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Posted by: hhw ( )
Date: November 18, 2012 03:15PM

Here is an German documentary about Mormons.I guess
it's from 1967.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTaZKYrT7BQ&feature=related

Today such a documentary would be more ironic.
This one is more critical:
Mormons are described as a Sekte (sect, cult)

One citation: "The indoctrination of the children begins
earlier".
There is a councillor from USU (?) who describes the
problems of Mormon students

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Posted by: Kyle ( )
Date: November 18, 2012 03:35PM

Not that it matters.. but it's later than 1972.. as thats when the church office building was finished.

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Posted by: german lurker ( )
Date: November 18, 2012 03:45PM

> I guess
it's from 1967.

Why? ;-)
Harold B. Lee was president from July 72 until Dec. 73
Also have a look at the clothes and the hairstyles - typisch 70er Jahre :-)

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Posted by: fritz ( )
Date: November 18, 2012 06:46PM

The presenter tells us that the documentary was 10 years old and made by someone called Desmond Clayton. Also that the church's attitude towards black people had changed meanwhile. Thus, the documentary can't have been shown earlier than in 1978 and not have been made earlier than in 1968.

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Posted by: Leah ( )
Date: November 18, 2012 08:11PM

Probably from the early 1970s, the film gives the number of members as approx. 3 million and also mentions that polygamy was abolished 75 years before.

Almost makes you want to join, doesn't it? LOL
The morg has sure shifted shape since those halcyon days when
the church still claimed to be there to help members, the bishop worried about a member who lost his job, and directed the RS president to go to their house and take a food order.

Of course, it also shows Harald B. Lee at the pulpit, stating that people and nations are NOT to use birth control - no matter how poor they are. He promises them the whirlwind if they do,claiming God will not be mocked.
yikes.

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