Mormonism Is Not Christian & Founding Prophet, Joseph Smith, Was A Sexual Predator

Joseph Smith's First Vision at Age 14

Joseph Smith had his first vision at age 14. Allegedly, celestial persons appeared to him: "My object in going to inquire of the Lord was to know which of all the sects was right, that I might know which to join. No sooner, therefore, did I get possession of myself, so as to be able to speak, than I asked the personages who stood above me in the light, which of all the sects was right — and which I should join. I was answered that I must join none of them, for they were all wrong, and the personage who addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in His sight: that those professors were all corrupt . . ." (Joseph Smith, History of the Church, vol. 1, p. 5-6)

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In the following video clip, Mormon founder Joseph Smith's predatory sex life is detailed by Mormon historian Sandra Tanner.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=153jwQlVkB4  

Ms. Tanner is great, great granddaughter of Brigham Young.

(Sandra Tanner's Wikipedia entry - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerald_and_Sandra_Tanner)

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The following sources clarify Mr. Romney's reluctance to discuss The Church of Latter Day Saints.

1.) A girl who resisted Joseph Smith's sexual advances was subsequently defamed by Smith as a prostitute: http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,203538

2.) Wikipedia account of Joseph Smith's first wife Emma: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Smith

3.) The individual stories of Joseph Smith's 34 wives: http://blog.mrm.org/2008/06/the-stories-of-the-wives-of-joseph-smith/ 

4.) Joseph Smith: Trading Salvation For Sex: http://www.exmormon.org/mormon/mormon432.htm

5.) Sidney Rigdon: A Portrait of Religious Excess: http://www.amazon.com/Sidney-Rigdon-Portrait-Religious-Excess/dp/1560850302

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Joseph Smith said there are many gods. 

"In the beginning, the head of the Gods called a council of the Gods; and they came together and concocted a plan to create the world and the people in it…" (Journal of Discourses, vol. 6, p. 5).

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Joseph Smith said the Trinity is comprised of three separate gods. 

"I have always declared God to be a distinct personage, Jesus Christ a separate and distinct personage from God the Father, and the Holy Ghost was a distinct personage and a Spirit: and these three constitute three distinct personages and three Gods," (Teachings of Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 370).

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Joseph Smith said God was once a man. 

"God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted Man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens... I say, if you were to see him to-day, you would see him like a man in form -- like yourselves, in all the person, image, and very form as a man.... it is necessary that we should understand the character and being of God, and how he came to be so; for I am going to tell you how God came to be God. We have imagined and supposed that God was God from all eternity,  I will refute that idea, and will take away and do away the veil, so that you may see.... and that he was once a man like us; yea, that God himself the Father of us all, dwelt on an earth the same as Jesus Christ himself did." (Journal of Discourses, v 6 p.3).

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Joseph Smith made several false prophecies. Here's one. 

". . . I prophesy in the name of the Lord God of Israel, unless the United States redress the wrongs committed upon the Saints in the state of Missouri and punish the crimes committed by her officers that in a few years the government will be utterly overthrown and wasted, and there will not be so much as a potsherd left . . . " (History of the Church, vol. 5, p. 394). Click here to see this quote in context.

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“Come on! ye persecutors! ye false swearers! All hell, boil over! Ye burning mountains, roll down your lava! for I will come out on top at last. I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that has been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam. A large majority of the whole have stood by me. Neither Paul, John, Peter, nor Jesus ever did it. I boast that no man ever did such a work as I. The followers of Jesus ran away from Him; but the Latter-day Saints never ran away from me yet... When they can get rid of me, the devil will also go.”

Click here to see this quote in context.

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"If you tell them that God made the world out of something, they will call you a fool. But I am learned, and know more than all the world put together" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p.350-352)

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“If I had forty wives in the United States, they did not know it, and could not substantiate it, neither did I ask any lawyer, judge, or magistrate for them. I live above the law, and so do this people.”

- Prophet Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, v. 1, p. 361

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"In your hands or that of any other person, so much power would, no doubt, be dangerous. I am the only man in the world whom it would be safe to trust with it. Remember, I am a prophet!"

Joseph Smith Jr.

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"Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none."

Joseph Smith Jr. 

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"...if any man preach any other Gospel than that which I have preached, he shall be cursed"
- Joseph Smith, Jr., The Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 366, also in History of the Church, v. 6, p.365

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"Interesting Quotes From Brigham Young, Second Prophet Of The Mormon Church"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/03/interesting-quotes-from-brigham-young.html

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Mormon Temple Oath until the 1930's

You and each of you do solemnly promise and vow that you will pray and never cease to importune high heaven to avenge the blood of the prophets (Joseph and Hyrum Smith) on this nation, and that you will teach this to your children and your children's children unto the third and fourth generation.

See "Oath of Vengeance" 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_of_vengeance

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Joseph Smith's Wikipedia Entry - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith  

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The Mormon’s – A PBS Frontline Documentary: 

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/01/mormons-pbs-frontline-documentary.html 

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Learn more about the Mormon God's "home planet" of "Kolob" at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolob

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Video Series Comparing Jesus Christ and Christianity with Joseph Smith and Mormonism  

A Baptist point of view. If time is short, see the "Conclusion":

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=6476067EB04FE9CB

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Utah’s Dark Reality: http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/01/utahs-dark-reality.html 

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Despite Joseph Smith's sexual predation and his establishment of a non-Christian cult (that pretends to be Christian), I acknowledge that followers of Mormonism are often outstanding, virtuous people and that freedom of religion properly guarantees them the right to subscribe to Mormon beliefs regardless their provenance.

Thomas Aquinas

Chesterton's biography of Aquinas is freely available online at:

http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~mward/gkc/books/index.html

I want to be clear at the outset.

I have no objection to Americans voting for any candidate they choose, regardless religious persuasion or lack thereof. 

Hey. I'm voting for the Muslim.

Despite "Prophet" Joseph Smith's sexual predation and his establishment of a non-Christian cult (that pretends to be Christian),  I acknowledge that followers of Mormonism are often outstanding, virtuous people and that freedom of religion properly guarantees them the right to subscribe to Mormon beliefs regardless their provenance.

Still, it is shameful that so many Christian "conservatives" plan to vote for Governor Romney without researching his personal formation-and-character.

Research is necessary if only to determine what is "hidden in plain sight": i.e., Mormonism is not a Christian religion, and founding prophet, Joseph Smith, was a sexual predator who taught that all Christian denominations were "abominations" in the sight of God. 

Informed consent is essential.

To inform conscience, responsible humans must probe the personal and cultural contexts of the politicians they elect to represent them.   

It is unacceptable to stonewall Truth or to orchestrate "plausible deniability." 

We are responsible for acts of deliberate omission as well as acts of commission.

Ironically, American Christians rooted in fundamentalist, literalist and evangelical "traditions" ignore the underpinnings of their zeal to elect a man belonging to a religious cult founded by a sexual predator who exhibits the hallmarks of an egotistical scam artist. 

Review the following sources and you will understand why Mr. Romney has been been unwilling to discuss The Church of Latter Day Saints. 

1.) Mormon historian Sandra Tanner describing Joseph Smith's sexual predation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=153jwQlVkB4   

2.) A girl who resisted Joseph Smith's advances was subsequently defamed (by Smith) as a prostitute: http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,203538  

3.) Wikipedia account of Joseph Smith's first wife, Emma: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Smith 

  

4.) The individual stories of Joseph Smith's 34 wives: http://blog.mrm.org/2008/06/the-stories-of-the-wives-of-joseph-smith/   

5.) Joseph Smith: Trading Salvation For Sex: http://www.exmormon.org/mormon/mormon432.htm

6.) Sidney Rigdon: A Portrait of Religious Excess: http://www.amazon.com/Sidney-Rigdon-Portrait-Religious-Excess/dp/1560850302

I am baffled that conservative Christians would wish to validate and normalize a "religion" that contradicts their core beliefs, unless their unquenchable desire for political power trumps their supposedly primary relationship with God.

If the Christians who comprise Romney's Base knew what they were doing by voting for Romney, their religious convictions would prevent them from doing it. 

In fact, if they knew what they were doing, their conscience -- formed by the guiding principles of conservative Christianity -- would recoil at the thought of voting for Mr. Romney. 

More than that, Christian conservatives would actively campaign against the man.

Make no mistake.

I like Governor Romney and consider his politics preferable to almost every other Republican in the party.

Ever since The Tea Party snuffed Senator Dick Lugar in Indiana's primary, Mr. Romney has impressed me as the "best" Republican in the entire electoral field.

Lamentably, the GOP has been overtaken by epistemophobia, and under this banner religious conservatives feel threatened by knowledge. http://www.conservapedia.com/Epistemophobia  

Many contemporary conservatives want to be lied to - want to deny any datum (or data-set) that might threaten their beliefs.

Therein lies the rub. And so, the eagerness with which they deny knowledge -- particularly "inconvenient truths" documented by rigorous research including dependable research into Joseph Smith's life -- reveals their determination to deny anything without first probing "the facts."

Dominated by talk radio bombast - and the elevation of opinion over fact - it  has become commonplace for conservatives to dismiss knowledgeable people as "elitists."

The collapse of rigorous epistemology - and the presumption that this ongoing degradation-of-Truth is inconsequential - is both tragedy and disaster, the kind of tectonic shift that collapses empires.

Aquinas is not just rolling in his grave. He is spinning with enough force that, if harnessed, the planet would enjoy an abundance of clean energy forever.

Every conservative who reads this email will recognize its substantive truth.

But none of them will forward it to anyone on their mailing list. 

Notably, my friends will forward anything we receive from conservatives, but conservatives will forward nothing they receive from us.

This craven complicity in "letting lies stand" begins when people lie to themselves.

It is time for America to catch up with Tommaso d'Aquino's 13th century.

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