church ordered INCEST (BROTHER / SISTER), TRUE
Plan of Salvation from Swedenborg 1775, not Joe Smith, true
Blood atonement, true
Kinderhook Plates, true
Rosetta stone proves book of Abraham FRAUD, true
JOSEPH SMITH KILLED 2 MEN MOMENTS BEFORE DEATH, TRUE
Joseph smith jailed for ordering destruction of printing press used to expose Smith marrying (screwing) printers wife, TRUE
And this, maybe was the straw that broke the camel's back:
"Come on! ye prosecutors! ye false swearers! All hell, boil over! Ye burning mountains, roll down your lava! for I will come out on top at last. I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam. A large majority of the whole have stood by me. Neither Paul, John, Peter, nor Jesus ever did it. I boast that no man ever did such a work as I. The followers of Jesus ran away from Him; but the Latter-day Saints never ran away from me yet...When they can get rid of me, the devil will also go."Joseph Smith (History of the Church, Vol. 6, p. 408, 409)
This boastful and deceitful man who claimed to be greater than Christ is not the Joseph Smith I had been taught and told about, I HAD BEEN LIED TO ALL MY LIFE, AND SO HAVE YOU.
Amen!
Wow! Well done. I’m curious to see what response you’ll get.
Ho hum, seen it before, and I really doubt you were ever in a bishopric.
I am a descendant of Emer Harris, brother of Martin Harris, one of the three witnesses.
I have much to atone for.
This has information on two issues. First, it gives a count of the number of independent living quarters at the ranch -- 19. I believed there were more than one because some parents had said they lived in their own houses, but now we know that there were quite a few different houses.
Second, it states that each of the 19 homes included at least one girl who had been pregnant while "underage", although it doesn't identify what "underage" means.
This story also suggests that they KNEW this when they arrived at the ranch. If true, that means on the DAY of the raid, CPS "knew" there were 19 girls who had been pregnant before turning 18 (I assume that's what they mean by underage).
However, early stories suggested they didn't know this and that they only learned it later.
Either CPS is not being accurate here, or it is another example where the fog of early reports is lifting.
Actually, many of us have already paid the price by staying in the sect so long. Atonement will come when we can help others through kind and honest efforts to get LDS folks and family to understand the truth without the defensive battle OMM poses in every thread. There really is nothing to fight over once one faces the truth with a degree of honesty.
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