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MORMONS
mauzip:
There's only a small group of mormons that does polygamy. Most mormons hate those people because you have to have 1 partner or something (according to most mormons).
Trauma can probably explain better, but that's what mormons always used to tell me.
Trauma-san:
I basically haven't explained it because this isn't an attempt to learn anything, they just want to get some cheap shots in on Mormons. Since some of you like Mauzip seem interested, i'll explain Mormons & Polygamy.
Since Joseph Smith taught that he was a prophet of God, and since Mormon beliefs were slightly (not really much, though) different from other christian churches, most people that were christian hated him with a passion. The Mormons were chased out of several northeastern states, and Joseph Smith & his brother were murdered by a mob that broke into the jailhouse he was imprisoned in.
As a result, the Mormons abandoned their Navoo settlement in the fall, where they were building a huge temple. They finished the temple, and then deserted it as soon as it was dedicated to the lord, and headed west. On the journey, they were caught in several storms (it was late in the year) and many Mormon men died trying to get their families to a place where they wouldn't be killed and hated strictly because of their religion. There's all kinds of sad stories about men carrying women & children over rivers, and then dying of exaustion on the other side of the river, etc.
The book of Mormon has stories condeming polygamy, and it was never a part of the Mormon religion until they reached Salt Lake City. Once there, they realized that many Women had became widows on the trip, and Mormons believe it's a sin to live with a woman you're not married to. The reaction the Mormons came up with was that, as in the old testament, some of the wealthier men (like Brigham Young, the head of the church after Smith's death) brought it upon themselves to marry widowed women, so that they could stay in their homes & be supported by them. It wasn't a big sex orgy as the perverted few on this board would have you believe.
Things got out of hand, when a few bad seeds in the church DID start taking advantage, and marrying women solely for pleasure, etc. etc. Eventually, the United States passed a law saying Polygamy was illegal, and the Church agreed with the law, forbidding polygamy, and discommunicating any Mormon found practicing it. The church split, with a small group leaving the church and starting their own church, where polygamy was still allowed. The Mormon church hasn't allowed polygamy in over a hundred years.
Lincoln:
--- Quote from: Don Jacob Corleone on December 27, 2003, 02:29:17 AM ---well if your going to single out a religion here, if you look in the qua'ran or koran or whatever it's called the 'prophet' muhammed was attracted to an 9 year old little girl.
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The Prophet was not attracted to the girl. She was the daughter of one of his closest friends (Abu Bekr or Omar, I don't recall which one at this point) and the Prophet felt spiritually close to the young girl.
Lincoln:
--- Quote from: Lincoln on December 27, 2003, 10:01:46 AM ---
--- Quote from: Don Jacob Corleone on December 27, 2003, 02:29:17 AM ---well if your going to single out a religion here, if you look in the qua'ran or koran or whatever it's called the 'prophet' muhammed was attracted to an 9 year old little girl.
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The Prophet was not attracted to the girl. She was the daughter of one of his closest friends (Abu Bekr or Omar, I don't recall which one at this point) and the Prophet felt spiritually close to the young girl.
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I looked it up, Ayesha was the daughter of Abu Bekr.
mauzip:
--- Quote from: Trauma on December 27, 2003, 07:28:37 AM ---I basically haven't explained it because this isn't an attempt to learn anything, they just want to get some cheap shots in on Mormons. Since some of you like Mauzip seem interested, i'll explain Mormons & Polygamy.
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I lived a year in a community with mainly mormons, that's why I know a little bit about that religion.
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