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steve benson
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Date: September 11, 2012 11:33PM
"Great Morments in LDS Mormon Church History . . .
"May 14,1961 - Apostle Joseph Fielding Smith announces to stake conference in Honolulu: 'We will never get a man into space. This earth is man's sphere and it was never intended that he should get away from it.' Smith, the Twelve's president and next in succession as LDS President, adds: 'The moon is a superior planet to the earth and it was never intended that man should go there. You can write it down in your books that this will never happen.' In May 1962, he privately instructs that this view be taught to 'the boys and girls in the Seminary System.' On 20 July 1969 U.S. Astronauts are first men to walk on moon. Six months later Joseph Fielding Smith becomes church president."
[For Joseph Fielding Smith's non-prophetically published moonwalk denial, see Joseph Fielding Smith, "Doctrines of Salvation," Bruce R. McConkie, comp., vol. 3 (Salt Lake Cit, Utah: Bookcraft, 1954-56), p. 203]
http://www.i4m.com/think/history/mormon_history.htm_____
"Mormons: Was Joseph Fielding Smith's prophecy that man would never walk on the moon Divinely Inspired?
"May 14, 1961 - Apostle Joseph Fielding Smith announces to stake conference in Honolulu:
"'We will never get a man into space. This earth is man's sphere and it was never intended that he should get away from it."
"Smith, the Twelve's president and next in succession as LDS President, adds:
"'The moon is a superior planet to the earth and it was never intended that man should go there. You can write it down in your books that this will never happen.' . . .
"The funny part is that after Apollo 15's journey to the moon, the astronaut team brought JFS a Utah State Flag that they had taken with them to the moon. They gave him the flag in 1971 as a token of his 'failed prophecy.'"
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070402104402AAdzysL_____
"As an example of Apostle Smith's rejection of science, he instructed a stake conference in 1961: 'We will never get a man into space. This earth is man's sphere and it was never intended that he should get away from it. The moon is a superior planet to the earth and it was never intended that man should go there. You can write it down in your books that this will never happen.'
(See E, 848, entry for 14 May 1961, with commentary a few days later in George S. Tanner diary, JWML [J.Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah]).
"Smith wanted this view to be taught to 'the boys and girls in the Seminary System.' However, U.S. astronauts walked on the moon six months before he became president of the church in January 1970."
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As one understandably skeptical observer noted of Smith's looney-moony "prophesy":
"I've heard, as an excuse for President Smith's stupidity on this point, that he was merely 'speaking as a man' and that this opinion in no way should be taken as a reflection of official doctrine. Too bad he was actually standing at a pulpit when he said it, eh?"
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