Posted by:
cludgie
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Date: February 02, 2019 03:16PM
As a matter of fact, Mormons then weren't restricted from talking about anything except (as I recall) Emma Smith; we had to talk about her in whispered voices, because Smith had said all these grandiose things about Emma, but she elected to stay behind. Anyway, gospel doctrine class was taught from books by the notorious right-wing dingbat Cleon Skousen, and from Duane Crowther's book, "Prophecy, Key to the Future." Teaching from a book by Skousen was much like teaching from the writings of Glenn Beck. And everything back then included the "evils of Communism and Socialism," and how the Soviet Russians would attack us at some point with nuclear weapons, so we all had to have food storage. And by some never-explained future happenstance, we would all quit our various locations and travel to Missouri to gather in the New Jerusalem for the ushering in of the Last Days. This was constant, mind you, and was a classic mind-f*ck for the youth. Many of us were very scared. So... You think the church is nutty now,...