I hate agreeing with Trout.
Intellectual honesty is a beautiful, yet sometimes hard thing to come to terms with.
I hate agreeing with Trout.
I had a big conversation about this recently about Joseph Smith. Wasn't he pretty liberal by today's standards?
Gave priesthood to AA.
Ran for President where his platform was to free slaves
Had multiple sexual partners
Made his followers engage in communism for a time (law of consecration)
Tried to control the banks/money of Mormons
Rumors that he allowed women to give blessings (priesthood)
How different would the Church be today if Joseph Smith hadn't been shot in Illinois, but instead led the saints to Utah? Very interesting stuff.
Made his followers engage in communism for a time (law of consecration)
The most important plank in Joseph’s platform concerned the powers of the president. Joseph wanted to give the chief magistrate “full power to send an army to suppress mobs … [without requiring] the governor of a state to make the demand.
We are the same.
That's not possible.
Makes sense to me, tbh.
We are the same.
That's not possible.
We are the same.
That's not possible.
Suicide IS an option.
I was talking to OneBrow.
#wwjd
Even stopped clocks are right twice a day. It doesn't bother me at all.