Mormon Church Admits Joseph Smith had 40 Wives

[Ultimate Paragon]

http://news.yahoo.com/mormon-church-admits-founder-joseph-smith-had-40-013800819.html

(Reuters) - The Mormon church has said that founder Joseph Smith married about 40 women including a 14-year-old and others who were already the wives of his followers, having publicly portrayed him over the years as lovingly committed to one woman.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has tried to gloss over aspects of its history, including the polygamy practiced by Smith and Brigham Young, who helped found Salt Lake City, Utah, the headquarters of the Mormon church.

"Joseph married many additional wives and authorized other Latter-day Saints to practice plural marriage," a church essay entitled "Plural Marriage in Kirtland and Nauvoo" said, noting that "careful estimates put the number between 30 and 40".

The church has been widely criticized for its treatment of women, black people, who it barred from the higher priesthood until 1978, and gays, who were banned from its temples if they were sexually active.

Smith's wives were mostly between the ages of 20 and 40, but Helen Mar Kimball, the daughter of close friends, was "sealed" to him several months before she turned 15.

One woman is enough.  I can't imagine having to handle 39 others.

[Ironchew]

http://news.yahoo.com/mormon-church-admits-founder-joseph-smith-had-40-013800819.html

(Reuters) - The Mormon church has said that founder Joseph Smith married about 40 women including a 14-year-old and others who were already the wives of his followers, having publicly portrayed him over the years as lovingly committed to one woman.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has tried to gloss over aspects of its history, including the polygamy practiced by Smith and Brigham Young, who helped found Salt Lake City, Utah, the headquarters of the Mormon church.

"Joseph married many additional wives and authorized other Latter-day Saints to practice plural marriage," a church essay entitled "Plural Marriage in Kirtland and Nauvoo" said, noting that "careful estimates put the number between 30 and 40".

The church has been widely criticized for its treatment of women, black people, who it barred from the higher priesthood until 1978, and gays, who were banned from its temples if they were sexually active.

Smith's wives were mostly between the ages of 20 and 40, but Helen Mar Kimball, the daughter of close friends, was "sealed" to him several months before she turned 15.

One woman is enough.  I can't imagine having to handle 39 others.

It's really too bad the LDS church started out in an era of rampant literacy and information sharing. They need to do what Christianity did and impose a dark age for a thousand years so that the evidence of con-artistry mysteriously disappears...

[ironbite]

Ahh the Church of Later Day Con-Men.

Ironbite-oh how I wish Skyfire would come back.

[Ultimate Paragon]

http://news.yahoo.com/mormon-church-admits-founder-joseph-smith-had-40-013800819.html

(Reuters) - The Mormon church has said that founder Joseph Smith married about 40 women including a 14-year-old and others who were already the wives of his followers, having publicly portrayed him over the years as lovingly committed to one woman.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has tried to gloss over aspects of its history, including the polygamy practiced by Smith and Brigham Young, who helped found Salt Lake City, Utah, the headquarters of the Mormon church.

"Joseph married many additional wives and authorized other Latter-day Saints to practice plural marriage," a church essay entitled "Plural Marriage in Kirtland and Nauvoo" said, noting that "careful estimates put the number between 30 and 40".

The church has been widely criticized for its treatment of women, black people, who it barred from the higher priesthood until 1978, and gays, who were banned from its temples if they were sexually active.

Smith's wives were mostly between the ages of 20 and 40, but Helen Mar Kimball, the daughter of close friends, was "sealed" to him several months before she turned 15.

One woman is enough.  I can't imagine having to handle 39 others.

It's really too bad the LDS church started out in an era of rampant literacy and information sharing. They need to do what Christianity did and impose a dark age for a thousand years so that the evidence of con-artistry mysteriously disappears...

1.  The causes of the Dark Ages and Christianity had a tenuous relationship at best.

2.  Christianity also started in a time of rampant literacy and information sharing.

3.  "The evidence mysteriously disappeared"?  Do you also think 9/11 was an inside job?

Ahh the Church of Later Day Con-Men.

Ironbite-oh how I wish Skyfire would come back.

Skyfire sounds like he was quite the character.

[Cerim Treascair]

3.  "The evidence mysteriously disappeared"?  Do you also think 9/11 was an inside job?

Was that SERIOUSLY called for? Shut your fucking mouth.  I'm sick and tired of you, and those like you, running your damn mouth and sniping at will.

[niam2023]

3.  "The evidence mysteriously disappeared"?  Do you also think 9/11 was an inside job?

Was that SERIOUSLY called for? Shut your fucking mouth.  I'm sick and tired of you, and those like you, running your damn mouth and sniping at will.

Take it to Flame and Burn. I'm sure there's a topic there very suited for your inarticulate rage. I don't think telling people to shut up is conducive to discussion.

[Stormwarden]

Hey, anyone see Skyfire elsewhere? I'm rather curious as to how he's handling this revelation. For my part, I was wondering what took them so long. At any rate, it's done now.

[Art Vandelay]

Hey, anyone see Skyfire elsewhere? I'm rather curious as to how he's handling this revelation. For my part, I was wondering what took them so long. At any rate, it's done now.

As I recall, he posts on some Transformers fan site.

[Second Coming of Madman]

The Allspark, if I remember correctly.

[ironbite]

And he's banned from Politics and Religion so it means nothing to bait him

[Sleepy]

3.  "The evidence mysteriously disappeared"?  Do you also think 9/11 was an inside job?

Was that SERIOUSLY called for? Shut your fucking mouth.  I'm sick and tired of you, and those like you, running your damn mouth and sniping at will.

Am I missing something here? This response and UP's response don't seem to go together.

[Old Viking]

Mormons' permitting a man to have multiple wives, and the Muslim promise of 72 virgins in paradise both strike me as very generous; but they suggest a rather tenuous grasp of human physiology.