| Though the Mormon
Church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been
working for many years to be considered mainline Christian, they
have not yet achieved this goal. However they have
been able to achieve the goal to a certain extent, as far as the
general public is concerned. Bible believing Christian's
will never fall for their twisted views and mangled doctrines,
but the general public does. They are able to
accomplish the look and feel of Christianity through their pubic
ad's which can be heard on radio, seen in television
commercials, and brought to your home by seemingly harmless
missionaries. The Mormon's have been working very hard
throughout their beginning to untwist the quagmire of strange
doctrines, false beliefs and outright lies in order to appear
more scriptural and more acceptable.
However, the general public, and even many
Christian's who are unaware of their teachings, realize how
dangerous and how false the Mormon cult is.
The Strange, Cumbersome and Twisted History of the Mormon
Church
Around 100 years ago the public did
recognize their false claims and did try to stop them, charging
them with outright polygamy. In 1844 the founder of the
Mormon cult, Joseph Smith died in a gun battle which had ensued
and the outcome threatened bloodshed between the the armed
Mormon militia of Nauvoo, and the armed forces from surrounding
towns and states. Two years later, in 1846, Brigham Young
led the Mormon people westward in order to escape the armed
conflicts. Later on, in the mid 1950's, the US Army was in
the midst of aggressing Utah in order to extract Brigham Young
as the Governor of that territory. The Utah militia did
not engage the army, nonetheless Mormon's killed over 120
non-Mormons with the aid of their Indian allies. That
battle is known in History as the Mountain Meadows Massacre of
1857. In 1889 Mormon leaders went underground to
hide from Justice when the Untied States Congress declared them
to be outlaws, dissolved the Mormon Church and seized its
property under the auspices of the antipolygamy Edmunds-Tucker
Act of 1887.
In 1890 Congress was writing
legislation to disenfranchise all Mormons in the USA, but ceased
when the President of the Mormon Church, Wilford Woodruff issued
orders instructing believers to obey the law rather than to
continue in the practice of polygamy. This is the
first known public reversal of doctrinal belief whereby the
Mormons took on a more scriptural appearance as far as the
public was concerned. The reversal worked as the Mormon
Church was able to stave off attack by US Congress, and also
became acceptable in the eyes of the general public. The
reversal worked then and it still works for them today as they
continue to make changes to their outward beliefs,
doctrines, writings and teachings. Ever since then the
Mormon Church has been in the public eye and has worked very
hard in it's PR program, to maintain a good public image.
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