LDS folks are typically nice, but it's a pretty fracking far fetched story.
meh. it's the same crap as the rest of religions. people just like to make fun of it 'cause the lds version supposedly happened 100+ years ago instead of 2000+.
lots of fringe benies for the lds tribe. for ex., if we were all mormons we wouldn't have to be all "how can i get to pr for the big khatz tourney for less than $500/head." we'd just plug into our lds network and head down to tropical paradise where some hapless brother would feed and house us for free all week.
and be happy to do it! crazy crap.
I am on their side about the polygamy. If you choose that, you choose that....government was just scared of the power that LDS was gathering. Now, I happen to believe Joseph Smith was just a sex addicted con man, who concocted the entire thing....just as apparently he did with facts in his business dealings.
The LDS people don't believe in or practice polygamy anymore. It's another sect that claims to be Mormons but are rejected by the main church that does that now.
Went to Salt Lake City with my mom a couple years ago. We took a tour of the Tabernacle the first night there and the (cute) girls who gave us a tour were really brainwashy. Not as in they were trying to brainwash us, just they seemed completely convinced in everything they were taught and just blindly followed w/e the church's rules were and I know that's kinda what religion is but most people are more casual about it. I think Mormons have a much higher % of "hardcore" followers than normal Christians do and it kinda freaks people out. Went to school with a Mormon girl...she was nice but really odd and I didn't talk to her more than I had to. Overall I think religions in general freak me out with how people get sucked in and Mormons really take the cake on that.
How can they dismiss polygomy when Joseph Smith himself said that God told him it was cool. By the way, ol' Joe didn't come to that realization until very late in his career after he became mayor, head of the millitia, and of the head of the church in their then HQ city enclave in Illinois. We do they get to cherry pick that little nugget as being a fallacy but the rest of the cockamamy stuff gets to stay?
Brigham Young himself had a bagillion wives and kids. Are they saying that dude, the second highest ranking dead dude in the joint, was out of line as well? I mean, it's well documented that he and his crew slaughtered women and children in a notable event in the Utah/Wyoming territory region, so maybe they are just acknowledging his shadiness by turning their backs on one of his favorite passtimes.
It's all very confusing.
