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Date: May 24, 2011 01:52PM
Regarding Joe Smith and millennial tendencies, Joe had 'em all right, but he also wanted to be the one-and-only when it came to revelations about the End Times.
"There was a strong millennial strain within the Mormon movement, and Smith had to restrain his followers from getting involved from Wm. Miller’s predictions in 1843." (Quoted from an Oxford lecture series.)
"Fun fact: The “rapture” doctrine was invented in the early 1800s by John Nelson Darby, right around the same time Joseph Smith invented Mormonism and Hans Christian Andersen invented the Little Mermaid." (Quoted from the Blackmoor Vituperative Society, which had, in turn, picked it up from the Boston newspaper, "The Phoenix" -- see
http://thephoenix.com/boston/news/120934-god-hates-faqs/#ixzz1N69dtCdO )
From page 2 of the story linked to above:
"WHY IS THERE DISAGREEMENT OVER WHETHER WE'RE ALREADY IN THE TRIBULATION PERIOD?
"As best I can tell, it depends on how you feel about the quantity of worldwide butt-f**king. All sides agree that the prevalence of gay sex is a sign of the approaching End Times. They also agree that gay sex will then be even more rampant during the Tribulations — one popular Rapture site notes that "homosexual and lesbian relationships [will be] highly encouraged." The difference is that Camping believes that there is so much same-sex f**king in the world now, we must already be well into the Tribulations, while mainstreamers believe that this is nothing compared to the amount of gay banging we'll see later."