The new church wasmillennialist, believing in theimminentSecond Comingof Christ and his establishment of a 1,000-year reign of peace. This belief inspired Smith’s desire to establish Zion, the kingdom of God, which was to be built somewhere in the western United States. He received revelati...
By the following year, Taylor’s rebels had taken control of most of the country and killed Doe. More than 200,000 people died in the fighting that occurred between 1989 and 1996 in what is known as the First Liberian Civil War. At this time, the presence of the LDS Church in the ...
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Members of the LDS Church are to pay "one-tenth of all their interest annually."[1] Every year, each member is asked to meet with the bishop to declare their tithing status: full-tithe payer, partial-tithe payer, or non-tithe payer. Tithing is considered a debt.[2] However, it ...
As recently as March of this year, the First Presidencysent out a letterto members of the Church in Utah encouraging participation in the various caucus meetings around the state and even requesting that no Church meetings take place on caucus day so that members would have no excuse not to ...
Covenantectomy: Resigning membership in LDS Church. Promising never again to attend the Mormon temple. Covered Wagon: A condom, despised by Mormons, as it results in no babies. Coy Scouts: Don't be coy with me. A don't ask, don't tell organization. Cranial Coitus Syndrome: Fucked ...
A few years ago I was at a convention where several book and movie people were holding a panel discussion and that very question was raised. The consensus of the panel was that although our Church membership is much larger, the LDS buying public is really only about 3 million, with 1.5 ...
Church. When asked by CNN in June of that year, “What is the Mormon position on homosexuality being a sin?” Romney responded, “I’m not a spokesman for my church. And one thing I’m not going to do in running for president is become a spokesman for my church or apply a ...
Through the wonders of facebook I was able to view a video shared by the brother of a friend that showed a 12 year old girl sharing her ‘testimony’ of being gay. Much of what she said was fine, but some of it was direct refutation of church teachings and her plans to go against...
useful. But he gives weird and bad advice — some of which the church largely ignores. It looks like something a 19th century grifter would cobble together from scraps of health fads that were lying around at the time, in complete ignorance of anything that would later be revealed by ...