Or else ol' JS is being channeled from the grave!
...the presidential campaign of Mormon Church founder Joseph Smith in 1844: “Challenging Democrat James Polk and Whig Henry Clay, Smith prophesied that if the U.S. Congress did not accede to his demands that ‘they shall be broken up as a government and God shall damn them.’
Smith viewed capturing the presidency as part of the mission of the church.
I didn’t know that. Thanks.
“...the presidential campaign of Mormon Church founder Joseph Smith in 1844: “Challenging Democrat James Polk and Whig Henry Clay, Smith prophesied that if the U.S. Congress did not accede to his demands that ‘they shall be broken up as a government and God shall damn them.’”
“Smith viewed capturing the presidency as part of the mission of the church.”
That is exactly correct about Joseph Smith. He was not only a flim-flam man, he was a dangerous person. He formed a “militia” while in Navoo and gave himself the rank of Lieutenant General when this was NEVER done in other states. Authorities realized his militia wasn’t for the defense of the State, but Smith’s interests.
He didn’t die a matyr like the Mormon church portrays. He violated First Ammendment Free Press rights by sanctioning the destruction of an anti-Mormon paper. He was jailed for that. Indeed he was killed by a mob, but in the process killed several with pistols that had been smuggled to him. He is not a “classic” matyr. He took life in the process of being matyred....not a true matyr.
Throughout the Mormon churches history, their “prophet” always has conveinent prohecies to fit the situation. Whereas, true Christianity has be unchanging even when it wasn’t popular. It is a bogus operation. Their missionaries are taught to lie about true Morman beliefs, and Romney learned that lesson well.