LDS Mormon Facts 111-120
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.
Secret Combinations: On August 8, 1992, The Salt Lake Tribune reported that the First Presidency's spokesman had publicly acknowledged the existence of a secret 'Strengthening the Members Committee' that kept (and continues to keep) secret files on church members regarded as disloyal. Due to publicity on this matter, including New York Times, the First Presidency issued a statement on August 13, 1992 defending the organization of this apostle-directed committee as consistent with God's commandment to Joseph Smith to gather documentation about non-Mormons who 'mob and persecute' the LDS Church. The First Presidency listed Apostles James E. Faust and Russell M. Nelson as leading the committee.
The LDS Church owns a private hunting facility at Westlake Farms north of Elberta, Utah, where wealthy hunting patrons pay up to $8,500 to kill for sport.
Ever wonder when individual sacrament cups came into practice? In March of 1912, The First Presidency asked local leaders to discontinue the use of a common drinking cup during sacrament.
Two males sealed as husband and wife: Bruce and Leasa Jensen were sealed in the Salt Lake Temple for time and all eternity. Except Leasa was really a man named Felix Urioste, who duped Bruce into thinking he was a woman. Felix had taken hormones to help appear more feminine. The fiasco lasted more than three years.
Not just for men: At least 23 women attended classes at The School of the Prophets, an early training ground for missionaries established by Joseph Smith in Kirtland, Ohio in 1833.
First splinter group to break away from Joseph Smith's Mormon church, then called the Church of Christ: The Pure Church of Christ, established by Wycam Clark and Northrop Sweet in Kirtland, Ohio, 1831.
Oops, the Mormon God spoke too soon: The Kirtland Revelation Book shows that on March 8th, 1832, Jesse Gause was called as a counselor to Joseph Smith in the presidency. This was confirmed a week later in a 'revelation' to Smith. Nobody knows why, but Jesse Gause's name was crossed out and that of Frederick G. Williams was scribbled in.
Code Red: In March of 1832, Joseph Smith began using code names in the revelations that he received. Joseph's code name was 'Enoch.' Newel Whitney's was 'Ahashdah.' Sidney Rigdon's was 'Pelegoram.' Years later the real names were added in parentheses. It wasn't until the 1981 edition of the Doctrine and Covenants that the code names were removed.
Pray to know the truth... even if you don't feel anything: So, you've prayed about the Book of Mormon and didn't feel anything? No worries. Brigham Young prayed and prayed but didn't feel anything either. It wasn't until two years after he'd prayed about the Book of Mormon, and after several members of his immediate family pressured him to join, that Brigham was finally baptized in the Mormon church.
Persecution complex? Stand in line: Historians agree that the period between 1830 and 1865, the U.S. experienced its greatest era of urban violence. The Mormons were a small drop in the bucket compared to violence against Catholics, Abolitionists, immigrants, prostitutes, Masons, and a plethora of other 'unpopular' minorities.
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