I ponderized about this, then randyj's thread lit a fire under me to post:

How much of the LDS church was self-serving for JS, then BY under "color of authority"? Bonus points for leaders after them.

Let's start the ball rolling with something from randyj's thread from the D&C: "thou shalt give heed unto all his words and commandments which he shall
give unto you as he receiveth them...For his word ye shall receive, as if from
my own mouth...(i.e. from Jesus, even the Christ)

Then, like any good cult leader, we have:

Eternal family salvation if you "give" your daughter/wife to "the Prophet".

JS gets a house/inn built for himself.

Private bodyguards/army (how'd *that* work out?)

Brigham Young announced that God shared his prejudices and his blood lust. "This shall always be so."

Hinckley excused his dishonesty with denial: "I don't know that we teach that."

They've all been some of the richest men in the world while enjoying that "corporate sole" thing. (See Reed Smoot Hearings)

Ezra T. got to be a prophet AND a vegetable with an auto-pen.

Spencer K. got to live out his homosexual fantasies by writing twisted books and talking about sex to little boys. Don't forget his fancy, red, high-back chair that traveled with him everywhere and pumped oxygen out of the rivets when he got excited.

Secret SLC tunnels for the Apostles to escape the law.

Warren Jeffs got to nail per-pubescent little girls...oops, I meant Joe and his foster girls (who also came with a big inheritance)

#7 Young the Terrible imbibes his daily tea (secretly laced with arsenic by the hand of disgusted nurse or nurses) ...and croaks.

Autopsy on file.

...actually read my post? :-)

...I hope that a few people who read my posts learned something worthwhile that they didn't know beforehand.

Randy, you are my go to authority for info about mormonism.
Science nor so much.

Briggy sold temple divorces for a dollar.

Wilford Woodruff took another wife after the manifesto.

Don't forget the bar in the mansion house! Joe liked his cigars and whiskey.

I think pudgy Joe liked the General's uniform the most. Perhaps it was slimming. And lets not forget his own personal abortion doctor!