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SteelofUtah -> RE: Poly Group raided. (4/9/2008 10:21:18 AM)
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We have been asked to stop discussing UM's period so I will refrain from comments other than I know some of them personally and it is NOT something that is required, it happend yes but NOT regularly in Milinium Park which is a city outside of colorado city it is never allowed at all. I am an hour and a half from colorado city they shop in town regularly I have talked to many of the men and have gotten many clear cut answers to the questions I have asked.
In Construction in Utah you will work both For and With MANY of them. I got to know some I liked and many I didn't so again mind you I am NOT defending them I just like the FACTS to be accurate.
Where you are correct the *F*LDS has only been organized since 1920's Pologamy was practiced by Joseph Smith HIMSELF and is documented in the Doctrines and Covenants and was WIDELY Practiced and is STILL practiced Secretly among MANY of the Regular LDS Persuasion. In fact if go to a Mormon even and are introduced to a Mans Wife and HER Sister chances are he is Married to Both of them. It is a Code that you will recognize among those of the LDS Persuauion in Nephi and Some of the Smaller Towns in Utah it is a very common practice in Cities that have Temples among them or as a Prominant Religious mark.
The Practice of Polygamy was seen as the only way to get to the HIGHEST LEVEL of heaven according to the Older parts or the DaC and even though the current Leaders of the LDS Church have adamently spoken against it there are Many in the LDS Faith (Not Just the FLDS) that believe this was Gods will and Practice in Secret.
Like I said I LIVE around the Polygamists and I deal with them in Business as well as my Private life I know MANY of them. Where your statements DO apply to some, they do not aplly to All or even MOST of them.
The views you have seem to be Media based as everything you have said has been plugged in the media a LOT however if you actually READ the DaC you will see it was not always a BAD practice at one time it had a purpose today it has become a perverse act. Something Sad and abused by those who see that they can abuse it.
I am not attacking You or your Beliefs only showing that there is another point of view.
And I define CULT by Websters Dictionary only which is as follows:
Main Entry:
cult
Pronunciation:
\ˈkəlt\
Function:
noun
Usage:
often attributive
Etymology:
French & Latin; French culte, from Latin cultus care, adoration, from colere to cultivate — more at wheel
Date:
1617
1: formal religious veneration : worship2: a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also : its body of adherents3: a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious; also : its body of adherents4: a system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator <health cults>5 a: great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book); especially : such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad b: the object of such devotion c: a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion Steel
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