20 truly crazy Mormon beliefs
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1.Polygamy is still doctrinal in heaven and included in LDS scripture. See D&C 132 … so you get one wife now, but can have lots in the next life.

2.Racism: If you have dark skin and convert to Mormonism, your skin will begin to lighten/whiten

3.You become a God/Goddess and are given powers to create your own worlds without number

4.The Garden of Eden was in Missouri when Adam and Eve were kicked out

5.Native Americans are the descendants of the Lamanites spoken of in the Book of Mormon

6.Love isn’t as strong between couples and families who are not LDS

7.3 Nephites still roam the Earth from Christ’s visit to the America’s, blessed by Him to not experience death until his second coming

8.Racism again: Black people bear the curse of Cain and were born black because they were less valiant in the pre-existence (pre-Earth life) and sat on the fence as to whether to follow Satan/Lucifer or Jesus

9.God the father is only one of millions of endless Gods who are all basically relatives, fathers, brothers, grand-gods and so forth to our own God. If you are worthy, then you get to join the God club too.

10.Misogyny: A woman’s purpose in heaven is solely to birth endless babies to populate the worlds created by their husbands. Billions and billions of babies!

11.Temple garments or magic underwear will protect you from physical harm or the grasp of Satan

12.Misogyny again: The church partners with the Boy Scouts of America for the development of males but does not endorse nor partner with the Girl Scout programs or similar female d
evelopment programs

13.Dinosaur fossils are to test our faith, and likely came from matter left over from past destroyed planets that were used/recycled to create Earth

14.Jesus was supposed to come in the year 2000, that is until he didn’t

15.God is a resurrected, extra terrestrial, exalted human male who lives on a planet near a star called Kolob. See Book of Abraham, chapter 3 in Pearl of Great Price

16.The Holy Ghost goes to bed at midnight, so all dates, sleepovers, or other activities by youth or single people need to end by midnight or else you won’t have protection or guidance against the temptations of the devil

17.The Earth was once in orbit around Kolob, but was expelled when Adam fell from the Garden of Eden. It will again return to that orbit after the millennium, or at least that was what was supposed to happen.

18.There are people living on the moon. They dress much like Quakers and they are tall, many standing seven feet tall or more. One day they will send missionaries to teach them the gospel. There are also people living on the sun. Journal of Discourses, Vol. 13, p. 217

19.Jesus was not born of a virgin birth. God had literal sex with Mary to conceive Jesus.

20.The earth is 7,000 years old

What tends to happen is that potential converts are presented with the more palatable stuff at first. Once you are invested in the basics, then the weirder stuff becomes easier to buy into later on. That perhaps is a pattern most beliefs adopt … give them the easy to digest stuff first to get them hooked, then gradually reel them deeper in.

What is clear is that when it comes to the Mormons, reality is not a local call, but is in fact so far away that international dialing codes kick in.


http://www.skeptical-science.com/religion/mormonism-weirder/?relatedposts_hit=1&relatedposts_origin=9150&relatedposts_position=1

I liked this. "International dialing codes kick in." Ha. How about intergalactic codes instead?

Then some gal told the writer his info was all false so he unloaded a ton of quotes to prove his point.

And they belive they are christen.

The whole thing is whacky to the max..

obviously..

What baffles me now though is how come I didn't see that when I was in it?

The simple stuff that only takes a tiny bit of logic to break wide open. Like:

16.The Holy Ghost goes to bed at midnight, so all dates, sleepovers, or other activities by youth or single people need to end by midnight or else you won’t have protection or guidance against the temptations of the devil


What about everybody who works night shifts?
There must be millions of people working night shifts. Are they left without guidance because the holy ghost is asleep??

And then of course there are the time zones... Does he go fall asleep on Amsterdam's midnight... or Los Angeles midnight...
(talk about 9 hours between them...)

But still... I just never thought of that!
Never...

Until the blinders of mormon fell from my eyes .. thén I could see..



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/22/2015 03:10AM by Becca.

The Magic Moment

When a person is a young TBM, they see JW's or FLDS and think: Those people are WEIRD!

Later on they realize that MORmONS and MORmONISM, the religion that they have been raised in is just as weird as those other weird religions.

MORmONS are not weird, just ask Gordon Hinckley!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YEMX0VooD4