So, in the last LDS General Conference, a certain man gave a speech condemning the many lies told about LDS founder Joseph Smith. He didnt specify what the lies were, or address them, but insisted the Internet has no truth filter, and that reading material outside of LDS records on Joseph Smith would not yield the truth. I have read these so-called lies (you exmos might get the so-called reference, if not, Ill explain), and I know the myriad things he was talking about. The LDS church, in a matter of only a couple weeks, has now released an essay confirming the various lies about Joseph Smiths polygamy, polyandry, marriage to 14 year-old and up girls, the use of revelations and promises to persuade them, to be true. The essay is relatively forthright and open (it still waffles, and makes some rather unsupported and erroneous claims about the normalcy of marriage at the age of 14 or 15 at the time Joseph Smith was alive), but I find it really odd to have an LDS general authority make a speech decrying the lies, only to have them confirmed by official LDS essays. And this is not even the first time such official LDS.org essays have confirmed so-called lies from the Internet. For instance, the peeping stone in the hat is being shoe-horned into LDS church history for the first time, due to the Internets ability to show people history outside of carefully cultivated prose from the LDS church itself. There are many other examples of the lies turning out to be, who would have thought, TRUE. So whats your stance? What lies was this LDS general authority speaking of in his speech? What makes them lies? What about the lies that are continually being admitted to as truths by the LDS church?
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 15:13:02 +0000
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