LDS Mormon Facts 11-20
Useful or not, they're still true.
Useful or not, they're still true.
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Author: Curtis Weller
To quote an Apostle of Jesus Christ (of Latter-day Saints);
'Some things that are true are not very useful.'
(Boyd K. Packer, "The Mantle Is Far, Far Greater than the Intellect," CES Symposium, 1981.)
This section of WhyMormons.net devotes itself to such factoids about the mainstream LDS Church and its history.
Thomas C. Sharpe is credited with having invented the term 'Jack Mormon' while writing for the Warsaw Signal.
LDS women aren't allowed to stand in the blessing circle for their own children. Why is this fact important? Fathers that are non-Mormon or unworthy (according to Mormon standards) are allowed to stand in the blessing circle while their baby is blessed by a more worthy LDS priesthood holder. Mainstream Mormonism would argue that eligibility to participate (or stand in the circle) would require the priesthood. Interestingly enough, because non-Mormon, or otherwise unworthy men, are allowed to participate in the circle, worthiness, priesthood, and even membership take a back seat to gender. Since it's obviously not a 'priesthood' restriction, why can't women (e.g. the mother) participate in the blessing circle? With this in mind, why couldn't non-Mormons or unworthy Mormons participate in LDS temple wedding ceremonies with their friends and family?
He was a Jack Mormonn: A man named 'Jack Mormonn' (spelled with 2 n's) was baptized into the LDS Mormon church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
According to some financial estimations, the LDS church contributes between a fraction of 1% and 3% of its earnings each year towards humanitarian efforts. Even some non-religious corporations are known to contribute 5% or more of their earnings to charity.
The LDS church does not own the Coca-Cola or Pepsi companies. The LDS church does, however, own many other corporations and recently spent $2 billion on a mall and other commercial developments in downtown Salt Lake City.
There were three black slaves who arrived with the first pioneers to the Salt Lake Valley.
Commandment or No Commandment: After the Word of Wisdom was accepted as an official LDS scripture, Joseph Smith and many other leaders of the church often enjoyed beer, wine, coffee, tea and tobacco throughout their lives. In fact, a First Presidency statement in the early 1900s declared Danish beer as an officially approved beverage that didn't violate the Word of Wisdom. Since that time, LDS church leaders have preached that even sipping one drink of alcohol, coffee, tea, or using tobacco in any small way would prevent one from receiving a temple recommend and ultimately receiving 'eternal life' (e.g. the Celestial Kingdom).
The Word of Wisdom was only a suggestion or guideline for more than half a century. Pictures still exist of spittoons in the Salt Lake Temple to accommodate users of chewing tobacco, including the highest ranking church leadership.
Baptism for the dead wasn't always gender specific. While today only men can be baptized on behalf of males and women on behalf of females, in the beginning, males could be baptized on behalf of females, and females could be baptized on behalf of males.
President Barack Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was posthumously baptized and endowed in the LDS Provo, Utah temple in June of 2008. How did she feel about religion while alive? According to President Obama, he says 'For my mother, organized religion too often dressed up closed-mindedness in the garb of piety, cruelty and oppression in the cloak of righteousness . . .In sum, my mother viewed religion through the eyes of the anthropologist she would become; it was a phenomenon to be treated with a suitable respect, but with a suitable detachment as well.'
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