Posted by:
SamueltheLamanite
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Date: November 14, 2014 01:44PM
Back in the late 1980s, before the Internet, I discovered the following facts...
*Joseph Smith had sex with men's wives while the men were in England on missions
*Brigham Young ordered people murdered who got in his way
*Brigham Young sold tons of tobacco and whiskey to the Gentiles, while at the same time told Mormons not to buy or sell to Gentiles.
*In the height of polygamy in Utah, there was a brothel (whore house) on almost every block of the city--because half of all Mormon women and girls over the age of 13 were polygamous wives, leaving 40% of Mormon men without the opportunity to marry in this life.
*Joseph Smith practiced polygamy and LIED about that, denying he was a polygamist, in public sermons, etc.
*Joseph Smith arranged the murder of two men (one of them was Lilburn Boggs...can't blame Joseph for that one)
*During the Missouri wars Joseph Smith ordered the Mormon Militia to "spoil the Gentiles" meaning to steal their property.
*Joseph Smith told young girls that an Angel with a flaming sword commanded him to enter into plural marriage.
*Joseph Smith told young girls that if they became his "spiritual wife" (i.e. if they gave him sex on demand, in secret), they and their extended families (fathers, mothers, aunts, uncles, cousins, brothers, sisters) would ALL be exalted in the celestial Kingdom, but, if they refused him, they would go to Hell-fire (the Church still taught the concept of HEll-fire in the 1840s....later abandoning it)
When I discovered all this, I contacted various Church leaders and historians to ask for replies. I was told the following:
"Don't worry about it!"
"Why are you questioning the Brethren?"
"Do you masturbate?"
And this is what the historians/BYU religion professors told me:
"HE HAD THE AUTHORITY!"
In other words, if you are the Living Prophet, you can commit adultery, murder, sell massive amounts of whiskey or tobacco, because God must have approved it, and given you the Divine Authority to do so!
Really...that is what I was told, over and over again.